iHeartMedia lays off on-air personalities nationwide, including all hosts at Riverside-based 99.1 KGGI

Riverside-based vigor station, 99.1 KGGI, has mislaid its past section on-air host.

Longtime vigor personalities Evelyn Erives, Nick Nack and Garrison King were each chopped from the Inland Empire presumption past week arsenic portion of iHeartMedia’s latest circular of nationalist layoffs. In an interior memo, the media elephantine said it would restructure its vigor programming to amended “leverage” the company’s technology.

iHeartMedia declined to remark connected however galore radical mislaid their jobs, but dozens of on-air and different unit positions person reportedly been chopped crossed the country.

The memo — attributed to Chief Programming Officer Tom Poleman and Ann Marie Licata, the main enforcement of the company’s multiplatform radical — framed the changes arsenic a mode to “move faster and run with greater precision crossed markets,” and to “position america not conscionable to accommodate to the future, but to pb it.”

The cuts are portion of a broader propulsion to trim costs. In May, iHeartMedia launched a caller savings program, acceptable to statesman successful the 2nd fractional of 2026, aimed astatine trimming an further $50 cardinal connected apical of the $100 cardinal successful savings the institution had already announced.

iHeartMedia is the nation’s largest vigor operator, with much than 850 stations crossed 160 markets and a sizable beingness successful Burbank. Its Los Angeles–area stations see KFI-AM 640, KLAC-AM 570, KOST-FM 103.5 and KIIS-FM 102.7.

As the media scenery continues to evolve, the institution has leaned harder into podcasting, location to hallmark shows similar “Stuff You Should Know,” “Questlove Supreme” and “Las Culturistas.”

Last year, iHeartMedia introduced its “Guaranteed Human” campaign, an ongoing pledge that nary iHeartMedia presumption oregon podcast volition diagnostic an AI-generated property oregon AI-generated music.

How that committedness squares with the layoffs is unclear. With stations similar Riverside’s 99.1 present stripped of their section hosts, the institution has said thing astir who — oregon what — volition regenerate them.