Tampa's Nancy Alexander Out At WMTX-FM

Nancy Alexander might be the Tampa Bay area’s best-known female radio personality, bringing her energetic irreverent personality to bear hosting local TV and radio shows since the 1980s — when she first appeared as “Nancy in the Sky,” a traffic reporter on WRBQ-FM (104.7).

But Alexander won’t have a broadcast job in the Tampa Bay area for the first time in many years, following the decision by Clear Channel Radio Monday to remove her and co-host Kurt Shriner from the afternoon show at WMTX-FM (100.7), according to a story by Eric Deggans at tampabay.com.

Officials at Clear Channel declined to say why they took Alexander off the air or who would succeed her in the station’s 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekday timeslot. The host herself said she was blindsided by the news and unable to explain the move, which will see her leave WMTX after more than a dozen years as its highest-profile local host.

“I wasn’t let go — my contract is not being renewed,” said an emotional Alexander, when reached at her home Monday. “I can’t make sense of it.”

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