Winners Revealed For 2025 CRS/Country Aircheck Awards

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The winners of the 2025 CRS/Country Aircheck Awards were announced on Friday night (Feb. 21) at the annual New Faces of Country Music dinner.

Big Loud was awarded with the Platinum Label of the Year honor, and the label group’s Stacy Blythe and Jen Danielson also walked away with SVP-VP/National Promotion and Label Streaming Specialist of the Year, respectively. Capitol received the honor of Gold Label of the Year and Big Machine’s Brooke Diaz was named Director/National Promotion of the Year.

Nashville station WKDF took home the Medium Market Station of the Year award, while the station’s Travis Daily was named OM/PD of the Year and Allison Warren tied for Market Manager/GM.

Capitol’s Katie Bright was honored with Regional Promotion honor and iHeartCountry’s Rod Phillips earned National Programmer/Curator.

GrassRoots Promotion’s RJ Jordan won this year’s Independent Promotion Executive award.

2025 CRS/Country Aircheck Award Winners:

Station:
– WXTU/Philadelphia (Large Market)
– WKDF/Nashville (Medium Market)
– WKSF/Asheville, NC (Small Market)

Platinum Label: Big Loud

Gold Label: Capitol

OM/PD:
– Ashley Wilson, WKKT/Charlotte (Large Market)
– Travis Daily, WKDF & WSM/Nashville (Medium Market)
– Kix Layton, WKSF/Asheville, NC (Small Market)

APD/MD:
– Lois Lewis, KNIX/Phoenix (Large Market)
– Billy Kidd, WBEE/Rochester (Medium Market)
– Melissa “Mo” Wagner, WUSY/Chattanooga (Small Market)

SVP-VP/National Promotion: Stacy Blythe, Big Loud

Label Streaming Specialist: Jen Danielson, Big Loud

Director/National Promotion: Brooke Diaz, Big Machine

Market Manager/GM: Nichole Hartman, WUSY/Chattanooga; Allison Warren, WKDF & WSM-FM/Nashville (tie)

Personality/Show:
– Angie Ward, WUBL/Atlanta (Large Market)
– Heather Froglear, KFRG/Riverside (Medium Market)
– Eddie Foxx & Amanda Foxx, The Eddie Foxx Show, WKSF/Asheville, NC (Small Market)

National Personality/Show:
– Katie Neal, Katie & Company, Audacy (Daily)
– “Wayne D” Danielson & Tay Hamilton, iHeartCountry House Party, iHeartMedia (Weekly)

National Programmer/Curator: Rod Phillips, iHeartCountry

Regional Promotion: Katie Bright, Capitol

Independent Promotion Executive: RJ Jordan, GrassRoots Promotion

New Face of Country (Professional): Rachel Elliot, iHeart/Kentucky

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