The Sunday night spot on WTAM 1100 quietly went from the “listen to this show to get your medulla straight!” admonitions of Art McKoy, to the everything’s-coming-up-roses for Cleveland attitude of Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed. Reed took the reins in late November.
“Simply put, I was fired,” says community activist and Black on Black Crime founder McKoy, who hosted the weekly talk show for six years. Reed “Six years ago I took a zero rating show and made it number one. The show was hot. I had thousands of surburbanites as well as people in the hood listening.
“Suburbanites is what I call all white people,” he says.
This article appears in Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2011.
sounds like flash mob to me; guess your next stint will be in prison were you actualy belong??????????
Art was the man. Too bad WTAM kisses Mayor Jacksons A**. Art McCoy had a handle on the real issues. Reed tries to paint a rosy, positive picture of Cleveland. McCoy just discussed the truth and tried to help make it better. He “kept it real” and really connected with the listeners, even the suburbanites. I would prefer to “keep it real” instead of having Reed painting rosy. One thing’s for sure about Cleveland, it aint rosy.