Syndication One syndicated radio host Rickey Smiley may have defamed an airport security guard by calling him gay on his show, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor refused to dismiss the guard’s defamation claims against the Dallas radio personality reports Courthouse News Service. He claims Smiley made the remark at the airport, and again on the air, after the guard asked to take a photo of himself with Smiley at Love Field.
Not long after, Smiley spoke of the “the gay security guard” at Dallas Love Field …

According to Urban Radio Nation The Michael Baisden Show has found a new home in Detroit showing up on Radio One urban AC WDMK Kiss 105.9 . The syndicated radio show was dropped from Clear Channel’s WMXD Mix 92.3 in September to make room for local personality Frankie Darcell.

It’s  been rumored for weeks  now it’s official, CBS Radio Atlanta has picked up syndicated radio talkers Al Sharpton and Warren Ballentine. The shows which had been dropped from Radio One Urban AC WAMJ-FM in a series of frequency moves and format flips that left them without a home in the nations 9th largest radio market, will debut Wednesday April 29th on WAOK-AM. After significant protest from listeners regarding the decision to replace the shows on WAMJ, talk quickly sprang up surrounding CBS’s interest in the talkers, particularly after …

After less than a year, the Mo’Nique Show has been cancelled by Syndication One. Details are still coming in but the handwriting was on the wall when after a much heralded debut on KDAY Los Angeles, the show was removed after just four months due to a format shift. The same senario happened in Philadelphia in January leaving the show with less than seven affiliates. Arbitron’s  PPM methodology has not been kind to talk heavy personalities  on Urban music stations, particularly those outside of morning drive leaving new shows like …

*UPDATE* Arbitron’s Portable People Meter methodology is the villain in a petition put together by the Atlanta listeners of Warren Ballentine and Al Sharpton who have been cut at WAMJ-FM. The petition charges that the number of participants in the PPM panel was not representative of the target audience of the two shows and led to the decision to drop the hosts. It also showed a little research on the subject. Here’s the petition. Syndication One talkers Al Sharpton and Warren Ballentine are out as part of  Radio One’s WAMJ …

Buried in the middle of a simple format adjustment story out of  Philadelphia is the news that Syndication One afternoon talent Mo’Nique has been cancelled.  Radio One owned WRNB announced a shift from the traditional Urban AC format to one that focuses on the “R&B of the 90′s and Today” while installing market veteran Lady B as the afternoon talent replacing the syndicated Mo’Nique. Since launching last summer the show has lost two major markets,  Los Angeles at KDAY and now Philadelphia. The show has proved to be less than …

The rumors are rampant as to just what Radio One plans to do on 107.5 in Atlanta after jettisoning the Smooth Jazz WJJZ the other day. This story has ties to syndication because some of the talk involves simulcasting Urban/Talk hybrid WAMJ (102.5). The station features Premiere’s Steve Harvey, ABC’s Micheal Baisden and the two Syndication One produced Superadio syndicated talkers Al Sharpton and Warren Ballentine. The talk/music hybrid has been wildly successful for Radio One despite being on the signal challenged Class A move in. The real test will …

Syndication One’s Rickey Smiley and his cast of characters has been moved into wake up at Radio One WERQ Baltimore replacing the The Big Phat Morning Show. The move has The Rickey Smiley Morning Show up to 25 stations nationally for Syndication One. President of Programming Gary Bernstein commented, “The Rickey Smiley Show is just starting to hit its stride and there will be significant enhancements that will make the program even more of a must have for any Urban station looking for dominating ratings both 18-34 and 18-49″. Big …