Syndication One syndicated radio talker Warren Ballentine is out at CBS Radio’s WAOK (AM 1380) Atlanta. There is no official word on why or who may be his replacement in the 10AM-1PM time period. This is not the first time that the show has been shuffled about in the Atlanta market, it was dropped by Radio One owned WAMJ-FM,  picked up by CBS and lost an hour to the now defunct Gail King show. Here’s …

Howard Stern returned on Friday to the station that helped launch him as a star in national syndicated radio. In a rare 30 minute on air interview with  WYSP-FM 94.1 Philadelphia’s Spike Eskin, Stern was the last guest on WYSP before CBS Radio flipped the format to Sports Talk, simulcasting it with sister WIP-AM and ending it’s 30 year run as a music station. During the interview Stern praised the station that was the first …

Who said Ryan Seacrest was the “hardest working man in media?’ CBS Radio syndicated radio personality and WXRK (92.3Now FM) New York morning star Nick Cannon, who also hosts the TV talent show, America’s Got Talent, has joined the cast of the new NBC-TV sitcom Up All Night  in a recurring role. The new fall sitcom, which debuts September 14th-following the season finale of America’s Got Talent- stars Christina Applegate as a TV talk show …

After 13 years Ace & TJ can no longer call Charlotte their radio home. The Benztown Radio Network syndicated radio morning show failed reach an agreement on a new contract with CBS Radio WNKS (Kiss 95.1) Charlotte, ending the relationship with a station that had been their home base for over a decade. The morning duo did their last show for “Kiss” Friday morning, however their exit doesn’t affect the programs syndication outside …

CBS Radio has named America’s Got Talent host and 92.3 Now New York morning show personality Nick Cannon as the host of a weekly countdown show to be syndicated on CBS Radio stations nationwide.  Cannon’s Countdown will be produced in two versions for both CHR Pop/Rhythmic and Urban stations with a mix of music and celebrity interviews. The four-hour and three-hour shows produced by Cannon’s Ncredible Entertainment will be syndicated by Citadel …

Syndication One talker Warren Ballentine lost a portion of his 3 hour syndicated radio show in Atlanta this week when CBS Radio WAOK (1380 AM) dropped the first hour of his daily show to make room for Westwood One’s Gayle King Show . The loss of the 10A-11A hour is a setback for Ballentine who fought to get back into the Atlanta market after Radio One Urban AC WAMJ-FM dropped both Ballentine and Al Sharpton …

Tom Leykis has officially launched  his new company The New Normal with its first original content, the “Gary and Dino Show,” a podcast featuring the  former producers of his CBS Radio/Westwood One show, Gary Zabransky and Dean Dimilio.  The new show is the first in what Leykis promises will be a series of audio content produced to be distributed across several media platforms. Leykis engineer Art Webb and veteran syndicated radio affiliate …

All Access is reporting this morning that Oscar nominee and former syndicated radio host Mo’Nique has been offered the job as the morning show replacement for Donnie Simpson at CBS Top 40/Rhythmic WPGC Washington.  The site says sources claim that there have been talks aimed at bringing Mo”Nique in to replace the recently retired Simpson and that over that last weekend the station had been running promo announcements for “Mo’Nique’s Morning Takeover.  WPGC afternoon driver …

Inside Radio is reporting that Premiere Radio Networks offered to clear Nick Cannon  in afternoon drive “on a significant number of their stations,” according to Robert Eatman, who represents Cannon. Then the agent arranged a meeting with CBS. The rest is recent history.  Eatman says of the meeting with CBS,  “Nick was well prepared and blew CBS away with his knowledge of radio and his enthusiasm.”  CBS is hoping Cannon will …

CBS Radio has hired Nick Cannon to host morning drive 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.  on 92.3 “Now” WXRK-FM  in New York starting in January. Cannon, currently host of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, is the 2nd big talent CBS has hired in the past two weeks after announcing it was adding Carson Daly to mornings at it’s  Los Angeles station, KAMP-FM, “AMP Radio.”
Since CBS launched 92.3 Now in March, the Top 40 station has climbed …