However, by 1984, he had become the top radio host in Sacramento, California. Thomas, who arrived at WVRI the first of the year from New Orleans and hardly had time to warm a mike, has taken a job at WRBQ-FM (104.7) in Tampa.After breaking into a radio career in the 1970s, Rush Limbaugh was fired for being too controversial as a news commentator. – Brian Thomas, the former WOMX-FM (105.1) program director and air personality who just landed back in town at WVRI-FM (101.1), is pulling up stakes again. weeknights on stations in Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami. Daniels’ show, now dubbed The Sports Nut, airs 6 to 10 p.m. – Marc Daniels, sports talk radio host on WWNZ-AM (740) and WWNZ-FM (104.1) debuted on Paxson Broadcasting’s statewide talk radio network Monday. The stations also announced that they has expanded Sal Tee’s doo-wop show, Solid Gold Reunion, by one hour. Simulcast stations WTRR-AM (1400) in Sanford and WKIQ-AM (1240) in Eustis this week picked up Larry King’s afternoon talk show. – Central Florida author Nora DeLoach is reviewing the work of minority authors and interviewing new writers in Literature in Review, which airs Saturdays from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Saturdays, books and stories by and about black Americans are read as family entertainment. – In Montsho Storytime, which airs from 12:30 to 1 p.m. 13, Minority Forum, which airs from 1:30 to 3 p.m., will be broadcast live from the Black History Month Festival at Lorna Doone Park in Orlando. Those featured include poet Maya Angelous and former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. as part of the weekly program Minority Forum. – Black Achievers is an eight-part series airing in half-hour segments each Wednesday at 9 a.m. WPRD-AM (1440) is celebrating Black History Month in a series of programs designed to promote awareness of black issues and personalities. Write Paxson at Paxson Broadcasting, 18401 U.S. In the meantime, however, if you like listening to WEZY, you might let him know. Orlando and Lakeland stand to suffer the greatest loss in radio options should Paxson decide to change the format. And the area already has one strong easy listening signal in WDUV-FM (103.3), which comes in from Sarasota. 2 ranked station in Lakeland, but competing in Tampa and St. “We’re kind of a dinosaur,” said WEZY general manager, Leroy Bradley. Easy listening formats have become a dying breed as more and more stations switched to formats targeted at adults aged 25 to 54 – the group favored by advertisers. The Federal Commmunications Commission will likely approve the sale in a few months, at which time Paxson plans to build a new tower that will, in effect, give the Tampa Bay area a new radio signal by the year’s end.Ī number of people in the Orlando area can’t pick up the Lakeland station, but for the older adults who do, it’s been an FM haven away from the contemporary, often loud alternatives on other Central Florida radio stations. That could well mean the clock is ticking for this largely instrumental format that has been on the air for 25 years. In his announcement, company chairman Lowell “Bud” Paxson praised WEZY’s easy-listening format but said research later in the year would determine if the music should be changed. This week Paxson Broadcasting of Clearwater announced it had reached an agreement with Root Communications to buy WEZY-FM (94.1) in Lakeland. Easy listening music could become even more of an endangered species in Central Florida.
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