In a very smart move, Clear Channel-owned WVAZ-FM (or V103) has renewed the syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show in a multi-year deal. There was speculation that WVAZ would can the show and replace it with a local morning show. The TJMS and Radio One would have suffered a big blow if WVAZ didn’t renew the show. Chicago is the second-largest […]
Desperate star meets desperate medium… Clear Channel owned WKQI-FM in Detroit DJ Big Boy started a “Britney suicide watch” and was taking calls on from listeners on when Britney will kick the bucket. The only question now is, when Big Boy’s employment at WKQI will kick the bucket… Mojo, the station’s morning DJ, ripped the stunt on the air this […]
In a surprise move, Clear Channel’s KBIG-FM in Los Angeles has dumped its longtime Hot Adult Contemporary format for an Adult Hits one, putting them in direct competition with CBS’ KCBS-FM (Jack 93.1) and Emmis’ KMVN-FM (Movin’ 93.9) Core artists include Beyonce, Christana Aguliera, and John Mayer. Longtime radio personality Charlie Tuna (who is also a notable voice-over talent) was […]
Sun-Times relationship expert Laura Berman is joining B96’s Eddie & JoBo & Erica morning show (scroll down) every Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. to dispense advice (just be thankful it’s Laura Berman doing this and not Chris Berman.) Also on the contemporary-radio beat, a new night guy has landed at KISS (WKSC-FM) – Billy Hammond has landed the late night […]
In a rare Saturday column today, Phil Rosenthal interviews new WGCI morning star Steve Harvey, who is coming back to Chicago to do three shows from their studios this coming week. Harvey tells it like it is when it comes to working in TV. But is radio any better? Harvey thinks so. But don’t ask those who work in the […]
At the end of the 4:30 p.m. newscast on WMAQ-TV yesterday, Bob Sirott (a former DJ himself) addressed the firing of Howard McGee at WGCI during his One More Thing segment and talked about radio’s problems in Chicago, especially when it comes to replacing local talent with out-of-town syndicated programming. Though he missed two items (Harvey’s show is based in […]
As reported here and in Feder’s column on July 6, Howard McGee is out at WGCI-FM as morning man and will be replaced by Steve Harvey’s syndicated program effective August 1 (Yes, the program starts on a Wednesday, in the middle of the week.) McGee’s last program was today. Also out are Nikki Woods and executive producer Art Porter. Leon […]
More information on Howard McGee’s axing at WGCI came out in a place you wouldn’t expect it: a party. It was McGee who made an unexpected appearance at Elroy Smith’s going away bash at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Chicago Friday night, honoring the soon-to-be OM at Radio One’s urban AC and gospel stations in Philadelphia for his fifteen years […]
Elroy Smith, who recently resigned as program director at Clear Channel’s WVAZ-FM (V103), has now got a new gig: Operations manager of Radio One-owned WRNB-FM, an urban AC-formatted station, and WPPZ-FM, a gospel-formatted station, both in Philadelphia.
Robert Feder in today’s Sun-Times is reporting that “Crazy” Howard McGee will be dropped as morning host at Clear Channel urban contemporary station WGCI-FM and being replaced by Steve Harvey’s syndicated morning show. The move is expected to take place sometime around August 1. Harvey’s program had been airing on Crawford’s Urban AC outlet WSRB-FM, but Premiere Radio Networks, a […]
Elroy Smith, one of Chicago’s – and the nation’s most successful urban radio programmers – has resigned from Clear Channel Chicago after a fifteen-year run in the Windy City. Smith ran WGCI-FM until last March, when he was replaced. Smith was previously WVAZ-FM’s program director.
Providence Equity Partners purchased the Clear Channel TV station group for $1.2 billion, in a deal that should close by this fall. Among the stations included in the deal are top-rated WKRC-TV (CBS) in Cincinnati, WAWS (Fox)/WTEV (CBS) in Jacksonville, and WOAI-TV (NBC) in San Antonio.
Post No. 200! The Sun-Times Robert Feder reports that Urban AC WVAZ-FM (or V103) “dodged a bullet” from the FCC and renewed the station’s license after it rejected a complaint from a Joliet listener who claims that her family was slandered and harassed by the syndicated Tom Joyner radio show.
In a move that been universally panned by the blogging and message board community (except this blog, which thinks this is a good idea – Wait a minute. Hold up. Am I praising something Clear Channel is doing? I must be high…), Clear Channel has decided to split the management at top-rated Urban Contemporary outlet WGCI-FM, and successful Urban AC […]
I guess the wicked weather isn’t the only thing hammering Chicago… another person got canned today which scores the hat trick – this time it’s CoCo Cortez’s afternoon show at WLIT-FM. These things do come in threes…
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