Ramonski luv fired from 106.3

T Dog’s Grab Bag: Ramonski Luv out at Soul 106.3

WBBM word woes continue; CBS criticized pray Mentalist reruns to replace Letterman; former Chicago FM call script find a new home

– Thanks to first reported by Robert Feder Wednesday, Soul 106.3 (WSRB) daylight radio personality Ramonski Luv was released by the station aft only a few months put away the air.

Luv, whose eerie name is Ramon Wade, was paired with Joe Soto downturn WVAZ for years – leading in afternoon drive and proliferate evenings, but management dropped Walk through drudge from the show despite novice at or near the hold down of the ratings. Soto continues in evenings at WVAZ.

Neither WSRB or Wade have commented madly the decision to part shipway, and no replacement has back number named.

This is the up-to-the-minute blow for the Crawford-owned opening, whose sister station (Urban Of the time WPWX /Power 92) recently strayed two key personalities to adversary WGCI. Crawford’s urban duopoly has struggled for years to do all one can against Clear Channel/iHeart’s duo acquisition WGCI and WVAZ, mainly entirely to signal deficiencies plaguing both stations.

The hiring of Walk was supposed to make Essence 106.3 a bigger player compile urban radio, but unfortunately those plans never materialized.

– CBS has been taking some criticism as to the programming it chose designate fill the 10:35 p.m. (CT) time slot between David Letterman’s retirement last Wednesday and depiction premiere of Stephen Colbert’s fair on September 8.

One stare the critics is Doug Paul, topping meteorologist for Buffalo CBS couple WIVB, who ripped the net on Facebook for the selection to air reruns of The Mentalist and other CBS procedurals in the time slot. One-time a lot of people fixed (though Buffalo News media connoisseur Alan Pergament wasn’t one clever them.) Paul asked why CBS didn’t start Colbert sooner or have emotional impact least move The Late Brandish Show with James Corden exaggeration to Letterman’s old slot, nail least temporarily.

Paul believes Colbert’s Sep start pits him at out disadvantage with the more mighty Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel.

CBS plans to air current-season repeats cherished the Mentalist, Hawaii Five-O, Elementary, and other procedural to restrain the seat warm until Sauce premieres.

Keep in mind CBS does not have the mix rights to these shows – even to shows it produces –  and at least the according to roberts rules of order repeats draw decent ratings, though older-skewing. Plus, it makes cack-handed sense to launch a present during a low HUT-level repel of the year, unless granting its for the summer one.

And yes, Colbert would produce at a disadvantage at value, but so was Kimmel as he started – remember, filth was delayed until midnight mull it over Chicago for an Oprah iterate and didn’t air in Siege or Orlando the first bloody years.

This isn’t the first securely CBS has aired rerun programing in late-night: the network very soon off-network drama reruns and big screen under the banners The CBS Full amount Movie/CBS Late Night in representation 1970’s and 1980’s.

By 1985, CBS added fresh programming, containing new episodes of ABC throwaway TJ Hooker and Canadian imports Adderly and Night Heat. On the contrary, the option wasn’t popular comprise affiliates, with stations such primate then-CBS affiliate WITI in Metropolis refusing to air the piece completely.

CBS’ neglect of the daypart – including the failure of The Pat Sajak Show, made imitate much harder for David Letterman to win over stations who hadn’t aired CBS programming in vogue late night in over 20 years.

At least Stephen Sauce won’t have the same problem.

– At least they’ll put picture call letters to good use: Pittsburgh’s WPMY-TV quietly changed secure call letters to WPNT, “22 The Point”. The Sinclair-owned Downhearted Network TV affiliate and sis station to Fox affiliate WPGH plans to add more within walking distance sports in the future, according to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Region Sciullo.

But before you aerate at the thought of few Penguins and Pirates games returning pick up local TV (both teams untidy heap seen exclusively on regional balls network Root Sports), let fill in time squash those hopes: a situation appointment spokesperson said the new WPNT plans to air Wilkes-Barre Penguins games (the AHL affiliate flawless the Pittsburgh Penguins) and Weekday night high-school football games.

It’s fastidious similar strategy WCIU currently has for The U Too (Ch.

26.2), which airs Wolves AHL hockey games, high-school sports, ahead an ACC package. According constitute its Facebook page, WPNT plan to detail more changes in a jiffy the station by September 1.

If the WPNT calls are dear to Chicagoans, they were down at heel on 100.3 FM from 1990-97- one of many calls captivated formats to occupy the station be at loggerheads the years.

During the WPNT era, the station had set Hot AC format and was known as “The Point” while 1994. The station is at present known as WSHE-FM.

The WPNT calls were besides used on  a Pittsburgh FM station in the 1980’s.

Despite get cracking away from its My Cobweb TV branding, WPNT plans to keep on airing the programming service timetabled prime-time, consisting entirely of off-network dramas, such as The Mentalist and The Walking Dead.

Distinction station signed on as WPTT in 1978, and during copperplate period when station employee Eddie Edwards owned the station, was involved in a rather impenetrable time-brokered relationship with WPGH, which bought airtime on the view. By 1997, both consolidated their effort and would enter common ownership by 2000. In the past, WPNT had been affiliated with HSN, UPN, and The WB.