Reach Media sues over pulled Joyner show.

story by Inside Radio

Clear Channel’s “V-103” WVAZ, Chicago dropped Joyner’s show last March after 13 years making way for Steve Harvey. In a suit filed in Dallas County District Court, Reach Media says Clear Channel violated its contract by yanking the show two months early and seeks more than $800,000.

Reach’s suit says it should receive $116,644 in affiliation fees for May through the end of this year and $694,416 in lost net advertising revenue the Chicago Tribune reports. That includes $426,144 for the daily show and another $268,272 for Joyner’s weekend highlights program.

In a statement Reach Media says it was “given no notice” of WVAZ’s plans to drop Joyner’s show. Joyner found another way to air in the market where he famously once commuted to each day from Dallas by airplane, earning him the “Fly Jock” nickname. In April, Reach Media struck a brokerage deal buying time on Crawford Broadcasting’s “Soul 106.3” WSRB to clear the show in Chicago.