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9/25: Rashan Ali, Emperor Searcy moved out of mornings
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In late August, Hot 107.9 got rid of Griff, Maria More and E4Real for budgetary reasons. Rumors at the time was that Rickey Smiley would become the syndicated morning show while Rashan Ali and Emperor Searcy would take over mid-days and afternoons, respectively.
But for the past three weeks, Rashan and Searcy have held the fort in the mornings as a shrunken A Team. Today, the Hot 107.9 Web site now has Rashan indeed doing middays and Emperor Searchy doing afternoons, where he used to work. The changes happen on Sept. 29.
This morning, Hot is merely running taped bits from Rashan and Searcy announcing their new gigs next week. But no word on the morning show! For Rashan, this would be a bit of a come down after working mornings for years, but at least she’s still got a job in tough economic times.
I checked last week with Smiley’s manager and he said a deal had not yet been signed, although Smiley’s syndicator is Radio One, the same owner as Hot 107.9. Smiley’s name is not on the Web site. There is no morning show listed at all. I’ll check in later this morning to see what is going on there and update this entry if I find out anything specific but I anticipate this is the big announcement the station is teasing this morning that will be made Friday at 8:30 a.m. Steve Hegwood, the operations manager at Radio One, declined to comment.
-Shaffee Abraham of Project 9-6-1’s morning show is one of three finalists to the the public announcer for Atlanta Thrashers’ games. He would replace Steve Craig, formerly of 99X and now in New York as mid-day DJ at WRXP-FM.
-I’m going to be following Marcus Lehman, an Emory Med School grad, on “Survivor.” Jeff Probst has already targeted him as a player in more ways than one. The latest season starts tonight at 8.
Here’s a story I wrote about him.
-“Dancing With the Stars” voters decided Ted McGinley was not worthy so he was the second to be booted Wednesday night despite a decent performance and higher judge scores than Cloris Leachman or Kim Kardashian. But given some thought, it’s not a surprise. Kardashian has an inexplicable following thanks to her reality show, getting the young un’s to text and vote. Leachman? Come on! She’s 82 years old and she’s still elegant and funny and ambulatory. How can you not vote for her at this stage?
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September 25, 2008 11:42 PM | Link to this
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