Beasley Media ended 2019 with a number of budgetary cuts at its Detroit cluster.

Leading the departures is longtime Rock 101.1 WRIF Program Director Mark Pennington. Pennington joined WRIF in 2001 as APD/MD and was promoted to Program Director in 2008. Pennington has also served as APD of WLVQ Columbus and WMMS Cleveland in his career. Jerry ‘JT’ Tarrants, Program Director of Classic Rock 94.7 WCSX, will add the programming leadership role at WRIF in addition to WCSX.

Also departing WRIF is midday host Anne Carlini. Carlini has been with WRIF for 30 years with the past ten in middays. She began her career in Flint and previously worked at 98.7 WLLZ before joining WRIF.

At WCSX, midday host Juline Jordan exits after a little over two years in the daypart. Jordan is best known for her 18 year run as producer and co-host of Peter Werbe’s “Nightcall” weekly late night call-in show on WRIF from 1998 until its cancellation in 2016.

DJ Dinero exits as evening host and mixer at Classic Hip-Hop “105.1 The Bounce” WMGC. Dinero was one of the original staffers of the station following the format’s launch in 2016 after previously working at iHeartMedia Hip-Hop 97.9 WJLB.

Also exiting were a number of office staffers in the traffic, continuity and billing departments.