Joyner rejoins Chicago radio

Morning host Tom Joyner is returning to the airwaves in Chicago.

Joyner's syndicated morning show was booted off adult-urban WVAZ 102.7-FM in March in a corporate move by Clear Channel Radio. Yet Joyner has been a popular radio figure in Chicago going back to 1972, and responding to a public outcry competing Crawford Broadcasting scooped him up for WSRB/WYRB 106.3-FM.

According to Joyner's Web site, his morning show will air on the station from 5 to 9 weekdays starting Wednesday, although Crawford and Clear Channel reportedly still have to work out some potential contractual snags.

Joyner attained stardom in the '80s as the "Fly Jock," doing a morning show in Dallas and an afternoon show at urban-contemporary WGCI 107.5-FM, and had been popular in Chicago, either with a local or a syndicated show, ever since. When he was pulled off the air on V103, listeners responded with phone calls and e-mails to the station and an Internet-driven media blitz.

"Thank you, Chicago, and all our friends from all over the country," Joyner wrote on the blackamericaweb.com site Monday. "You have spoken, you have written, you have tweeted - and your activism has made a difference in a big way! We are going back on the air, and if I could hug and thank each and every one of you individually, I would."