Filling a slot that has been vacant for a few months, the Westwood One syndicated, WBLS New York based Wendy Williams Experience has tapped Ken Simmons as its new producer. Simmons is a former senior producer at X-Radio Networks/Dial-Global and MJI Broadcasting.

KDAY-FM  Los Angeles began dismantling it’s mostly syndicated weekday lineup by dropping Syndication One’s “The Mo’Nique Show” last month. This week the proverbial other shoe dropped as the Westwood One syndicated “The Wendy Williams Experience” was also removed from KDAY. Newly signed station consultant Steve Smith has moved the station in a music-intensive direction, but kept “The Steve Harvey Morning Show” and “The Michael Baisden Show” to anchor morning and afternoon drive. KDAY market manager/GM …

According to Mediaweek, the Queen of Media and Westwood One syndicated afternoon star, Wendy Williams has leaped another hurdle in her quest for media domination. Fox Television Stations has committed to air “The Wendy Williams Show” across 18 markets starting next year. Fox SVP Frank Cicha says “Everything about the Wendy preview clicked for our stations, from conception to promotion to hitting the air.” Wendy is a twenty year radio veteran who knows where her …

It’s just been announced that WZTF in Florence, SC has replaced “The Wendy Williams Experience with the “Doug Banks Show”. This is the fourth defection from the show since Westwood One picked up the syndication rights at the beginning of the year. The big announcement that the show was added by KDAY in Los Angeles in middays has been followed by subtractions, including WUSL, Philadelphia. A few of the other stations that have dropped …

WBLS New York personality Wendy Williams, who had been syndicated by Superadio, will move over to Westwood One on Feb. 4. As part of the move The Wendy Williams Experience will be picked up by Magic Broadcastings KDAY/Los Angeles. The switch brings Wendy back to Los Angeles where she was heard overnights on Radio One urban KKBT (100.3 the Beat) until it transitioned to urban AC as KRBV (V100) in 2006. I know …