Atlanta Radio: WWPW Moves Riley Couture To Mid-Days

About six months after Scotty Kay and Bret Mega were unceremoniously dropped from the highly-rated WWPW Power 96.1 FM morning show, the third leg of that team Riley Couture has now been bumped off as well.

Riley Couture

Atlanta media writer Rodney Ho at aj.com reports PK and his wife Denise will stay on.

However, Couture still has a job at Power. She has been moved to 10 a.m. to noon. According to Ho, she has a contract so a pay cut is not immediately imminent. In fact, she recently re-upped. But why would Power pay someone morning show money to do a mid-day shift?, Ho wonders.

Despite the show’s best ratings in its two-year history, Power management inexplicably let go Scotty and producer Bret in late February, leaving Couture behind.  Ho adds in over 15 years of covering radio, he had never seen a show with such strong ratings dismantled like that before. They were ranked No. 2 in January among 18 to 34 year olds, only behind the Bert Show on Q100.

Less than a month later, Power hired PK and Denise to join Couture. PK (real name: Panagiotis Kalentzis) had last hosted a show in Houston. Ratings fell off after Scotty and Bret left, bottoming out in July at a 4 rating among 18 to 34 year olds, less than half of the peak achieved by Scotty, Bret and Riley.