Comedian Sheryl Underwood ,  known as one of the most highly educated and brilliant stand up comics in the business has abruptly ended her run as a featured player on the Reach Media syndicated radio Tom Joyner Morning Show and has joined the Premiere Radio Network morning offering the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Underwood will be a weekly contributor on the show and  will serve as “guest host” when Harvey is away. In addition, she will continue to host The Sheryl Underwood Show On Jamie Foxx’s The Foxhole that …

Reach Media syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner will broadcast his morning show from a Detroit high school this Monday to announce his support for the Detroit school district’s updated enrollment campaign.
Monday’s  show will be aired from Renaissance High School with financial manager Robert Bobb as one of Joyner’s guests. They will discuss Detroit Public Schools’ 2010 “I’m In DPS 2.0″ campaign. Joyner also will speak with students at Mumford High School.
Comedian and activist Bill Cosby visited Detroit last year and gave his support …

Reach Media’s nationally syndicated radio Tom Joyner Morning Show planned to broadcast live from earthquake-stricken Haiti today but only made it as far as Miami. Joyner told his listeners Friday morning that he got as far as Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, but was unable to get to Port-au-Prince in time to do his show which airs from 5 a.m.-9 a.m. CST.  Joyner said: “We didn’t make it to Haiti, but we’re on the air.”  The Haitian capital city’s airport, damaged in Tuesday’s quake, is congested with relief flights and air …

The word from a reliable source has The Rickey Smiley Morning Show picking up at least five significant markets this month. Smiley who is setting Miami on fire (#1 18-34 by 5 share points) is also tied with Tom Joyner in the Adult 25-54 demo. We’ll let you in on the new markets as soon as they are announced.

Barack Obama continues to solidify his administrations reputation as the most media savvy and accessible in Presidential history. His call in yesterday to the nationally syndicated radio Tom Joyner Morning Show to address safety concerns regarding the H1N1 vaccine was also used as an opportunity to speak directly to the African American community about Health Care reform,  jobs and the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. The Presidents use of radio wasn’t relegated to syndicated radio either, “Barry from DC” also made a call from the Oval Office to local Washington …

Rodney Ho of the Atlanta Constitution Journal is reporting that Reach Media syndicated radio morning legend Tom Joyner has signed a deal to remain on Atlanta’s WALR Kiss 104.1 for the next two years. The exact length of the agreement wasn’t revealed but Joyner, who joined the station in 1995 will continue through 2011.

Syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner will appear in a state appeals court in Columbia, SC on Thursday (10/14) to seek posthumous pardons for two great-uncles who were put to death for what he says was a crime they didn’t commit. Thomas and Meeks Griffin were executed on September 29, 1915 one day after their arrest and conviction for the slaying of a man in South Carolina. Joyner learned of the story when Harvard scholar Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, announced the results of genealogy research conducted on Joyner’s family as part …

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Reach Media has  filed a suit against Clear Channel over WVAZ cancellation of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and replacing it with the Steve Harvey Morning Show back in March. The suit filed  by Reach in Texas’ Dallas County District Court, alleges breach of contract by Clear Channel and claims that because the show was dropped without notice, Reach is owed more than $800,000 in affiliation fees and net advertising revenue lost from May until the end of this year.  After being replaced …

Syndication One, a joint venture between Radio One and Reach Media, names Tanita Myers director of operations. She’s spent the last six years as director of syndicated radio operations for Reach, working with The Tom Joyner Morning Show. Myers will oversee operations for The Yolanda Adams Morning Show, The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, CoCo Brother Live, TD Jakes’ “Empowering Moments,” The Al Sharpton and Warren Ballentine talk programs, and other shows. Myers is a 17-year radio veteran who was instrumental in the launch of Syndication One and a former executive …

RadioTime Inc., a developer of technology for finding and listening to radio online, has released the first RadioTime.com Top 19 Programs, a list of the most listened-to programs on RadioTime.com for the month of June 2009. The inaugural list is dominated by well known syndicated radio talkers but also shows how RadioTime enables listeners to discover lesser-known shows airing around the world.The five most popular programs are “Rush Limbaugh,” “Steve Harvey,” “The Savage Nation,” “Glenn Beck” and “Laura Ingraham.” Dan Halyburton President of RadioTime said; “Listeners use RadioTime to find their …