As Danbury Mayor-elect Roberto Alves prepares to take over leadership of the city, he is brushing side fears of a major shakeup involving jobs. While Alves says City Hall staffers’ jobs aren’t ‘on the line,’ he does say some changes are coming. Mayor-Elect Alves will take office officially on December 1st as Danbury’s first Democratic mayor in 22 years. Lately, he has been spending a lot of time on the phone reassuring the various department heads that they still have a job… while at the same time admitting that some jobs are on the line. Alves has already named key members of his administration, and he says he will have the mayor’s office in place on day one, with a full staff ready to go well before December 1st.
Ed Histed
Ed launched his radio career in 1975 and has spent more than five decades in the broadcasting industry. During that time, he has served in a wide range of roles including Air Personality, News Director, Sales Manager, Operations Manager, and General Manager at numerous radio stations in various markets across the country. Beyond on-air and management responsibilities, Ed has also worked extensively on the technical side of broadcasting. His background includes RF engineering and information technology, with particular experience configuring digital automation systems and remote voice-tracking platforms used by stations across the country. Ed was also among a select group of industry professionals invited by Google to its California headquarters following the company’s acquisition of Scott Studios. He was one of just 12 broadcasters nationwide chosen to participate in discussions and provide input during the design and rollout of Google’s digital broadcast automation platform. Although the majority of Ed’s career—spanning roughly four decades—was rooted in music radio, he transitioned into news and information programming in 2012. He says the move into spoken-word broadcasting was a natural evolution after decades of experience in multiple areas of the industry.