Radio and dance music veterans Brett Holcomb and Art Rooney announce that their weekly mix show will be rebranded as The Drop. The 2-hour mix show which is mixed by Rooney and hosted by Brett Holcomb highlights the dance and EDM hits of the 90s and early 2000s.
“We realized that if we wanted to take the show to the next level and the name change was needed,” said Holcomb. “Any dance or EDM would recognize what The Drop is referring to.”
In addition to the rebranding of the show, The Drop will also be available as a one-hour show and will be looking into getting it set up with a syndication company. The Drop is featured on Mix933fm.com and partsavers.com. It is also available as a podcast on most podcast platforms
Art Rooney began his Djing career in the mid-‘80s, playing at some of the local nightclubs on the Jersey shore area of New Jersey. After winning a DJ Spin-off contest at Hollywood Nightclub he began to work in all of the major clubs in the Seaside Heights area (made famous by MTV ‘s Jersey Shore). In 1995 Art moved to Southwest Florida and had quickly become a well-known area DJ. While working in the nightclubs in Ft Myers asked to do Mix Shows for Power 93.5. Art eventually ended up on the 100,000-watt WINK FM taking the Saturday night daypart from a 0 to a 30 share with women 24 to 34 (Arbitron rating book – spring 2000 – Ft Myers /Naples) and was one of the first Mix Show DJs on Sirius Satellite Radio up until Sirius and XM merged. Art was heard for years Saturday Nights on WSGL 104.7 The Mix Naples/ Ft Myers. Art is currently heard on Rhythm 105.9 KRYC Sacramento Cal, and the BDS Reporting Internet Station Mix933fm.com.
Brett Holcomb has been programming radio since the late ’90s, starting at WDBK in southern New Jersey. It was there that he made a name for himself and was featured in Dance Music Authority magazine as a programmer to watch. In 2005, he was hired to be the Operations Manager & Program Director of Z88.9 WBZC in south jersey. In 2006 he flipped the format to dance music and help establish the station as one of the top dance music stations in the country. Brett has also worked in sports radio at WIP in Philadelphia and was the assistant program director at ESPN 981/850 AM WRUF in Gainesville, where he oversaw the Florida Gator radio broadcasts.
Interested affiliates can reach out at thedropmixshow@gmail.com.
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com