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Speaker 1: One more thing a radio more of a radio specific thing.

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But this is also from Digital Musicnews dot com. Hot

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ninety seven introduces new on air hosts after abrupt Ebro

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firing New York listeners give a chilly welcome. Now, you

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might be wondering, depending on where you are, why do

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I care about what goes on at a radio station

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in New York. Well, I'll tell you. Hot ninety seven

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in New York City is the most powerful, most prominent, respected,

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elite hip hop station in the entire country. Hot ninety

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seven is you know you're if you're interested in hip hop,

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even even a little bit, you probably know about Hot

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ninety seven. And so they are again the most powerful

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hip hop station in the entire country. And Ebro, Now

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I did not preread this. I don't know what happened,

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but I'm always very curious what happened to Ebro. I

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know that he was very I recognize this picture. I

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know that he was a prominent figure again in hip hop,

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in radio in New York. He's a big deal. Let's

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see what happened here. So Hot ninety seven introduces a

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fresh group of hosts amid the cancelation of EBRO in

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the Morning, and New Yorkers aren't too happy about it.

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On Thursday, just after announcing the cancelation of Ebro in

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the Morning, New York hip hop station Hot ninety seven

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shared a promotional image on social media introducing a trio

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of new hosts. The posts didn't specify whether the new

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hosts will take over the morning show or when their

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show might launch. Hm The post introduces Rondell Smith, Lana Harris,

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and Million, labeling them as the new Hot ninety seven hosts,

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alongside a coming soon banner, but giving out quickly. The

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announcement followed the cancelation of longtime favorite Ebro in the Morning,

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which was hosted by Ebro Dardin, Laura Styles and Peter

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Rosenberg for years. Commenters on Instagram were decidedly unenthusiastic about

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the news. By the way, Peter Rosenberg will be familiar

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to wrestling fans because he also sometimes he does interviews

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or sits on a panel at you know, WWE events,

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Usually during the pre show you might see him. So

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if you're a WWE fan, you've seen Peter Rosenberg at

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some point, so you know Hot ninety seven kind of

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is or was his day job. But he also is

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involved in WWE as a broadcaster, and you know, and

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he does a lot of a lot of interviews, a

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lot of YouTube content and so forth. So so he

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was part of that team too. So responding to this

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to the announcement, one comment or wrote, congratulations, you played yourself.

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I'll keep listening to podcasts unquote. The announcement of new

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hosts follows a lot of shaky ground at the radio station,

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as the cancelation of Ebro in the Morning has sparked

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a lot of debate among fans and industry observers alike.

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Hot ninety seven is notably not publicly explained decision, but

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Ebro Darden has claimed that his outspoken political views and

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critiques of major institutions may have contributed. Meanwhile, funk Master Flex,

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who briefly filled in during the morning slot after Ebro's departure,

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clarified on social media that it'll still be a while

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before his long term role in mornings will take hold.

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On the former Twitter x, he wrote that while he

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received positive feedback from listeners, his deal for the morning

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show doesn't start until twenty twenty nine. Okay, until then,

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he will remain in his longtime five PM slot twenty

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twenty nine. So he has a deal to take over

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the morning show on Hot ninety seven and twenty twenty nine.

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You know what that reminds me of. It reminds me

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of back when when Jay Leno announced his retirement from

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the Tonight Show the first time. I'm sorry he didn't

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announce his retirement, but NBC was getting ready for what

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they wanted to be his retirement, so they announced five

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years in advance. Five years in advance. They announced that

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Conan O'Brien was going to be taking over the Tonight

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Show in five years, and then, of course five years came,

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Conan took over, and you know, and then it didn't

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work out, and Leno came back, and you know, eventually

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Leno left again and it was Jimmy Fallon. But but

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it just reminds me of that, Like, Okay, so it's

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been established that funk Master Flex has taken over the

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Morning Show, but not until twenty twenty nine, they can't say, hey, Flex,

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maybe we should revisit this, Maybe we should have you

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take over the morning show now, Like, what are you

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doing in other New York related Oh? This, some other this? Oh, actually,

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well this is relevant too for people who are interested

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in politics. This part's relevant in other New York radio shakeups.

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Power one oh five and iHeartMedia announced last week the

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extension of their relationship with Media Mogul and The Breakfast

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Club Charlemagne the God Again. If you're interested in politics

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and political podcasters, you're familiar with Charlemagne. I mean, he's

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not a podcast you know, they do politics on his

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radio show, but you know, but he's become a pretty

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influential guy over the years in politics. The multi year

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agreement will see Charlemagne continue his nationally syndicated show on

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weekdays from six to ten am, as well as weekends

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with The Breakfast Club, alongside co host DJ Envy, Jess

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Hilarious and Lauren L. Rosa. So all right, so Charlemagne's

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not going anywhere, but he's been very, very successful with

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his format. I think he originally was doing more of

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a more you know, hip hop, you know, years ago,

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was doing more just interviews with other figures in hip hop.

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But then eventually it became I think now it's I mean,

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I don't listen to him all the time. I just

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you know, see whatever I see on YouTube. But it

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looks like now it's pretty much all politics, I think

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politics and current events that they do. But they've they've

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been very very successful with that format.