Jim Hamm has been appointed as general manager of Atlantic Radio for Rogers Media. He will head up the company’s new FM radio stations, including CKNI-FM 91.9 in Moncton, CHNI-FM 88.9 in Saint John NB and CJNI-FM 95.7 in Halifax. Rogers received the licences last November from the CRTC. Most recently, Hamm was the general manager for the Rogers Sudbury Radio Group, where he oversaw the day-to-day operations of CJRQ-FM, CJMX-FM and CIGM-AM. In addition, he held the position of programming manager for the Rogers Ontario North cluster of 11 stations in Sudbury, North Bay, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie and Orillia. He is from New Brunswick. As well, Rogers has announced the members of its Atlantic Canada radio advisory board: Halifax lawyer John Fitzpatrick (chair), entertainment and media law expert and an architect of the Radio Starmaker Fund Chip Sutherland, retired dentist Susan Barry, and Atlantic Lottery Corp. corporate strategist Adrienne O’Pray.

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