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Radio 'bloodbath': Clear Channel cuts 3 black female DJs
April 29, 2009
BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA | Sun-Times Staff Reporter
Three black female d.j.'s -- V-103 Radio's midday host Troi Tyler, its evening voice Irene Mojica and WGCI overnighter Ericka "Sundance" Campbell were let go by Clear Channel Communications Tuesday in what some industry observers described as "a bloodbath" in local black radio.
The cuts, among 590 radio jobs the company slashed Tuesday, follow its dropping of V-103's popular Tom Joyner morning show, replaced in March by the Steve Harvey show simulcast on WGCI.
"Like all media companies, Clear Channel Radio has to adjust its business to the realities of the current economy and advertising market," the company said in a statement. "The changes we've made today complete a process begun in January."
Tyler is the sultry voice behind the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. R&B and Old School. Mojica is the flirtatious and comedic diva of soft listening from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., who grabbed headlines when she sued then WGCI owner Gannett Co. for sex and race discrimination in 1990. And Sundance, on from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., had made her mark with a young, hip-hop crowd.
The cuts are effective Wednesday.