Charlotte Radio: Radio One, Romona Holloway Part Company

Romona Holloway

For the first time in more than 23 years, Ramona Holloway — longtime co-host of WLNK-FM’s old “Matt & Ramona Show” — is not working in a job for a radio company. 

The Charlotte Observer reports Holloway, 58, announced this week on social media that she had been laid off from her job as community affairs manager for Radio One Charlotte, which owns WLNK and several other area stations. She also no longer will make guest appearances twice a week on 107.9’s “The Morning Mix with Matt Harris & Liz Luda,” something Holloway had been doing since she moved into the community affairs role in the spring of 2023.

Holloway said by phone Thursday that when she was abruptly let go from the company during a meeting with her boss on Tuesday morning, she was told the decision was being made due to “budget cuts.” The position was originally created for her and, she said, “it was just, they felt, time to uncreate it, to save money.”

During the roughly 15 months Holloway had spent in the role, she said she spearheaded or pursued partnerships on behalf of the company — among other community entities — Breast Cancer Awareness Month; the Walk to End Alzheimer’s; Village Heartbeat’s Bridge to Better Mental Health program; Gaston Community Foundation; and the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission’s alcohol prevention and rehabilitation programs. “I really wanted to make it work. And it didn’t,” Holloway told the Observer.