Springfield IL Radio: Ray Lytle OUT At WTAX, WYMG

Ray Lytle

Ray Lytle, who has had an afternoon talk show on WTAX 1240 AM / 107.5 FM and was also on the air mornings playing music on Classic Rock WYMG 100.5 FM in Springfield, ILhas been fired from Saga Communications' Capitol Radio Group.

“Ray’s a talented guy, but it was a business decision and we wish him the very best,” Charlie Ferguson, vice president and general manager of the group, told The State Journal-Register Monday. “If we have an opening and opportunity that Ray fits,” he added, “we will most certainly give him first consideration.”

Lytle agreed that the termination was “just business.”

“It was the most pleasant termination I’ve ever had,” said Lytle, 48, of Chatham. “I loved every second of my time there, I really did.”

He had gone to the station in 2013 after being let go from his talk-show job at WMAY-AM.

Saga Communications last week announced the sale of IRN to the Illinois Policy Institute. That left WTAX as just one station on the IRN network.