Pittsburgh Radio: Wendy Bell Taken Off Air At WJAS

In January, Former TV News anchor and conservative media personality Wendy Bell landed a role at WJAS 1320 AM / W256DE 99.1 FM, a radio station owned by St. Barnabas Broadcasting. She was promoted to a full-time host in March, but as of Monday, she “is currently not an on-air host for WJAS,” Michele Bradac, director of marketing for St. Barnabas Health System, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday.

“It is a personnel matter,” she said. “It’s a situation that’s being currently handled by our company.” Bell has been scrubbed from the station website.

Bradac would not say if Bell could return as a WJAS host and said a concrete answer to that question couldn’t be provided “until this personnel matter is resolved.”

Bell was fired in 2016 from her longtime WTAE-TV position after posting racially insensitive remarks regarding a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg on Facebook. She was back at work in 2019 as a KDKA Radio host but was taken off the air there in September 2020 after suggesting that park rangers should “shoot on sight” people vandalizing public monuments.

In March, Bell made a public speaking appearance at a rally Downtown where about 150 protesters aired grievances regarding mask mandates and the 2020 election results, among other things.

It’s unclear what led to Bell being removed as a host.