WJR, Detroit Cuts Sean Baligian Loose
Detroit sports talk personality Sean Baligian exits Cumulus Media’s news/talk WJR where he’d been co-hosting the nightly “Sportswrap” show with Lomas Brown. The Detroit News’ Tony Paul reports that
Baligian is the victim of budget cuts at the station. Baligian has worked at several Motor City sports talk stations during his career and has been with WJR for the past seven years in various capacities. Baligian, who says he might be done with radio, tells the News that getting let go is hard to put into words. “The worst part is what it does to your family. I think they’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and that sucks. You feel like a failure… I know the life that I chose. And I mean it when I say I’m not bitter. This is the road I decided to go down.” Meanwhile, Lomas Brown is hosting the “Sportswrap” program solo.
exits his role as director of programming for the Los Angeles operations that includes news/talk KRLA AM 870 “The Answer,” Christian talk KKLA-FM, and Christian contemporary KFSH-FM. Tyler tells TALKERS magazine he’s ready to apply his 20-plus years of director of programming and on-air experience in Los Angeles to his next successful situation. You can contact him at: 
10:00 pm program for the past 13 years. In a Facebook post, Mangino calls the KDKA gig his “dream job” and says, “I couldn’t be more thankful to program director Marshall Adams and GM/VP Michael Young, who brought me on at KDKA; to Jim Graci, who kept me around all of those years and Dave Labrozzi & Michael Spacciocoli, who helped keep my dream alive. And finally, there’s PJ Kumanchik, who was integral in bringing me to KDKA, he was there during my entire ride and in the process became one of my dearest friends.”