Steve Harvey Morning Show Out at WAMO-FM/Pittsburgh

RADIO ONLINE | Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | 10:28pm CT

Steve Harvey

Syndicated Steve Harvey's morning show will no longer air on WAMO-FM (W297BU) in Pittsburgh, reports the New Pittsburgh Courier. Harvey will be replaced with Premiere-syndicated Urban morning show, "The Breakfast Club," featuring personalities Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy. The show will air weekday mornings from 6-10am.

"It's our goal at WAMO to keep things fresh, new, and bring excitement to the City of Pittsburgh. The Breakfast Club is the number one hip-hop radio show in the country," WAMO Operations Manager Louis Wingfield told the New Pittsburgh Courier. "It would only be right if we add this... to give Pittsburgh something to be excited about. Aside from the controversy, they bring so much light to what's going on in our culture."

Harvey's show with co-hosts Shirley Strawberry, Nephew Tommy and J. Anthony Brown had aired on WAMO-FM from September, 2006 until the station's closure in 2009. Eventually, Harvey's show returned to the lineup, though the music played on Harvey's show is targeting an Urban Adult audience, while WAMO is hip-hop.

"Steve Harvey was not canceled because they did anything wrong at all," added Wingfield. "We have truly enjoyed our partnership with Steve Harvey. It's just a matter of changing things up. We don't like to stay the same and keep doing things exactly the same. We are confident that the City of Pittsburgh will truly enjoy The Breakfast Club."

Other changes at WAMO include the removal of the "Sweat Hotel" show, hosted by Keith Sweat, which aired Sundays from 7-midnight. In its place is "Sunday Night Slow Jams with R-Dub," from 8-midnight. "The Quiet Storm" slow jams show with R-Dub will air Monday to Thursday nights from 10-midnight.

WAMO has also hired a new Program Director, Jonathan Steele, known on-air as DJ Miracle. He'll be WAMO's new afternoon personality from 3-7pm.