{"id":24252,"date":"2020-01-27T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=24252"},"modified":"2020-01-27T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:00:37","slug":"v103-moves-sweat-hotel-evenings-wgci-big-95-5-keeping-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/01\/27\/v103-moves-sweat-hotel-evenings-wgci-big-95-5-keeping-local\/","title":{"rendered":"V103 moves \u2018The Sweat Hotel\u2019 to evenings; WGCI, Big 95.5 keeping it local"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Keith Sweat<\/p><\/div>\n

Keith Sweat, the famed R&B recording artist and radio personality, is moving to the evening shift on iHeartMedia urban adult-contemporary WVAZ 102.7-FM.<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting tonight, his Atlanta-based show will air from 7 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday on V103. Since 2014 \u201cThe Sweat Hotel\u201d<\/a> has been airing from midnight to 5 a.m.\u00a0It's syndicated by iHeartMedia subsidiary Premiere Networks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKeith is one of the most creative, prolific, and emotional entertainers I\u2019ve known,\u201d Derrick Brown, vice president of urban programming for iHeartMedia Chicago, said in a statement. \u201cHe brings these same qualities to his radio show and I\u2019m pleased we\u2019re able to share \u2018The Sweat Hotel\u2019 with a wider Chicagoland audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

As evening host, Sweat is replacing Chris Michaels, who was one of three local personalities cut from iHeartMedia Chicago stations in sweeping companywide layoffs <\/a>on January 14. (In 2004, it was the other way around when Michaels replaced Sweat, who then moved to overnights on V103.)<\/p>\n

Glenn Cosby has been filling in nights at V103 since Michaels left.<\/p>\n

Despite the layoffs of Trace Hamilton of country WEBG 95.5-FM<\/a> and DJ MoonDawg (Michael Muniz) of urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5, <\/a>evenings on those two iHeartMedia stations will remain locally hosted rather than syndicated.<\/p>\n

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Lance Houston<\/p><\/div>\n

At Big 95.5, program director Lance Houston is expected to move from middays (noon to 3 p.m.) to evenings (7 p.m. to midnight), replacing Hamilton. To accommodate the move, Lisa Dent will expand her midday show on the country station to five hours \u2014 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Afternoon host Brooke Taylor will be on from 2 to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

For the time being, nights on WGCI are being rotated among three part-timers \u2014 Zach Boog, Trey White and Jamal Smallz.<\/p>\n

James Howard, senior vice president of programming for iHeartMedia Chicago, said he hopes to name a permanent replacement for DJ MoonDawg soon and confirmed that nights on WGCI would also remain local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Sweat, the famed R&B recording artist and radio personality, is moving to the evening shift on iHeartMedia urban adult-contemporary WVAZ 102.7-FM. Starting tonight, his Atlanta-based show will air from 7 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday on V103. Since 2014 \u201cThe Sweat Hotel\u201d has been airing from midnight to 5 a.m.\u00a0It's syndicated by iHeartMedia... 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\/24252"}],"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=24252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24262,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions\/24262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}