After nine and a half years in the 11am-2pm slot at Cox Media Group Hot Talk “102.5 The Bone” WHPT Sarasota/Tampa FL, the Roger & JP Show exited the station following their show on Thursday, December 12.
Hosts Roger Luce and John ‘JP’ Parise will continue to host mornings at Cox’s Classic Rock 102.3 WBAB Babylon NY where they have been since January 2000. Luce first started at the station in 1984 as a weekend and then overnight host. He then moved to nights and then mornings at WCCC Hartford in 1986 before returning to WBAB as Research Director and then afternoon host in 1990. Parise was working in promotions at WBAB when he was added to the morning show with Luce in 2000. The show added the Tampa midday slot in July 2015. The duo had signed four year contract extensions with the company in February 2023.
The station has yet to announce its plans for the midday show although best-of’s are expected to run through the end of the year. Local producer/co-host Monika Madison will remain with the cluster as a traffic reporter.
In making their announcement on-air on Thursday, the duo noted that they were informed that their departure would happen when Cox made their company-wide layoffs in June.
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com