Gibson out, Allen in as WIKY/South Central Media shakes up news department
JDTVB has confirmed this morning that there has been a personnel change in the news department at Evansville's #1 radio station, WIKY (104.1 FM).
John Gibson, who served with the station for more than two decades, is no longer with WIKY's parent company, South Central Media.
No reason was given for Gibson's departure.
A new voice in the news department - although certainly a familiar one to listeners of WIKY - is longtime air personality Rick Allen. I'm told that he has been made a part of the news team "effective immediately."
I will keep you posted as more information becomes available.
Comments
To the management of WIKY - you should be ashamed of yourself for treating a senior member of your staff so poorly after 20 some years of being able to count on him to be there for you... day in, day out.... year in and year out. While I can only suspect that your age discrimination against John is illegal I can assure you that it is - immoral. You should be ashamed of yourselves for treating John in such a shoddy and transparently financially driven manner. I hope the cheaper labor costs are worth it. Unfortunately, we, the audience will be the worse for it.