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| Gary Shelton |
Tampa
Bay Times sportswriter Gary Shelton has left sports talk radio station WHFS-FM,
fired after completing Thursday’s show.
WHFS program director John O’Connell confirmed he would not
return to the program, reports Eric Deggans
at tampabay.com.
“We have parted ways,” O’Connell said, adding that Pawlowski
would host the show on his own for the foreseeable future. “That’s all I can
say.”
Shelton
also wasn’t sure why the station, known as Sportsradio 98.7 the Fan, decided to
fire him. “In the past, they had mentioned they needed someone (in the
broadcast booth) from Monday to Friday,” the sportswriter said, adding that his
earliest talks with the station outlined how much he must travel for his
newspaper work.
Shelton was in the station’s
inaugural lineup when it debuted back in August 2012, as owner CBS Radio
flipped the format of hits radio station WSJT-FM, creating the first FM sports
talk station in the
Tampa
Bay area market.
But WHFS has endured upheavals as original program director
Mike Pepper was reassigned and then left the company. By the beginning of February, the station was
airing national broadcaster Jim Rome at noon and had rolled back its concept of
around the clock live and local sports talk.
“It was a wonderfully positive experience the ended badly,” Shelton said.
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