{"id":12664,"date":"2016-11-03T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12664"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:00:16","slug":"v103-vows-carry-herbs-legacy-troi-tyler-ramonski-luv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/11\/03\/v103-vows-carry-herbs-legacy-troi-tyler-ramonski-luv\/","title":{"rendered":"V103 vows to 'carry on Herb\u2019s legacy' with Troi Tyler, Ramonski Luv"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Troi<\/a>

<\/a> Troi Tyler, Herb Kent and Ramonski Luv<\/p><\/div>\n

Two longtime colleagues of the late, great Herb Kent are stepping in to take over the popular weekend programs formerly hosted by \u201cThe Cool Gent\u201d at iHeartMedia Radio urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7.<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting this weekend, Troi Tyler, who had been Kent\u2019s primary fill-in, will host \u201cThe Saturday Morning Wake-Up Club\u201d from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Ramonski Luv will host \u201cHerb\u2019s Place\u201d from noon to 7 p.m. Sundays.<\/p>\n

The Radio Hall of Famer and icon of the African-American community died <\/a>October 22 at 88. Kent had spent the last 27 of his record-setting 72 years in radio at V103, where he became synonymous with \u201cOld School and Dusties\u201d music. Kent hosted his final Saturday morning show just hours before he died.<\/p>\n

\"Both Troi Tyler and Ramonski Luv are perfectly suited to carry on Herb\u2019s legacy,\u201d Derrick Brown, director of urban programming for iHeartMedia Chicago and program director of V103, wrote in a memo announcing the moves Thursday.<\/p>\n

Tyler, former V103 midday personality who joined iHeartMedia predecessor Clear Channel Radio in 1994 and now works weekends at V103, also serves as station manager of WCSU,<\/a> the student station of Chicago State University streamed on iHeartRadio\u2019s Internet radio platform.<\/p>\n

Ramon Wade, known on the air as Ramonski Luv, has been a fixture of urban radio in Chicago for more than 30 years. He recently returned to V103 as a fill-in host after brief stints with Internet radio and Crawford Broadcasting urban adult-contemporary WSRB FM 106.3.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, V103 ranks second on weekends with a 6.8 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 724,200.<\/p>\n

Here is the text of Brown\u2019s memo to staff:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good morning. I want to share some important and positive developments relative to our weekend programming following Herb Kent\u2019s passing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Moving forward, V103 will maintain Herb\u2019s legacy of \u201cOld School & Dusties\u201d on Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons.\u00a0Effective, Saturday, November 5th, Troi Tyler will host the \u201cSaturday Morning Wake-up Club\u201d from 8am-noon.\u00a0 Troi was Herb\u2019s primary fill-in and I am confident in Troi continuing his tradition.<\/em>
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\nAs we all aware, Herb was a bigger-than-life character, and who better to carry the baton from him on Sundays but Ramonski Luv?\u00a0Effective, Sunday, November 6th from noon-7pm, Ski will host \u201cHerb\u2019s Place,\u201d maintaining Herb\u2019s Sunday features and adding a new one, \u201cGone, But Not Forgotten,\u201d saluting classic artists who are no longer with us.\u00a0 Of all our air-staff, Ski is probably second to Herb in the number of community and artists relationships he\u2019s cultivated over the years.\u00a0Plus, we know Ski\u2019s a master showman in Herb\u2019s tradition.<\/em>
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\nMusically, \u201cHerb\u2019s Place\u201d will be similar to the program Herb nurtured, but will evolve slightly to be more \u201870s-80\u2019s-based.\u00a0 As further recognition of Herb Kent\u2019s influence, one \u201860s or early-\u201870s song per hour will be imaged as \u201c. . . another Deep Dusty from the Herb Kent collection.\u201d<\/em>
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\nBoth Troi Tyler and Ramonski Luv are perfectly suited to carry on Herb\u2019s legacy.\u00a0 Feel free to congratulate and encourage them both as they grab Herb\u2019s baton and continue to run with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Derrick D. Brown<\/em>
\nDirector of Urban Programming Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two longtime colleagues of the late, great Herb Kent are stepping in to take over the popular weekend programs formerly hosted by \u201cThe Cool Gent\u201d at iHeartMedia Radio urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7. Starting this weekend, Troi Tyler, who had been Kent\u2019s primary fill-in, will host \u201cThe Saturday Morning Wake-Up Club\u201d from 8 a.m. to... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12668,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions\/12668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}