Industry News Bits 1-12-16

HisAir.Net will be in Nashville for the NRB 2016 Feb 23-26. We would love to meet our readers so stop by our booth (#240) in the exhibit hall and say hello. We look forward to seeing you in Nashville…

NewLife FM and Life Radio Ministries Inc. has appointed Michael B. Shelley as executive assistant to the president. He has served as station manager for WJYO/Ft. Myers, director of media services for Dr. Charles Stanley’s In Touch Ministries in Atlanta, and for the past nine years as assistant station manager at WRAF/Toccoa Falls, Ga. Shelley has been in Christian radio for three decades and is a member of the National Religious Broadcasters and currently serves as a member of the board of directors. Shelley has also served on the NRB Radio Committee and as first-vice chairman of the NRB Southeast Chapter. NewLife FM operates two FM radio stations serving the Atlanta and Macon, Ga., metro areas… 

WMSL/Athens, GA has re-branded to “88-9 The Reach”.  WMSL is a 20k station covering Athens, Ga., and a large portion of northeast Georgia that signed on the air in November of 1987 playing traditional Christian music. It switched formats January 2014 to CCM. Visit their website here…