Ebro and Peter Rosenberg out at Hot 97 | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: One more thing a radio more of a radio specific thing.

0:03 Speaker 1: But this is also from Digital Musicnews dot com. Hot

0:06 Speaker 1: ninety seven introduces new on air hosts after abrupt Ebro

0:10 Speaker 1: firing New York listeners give a chilly welcome. Now, you

0:13 Speaker 1: might be wondering, depending on where you are, why do

0:15 Speaker 1: I care about what goes on at a radio station

0:17 Speaker 1: in New York. Well, I'll tell you. Hot ninety seven

0:21 Speaker 1: in New York City is the most powerful, most prominent, respected,

0:26 Speaker 1: elite hip hop station in the entire country. Hot ninety

0:30 Speaker 1: seven is you know you're if you're interested in hip hop,

0:37 Speaker 1: even even a little bit, you probably know about Hot

0:39 Speaker 1: ninety seven. And so they are again the most powerful

0:43 Speaker 1: hip hop station in the entire country. And Ebro, Now

0:48 Speaker 1: I did not preread this. I don't know what happened,

0:50 Speaker 1: but I'm always very curious what happened to Ebro. I

0:55 Speaker 1: know that he was very I recognize this picture. I

0:58 Speaker 1: know that he was a prominent figure again in hip hop,

1:02 Speaker 1: in radio in New York. He's a big deal. Let's

1:06 Speaker 1: see what happened here. So Hot ninety seven introduces a

1:09 Speaker 1: fresh group of hosts amid the cancelation of EBRO in

1:12 Speaker 1: the Morning, and New Yorkers aren't too happy about it.

1:15 Speaker 1: On Thursday, just after announcing the cancelation of Ebro in

1:18 Speaker 1: the Morning, New York hip hop station Hot ninety seven

1:20 Speaker 1: shared a promotional image on social media introducing a trio

1:24 Speaker 1: of new hosts. The posts didn't specify whether the new

1:28 Speaker 1: hosts will take over the morning show or when their

1:31 Speaker 1: show might launch. Hm The post introduces Rondell Smith, Lana Harris,

1:38 Speaker 1: and Million, labeling them as the new Hot ninety seven hosts,

1:44 Speaker 1: alongside a coming soon banner, but giving out quickly. The

1:48 Speaker 1: announcement followed the cancelation of longtime favorite Ebro in the Morning,

1:51 Speaker 1: which was hosted by Ebro Dardin, Laura Styles and Peter

1:55 Speaker 1: Rosenberg for years. Commenters on Instagram were decidedly unenthusiastic about

2:00 Speaker 1: the news. By the way, Peter Rosenberg will be familiar

2:03 Speaker 1: to wrestling fans because he also sometimes he does interviews

2:09 Speaker 1: or sits on a panel at you know, WWE events,

2:13 Speaker 1: Usually during the pre show you might see him. So

2:14 Speaker 1: if you're a WWE fan, you've seen Peter Rosenberg at

2:18 Speaker 1: some point, so you know Hot ninety seven kind of

2:22 Speaker 1: is or was his day job. But he also is

2:25 Speaker 1: involved in WWE as a broadcaster, and you know, and

2:30 Speaker 1: he does a lot of a lot of interviews, a

2:31 Speaker 1: lot of YouTube content and so forth. So so he

2:34 Speaker 1: was part of that team too. So responding to this

2:40 Speaker 1: to the announcement, one comment or wrote, congratulations, you played yourself.

2:44 Speaker 1: I'll keep listening to podcasts unquote. The announcement of new

2:47 Speaker 1: hosts follows a lot of shaky ground at the radio station,

2:50 Speaker 1: as the cancelation of Ebro in the Morning has sparked

2:52 Speaker 1: a lot of debate among fans and industry observers alike.

2:56 Speaker 1: Hot ninety seven is notably not publicly explained decision, but

3:01 Speaker 1: Ebro Darden has claimed that his outspoken political views and

3:06 Speaker 1: critiques of major institutions may have contributed. Meanwhile, funk Master Flex,

3:12 Speaker 1: who briefly filled in during the morning slot after Ebro's departure,

3:16 Speaker 1: clarified on social media that it'll still be a while

3:19 Speaker 1: before his long term role in mornings will take hold.

3:22 Speaker 1: On the former Twitter x, he wrote that while he

3:26 Speaker 1: received positive feedback from listeners, his deal for the morning

3:29 Speaker 1: show doesn't start until twenty twenty nine. Okay, until then,

3:34 Speaker 1: he will remain in his longtime five PM slot twenty

3:39 Speaker 1: twenty nine. So he has a deal to take over

3:41 Speaker 1: the morning show on Hot ninety seven and twenty twenty nine.

3:45 Speaker 1: You know what that reminds me of. It reminds me

3:47 Speaker 1: of back when when Jay Leno announced his retirement from

3:52 Speaker 1: the Tonight Show the first time. I'm sorry he didn't

3:54 Speaker 1: announce his retirement, but NBC was getting ready for what

3:58 Speaker 1: they wanted to be his retirement, so they announced five

4:01 Speaker 1: years in advance. Five years in advance. They announced that

4:06 Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien was going to be taking over the Tonight

4:08 Speaker 1: Show in five years, and then, of course five years came,

4:11 Speaker 1: Conan took over, and you know, and then it didn't

4:15 Speaker 1: work out, and Leno came back, and you know, eventually

4:18 Speaker 1: Leno left again and it was Jimmy Fallon. But but

4:21 Speaker 1: it just reminds me of that, Like, Okay, so it's

4:24 Speaker 1: been established that funk Master Flex has taken over the

4:27 Speaker 1: Morning Show, but not until twenty twenty nine, they can't say, hey, Flex,

4:33 Speaker 1: maybe we should revisit this, Maybe we should have you

4:36 Speaker 1: take over the morning show now, Like, what are you

4:38 Speaker 1: doing in other New York related Oh? This, some other this? Oh, actually,

4:45 Speaker 1: well this is relevant too for people who are interested

4:47 Speaker 1: in politics. This part's relevant in other New York radio shakeups.

4:51 Speaker 1: Power one oh five and iHeartMedia announced last week the

4:55 Speaker 1: extension of their relationship with Media Mogul and The Breakfast

4:59 Speaker 1: Club Charlemagne the God Again. If you're interested in politics

5:04 Speaker 1: and political podcasters, you're familiar with Charlemagne. I mean, he's

5:07 Speaker 1: not a podcast you know, they do politics on his

5:10 Speaker 1: radio show, but you know, but he's become a pretty

5:15 Speaker 1: influential guy over the years in politics. The multi year

5:18 Speaker 1: agreement will see Charlemagne continue his nationally syndicated show on

5:22 Speaker 1: weekdays from six to ten am, as well as weekends

5:26 Speaker 1: with The Breakfast Club, alongside co host DJ Envy, Jess

5:29 Speaker 1: Hilarious and Lauren L. Rosa. So all right, so Charlemagne's

5:33 Speaker 1: not going anywhere, but he's been very, very successful with

5:35 Speaker 1: his format. I think he originally was doing more of

5:40 Speaker 1: a more you know, hip hop, you know, years ago,

5:42 Speaker 1: was doing more just interviews with other figures in hip hop.

5:47 Speaker 1: But then eventually it became I think now it's I mean,

5:50 Speaker 1: I don't listen to him all the time. I just

5:51 Speaker 1: you know, see whatever I see on YouTube. But it

5:54 Speaker 1: looks like now it's pretty much all politics, I think

5:57 Speaker 1: politics and current events that they do. But they've they've

6:00 Speaker 1: been very very successful with that format.