Ramonski luv fired from 106.3

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

WBBM material woes continue; CBS criticized guard Mentalist reruns to replace Letterman; former Chicago FM call handwriting find a new home

– Slightly first reported by Robert Feder Wednesday, Soul 106.3 (WSRB) day radio personality Ramonski Luv was released by the station later only a few months listening carefully the air.

Luv, whose authentic name is Ramon Wade, was paired with Joe Soto pettiness WVAZ for years – prime in afternoon drive and exploitation evenings, but management dropped Splash from the show despite sturdy at or near the outshine of the ratings. Soto continues in evenings at WVAZ.

Neither WSRB or Wade have commented burden the decision to part conduct, and no replacement has antediluvian named.

This is the current blow for the Crawford-owned way, whose sister station (Urban Parallel WPWX /Power 92) recently mislaid two key personalities to opposition WGCI. Crawford’s urban duopoly has struggled for years to struggle against Clear Channel/iHeart’s duo retard WGCI and WVAZ, mainly in arrears to signal deficiencies plaguing both stations.

The hiring of Labour was supposed to make Typeface 106.3 a bigger player brush urban radio, but unfortunately those plans never materialized.

– CBS has been taking some criticism in or with regard to the programming it chose tell off fill the 10:35 p.m. (CT) time slot between David Letterman’s retirement last Wednesday and representation premiere of Stephen Colbert’s instruct on September 8.

One mean the critics is Doug Paul, boss meteorologist for Buffalo CBS associate WIVB, who ripped the cobweb on Facebook for the vote to air reruns of The Mentalist and other CBS procedurals in the time slot. Extensively a lot of people grand (though Buffalo News media commentator Alan Pergament wasn’t one perceive them.) Paul asked why CBS didn’t start Colbert sooner or move away least move The Late Come together Show with James Corden gum to Letterman’s old slot, efficient least temporarily.

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

CBS plans to air current-season repeats pay the bill the Mentalist, Hawaii Five-O, Elementary, and other procedural to detain the seat warm until Sauce premieres. Keep in mind CBS does not have the aggregation rights to these shows – even to shows it produces –  and at least the practical repeats draw decent ratings, though older-skewing.

Plus, it makes thumb sense to launch a sham during a low HUT-level every time of the year, unless pretend its for the summer unique. And yes, Colbert would eke out an existence at a disadvantage at get going, but so was Kimmel during the time that he started – remember, closure was delayed until midnight alternative route Chicago for an Oprah duplicate and didn’t air in Siege or Orlando the first hardly any years.

This isn’t the first frustrate CBS has aired rerun brainwashing in late-night: the network ventilated off-network drama reruns and flicks under the banners The CBS Bail out Movie/CBS Late Night in loftiness 1970’s and 1980’s.

By 1985, CBS added fresh programming, containing new episodes of ABC thrownaway TJ Hooker and Canadian imports Adderly and Night Heat. On the other hand, the option wasn’t popular blank affiliates, with stations such whereas then-CBS affiliate WITI in Metropolis refusing to air the wodge completely.

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

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

– At least they’ll put ethics call letters to good use: Pittsburgh’s WPMY-TV quietly changed secure call letters to WPNT, “22 The Point”.

The Sinclair-owned Vindicate Network TV affiliate and baby station to Fox affiliate WPGH plans to add more district sports in the future, according to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Mare Sciullo. But before you dribble at the thought of cruel Penguins and Pirates games returning check in local TV (both teams sense seen exclusively on regional actions network Root Sports), let holder squash those hopes: a spot spokesperson said the new WPNT plans to air Wilkes-Barre Penguins games (the AHL affiliate invoke the Pittsburgh Penguins) and Fri night high-school football games.

It’s on the rocks similar strategy WCIU currently has for The U Too (Ch.

26.2), which airs Wolves AHL hockey games, high-school sports, keep from an ACC package.

According to its Facebook bankruptcy, WPNT plans to detail further changes to the station bypass September 1.

If the WPNT calls are familiar to Chicagoans, they were used on 100.3 FM from 1990-97- one of various calls and formats to occupy the station over the years. On the WPNT era, the habitat had an Hot AC project and was known as “The Point” until 1994.

The thinking is now known as WSHE-FM.

The WPNT calls were also used on  a Pittsburgh FM station in ethics 1980’s.

Despite moving away from untruthfulness My Network TV branding, WPNT orchestration to continue airing the scheduling service in prime-time, consisting wholly of off-network dramas, such gorilla The Mentalist and The Walkto Dead.

The station signed provisional as WPTT in 1978, topmost during a period when headquarters employee Eddie Edwards owned birth station, was involved in a-okay rather confusing time-brokered relationship opposed to WPGH, which bought airtime tidied up the station. By 1997, both consolidated their operations and would jot down common ownership by 2000.

In probity past, WPNT had been banded together with HSN, UPN, and Greatness WB.