The syndicated Bobby Bones morning show adds another major market as Clear Channel Country 98.7 WMZQ Washington, DC will pick up the show starting Monday, March 10.
WMZQ will slide current morning host Boxer into middays while co-host Aly Jacobs will host news and traffic reports during Bones’ show. Current WMZQ midday host Jenni Chase will move to sister AC 97.1 WASH-FM.
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Washington, D.C. announced today new programming for 98.7 WMZQ, Today’s Country – Washington D.C. Award-winning Country morning program The Bobby Bones Show will join 98.7 WMZQ beginning Monday, March 10, 2014.
WMZQ will broadcast The Bobby Bones Show weekday mornings from 6-10:00 a.m. ET. The morning show will feature on-air personalities Bobby Bones, Lunchbox and Amy, with special guest appearances from the biggest names in Country music straight from Nashville. The Bobby Bones Show, which recently celebrated its one-year anniversary on Country radio with the 2014 Academy of Country Music Award for “National On-Air Personality of the Year,” will entertain Washington, D.C., listeners with a unique mix of pop-culture, news and music.
Beginning March 10, Boxer from The Boxer Show will move to Middays 10 a.m.-3 p.m., while co-host Aly Jacobs will remain on-air from 6-10:00 a.m. with traffic and weather updates and current Midday talent Jenni Chase will move to WASH-FM, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Adult Contemporary (AC) Station with the same duties.
Below is the updated weekday programming lineup:
The Bobby Bones Show 6 – 10:00 a.m.
Boxer 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Michael J 3 – 7:00 p.m.
Paul Donovan 7:00 p.m. – midnight
CMT After MidNite with Cody Alan Midnight – 6:00 a.m.“No one is closer to the heartbeat of Nashville than Bobby Bones,” said Meg Stevens, Vice President of Programming/WMZQ Program Director. “WMZQ listeners will enjoy waking up with the award-winning Bobby Bones Show and his unique and entertaining insight on Country music, and so much more!”
Bobby Bones stated, “I have been a fan of WMZQ for quite some time, so it’s an honor to join their amazing lineup. I can’t wait to be on the air in Washington, D.C.!”
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This is an inevitable reality that I think even Dave Hughes pondered months ago. It first came to fruition when I saw CBS morning news spotlight and the dc anchor at the end says she wants to listen and the reply is “he isn’t on mornings here.” I had a feeling after that, the boxer show would be reexamined. I finally got to listen for the first time this week, it’s pretty decent but they better not mess with Laura or delmont from the other station. Now here’s my prediction,its also an inevitable reality now that CC’s chess piece was played, that cumulus will respond with a move to Nash fm. Personally i think breaking the simulcast would make a better sales combo, but another reality is that its hard to have a combo when 107.3 sounds like an ac station in an identity crisis. It just makes more sense to have nash on 107.3 and just give the frequency a makeover because its national image is thrown right out there. as opposed to their under the table Atlanta syndication initiative that they have during the duration of the station, which has done nothing but showed listeners, this fresh fm station sounds pretty much like mix used to be! though for what its worth, I think Adam Bomb is talented, but hot 99.5 owns that demographic and they can thank Kane for that.