Steve Harvey Replaces Tom Joyner In Chicago (Photos)
Posted on March 24, 2009
Chicago is nixing Tom Joyner’s syndicated morning show after 13 years on WVAZ-FM 102.7! And Joyner is being replaced by Steve Harvey’s “The Steve Harvey Morning Show” from WGCI-FM 107.5 starting Tuesday.
Steve Harvey will simulcast on both stations until March 31. Clear Channel did not say Monday what its plans are after that for WGCI-FM.
“Tom Joyner has been a great partner with V103 for the past 13 years, making it difficult to part ways,” WVAZ-FM program director Derrick Brown said. “We appreciate all Tom’s hard work and wish him continued success.”
WGCI-FM has aired this incarnation of Harvey’s syndicated show since 2007. But he has deep roots in the Chicago market, beginning his radio career in 1996 at WGCI-FM as a replacement for Joyner, whose decades-long connection began when legendary local radio executive Marv Dyson hired him at Johnson Publishing’s WJPC.
“Steve Harvey is an entertainment and marketing juggernaut,” Brown said. “There are very few entertainers who have successfully tackled radio, TV, film, stage, online and publishing. … Being a ‘King of Comedy,’ nobody can beat Steve being funny.”
Tom Joyner made this statement:
“We’ve had great times in Chicago and we’ll be there soon to officially thank the thousands and thousands of you who made us what we are, and will be here with us as we take this to another level,” Joyner wrote. “We got where we are by knowing who you are, what you want and by super-serving our audience, just like my mentor [Johnson Publishing founder] John H. Johnson taught me to do. This world is changing, but doing the right thing never does, and we will continue to do what we’ve always done for the African-American community.”
So what do you guys think of the switch?
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Load of crap!!!!!
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Wow, that a huge mouth full of teeth.
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Steve Harvey is a snake. Even Bernie Mac talked about how he tried to use politics to get the role that Bernie had in Oceans 11. I don’t trust Steve Harvey. He replaced Tom once, and now this.
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I will missed Tom Joiner, I don’t listen to Steve Harvey on the radio, I prefer Steve on t.v……. Hopefully, Tom will be back it doesn’t make since for Steve to AIR two radio stations, that’s STUPID!
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This takes away from the variety of radio personalities that gave us options in the morning on the way to work.
I truly hope this is an April Fools joke.
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Dumb-ass Derrick Brown. Gives all the “reasons” for this stupid decision: marketing magnet, juggernaut, etc. Leaves out the most important: 10 million listeners will now have to use the computer to hear Tom Joyner. No problem. Derrick will be out of a job soon!
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