The new corporate role? It was management’s idea. (She’ll appear as a guest on Harris’s new show twice a week, and continue podcasting with him.) To her surprise, however, Radio One bent over backward to keep her in the family, even if it meant a significant reduction in her presence on the air. In fact, she says, she had already started looking for other work. Holloway says Harris was the first person she told about her intention to leave the morning show, back in early February, and she fully expected that after talking to the station bosses about the decision next, she would no longer have a job. You don’t often see teams that have successfully navigated this business break up because of good things.” “It’s usually, you know, somebody got sick, management got angry, somebody messed up, the relationship fell apart,” she says.
That came after navigating personal and professional trials over the past two-plus years that left her “exhausted.” Because of changes in my life that I’d like to make,” the 57-year-old Holloway told the Observer in an extensive interview about how she landed her new job as community affairs manager for Radio One Charlotte, which owns WLNK and five other area stations. It’s all absolutely, positively fantastic. To maybe even phrase the word as a question.īut the longtime on-air partner to Matt Harris is here to tell you: It’s not just all good. As soon as the surprise announcement was made last Monday that Charlotte radio station The Mix 107.9 (WLNK-FM) would air the final installment of “The Matt & Ramona Show” the next day because one half of it was stepping away from her microphone, it would have been easy to jump to conclusions.Īnd there certainly might have been an inclination to hold your breath a little if given a chance to offer “congratulations” to Ramona Holloway after hearing the news.
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