D/FW: Kannon Joins KVIL As New Morning Host

Mike Kannon, who goes by Kannon on-air, has joined AC KVIL 103.7 FM as its new morning hot.

Kannon began Wednesday morning filling a slot that’s been vacant on CBS Radio's KVIL since Zazza Mornings with Tony Zazza and Julie Fisk was dropped in November.

According to The Star-Telegam, Kannon was dropped in October by KLIF 93.3 FM when it switched from the i93 format to Hot 93.3, which at first sounded like i93-style top 40, then switched briefly to classic hip-hop, and is now more contemporary hip-hop and R&B.

“Kannon brings a wealth of social-media experience and an expansive knowledge of everything pop culture to our more music morning show on the New 103.7 KVIL,” program director Jay Michaels said. Kannon indeed is social-media savvy: check him out on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Kannon’s resume includes stations in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Portland, Maine. He began his radio career as a high school student in Raleigh, N.C., hosting weekend overnights at WRDU-FM and went on to become the mix show DJ in Boston for a nationally syndicated program, Open House Party, which he now hosts on Sunday nights. Kannon will be based in DFW, and Open House Party will begin airing on KVIL this weekend.

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The Kannon move is the latest in a series of changes at KVIL that began in early 2013 when the station dropped longtime morning-show duo Gene and Julie Gates. The Gateses are now doing mornings at WRAL — coincidentally, in Raleigh, N.C. the city where Kannon got his start.

The most recent change at KVIL before Kannon’s debut came last week, when longtime DFW radio personality Christopher Hackett was dropped as midday host. There now appears to be some sense of stability at the station with a full 5:30 a.m.- midnight lineup, with Kannon on till 10 a.m., Sybil Summers in the 10 a.m.-3 p.m. slot, Leigh Ann Adam and Courtney Kerr’s antics from 3 to 7 p.m., and Kory on from 7 to midnight.