Nashville, Tenn.–Nashville R&B radio station 92Q laid off popular 21-year personality Kenny Smoov, according to the Tennessean.
Smoov and two members of the station’s morning show, the 615 Wake Up, were laid off, according to the report.
The layoffs were part of nationwide workforce downsizing at Cumulus Media, which filed for bankruptcy in March.
According to the report, the 92Q layoffs also included morning show personalities Sissy Brown and Khristal Witta Eye.
The third 615 Wake Up host, Sean Good, will replace Smoov in the middays timeslot.
Smoov has been a fixture of Nashville’s Black culture scene.
He had an in-studio celebration Sept. 4, his last day on air, with appearances by Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell, Davidson County Register of Deeds Karen Johnson and Davidson County Clerk Sharon Hurt.
“Right now, I feel gratitude,” Smoov told The Tennessean Sept. 8. “And I’m disappointed it ended like that. I still had a whole book full of ideas. I know [radio is] going into this new space, and I wanted to be out front leading creative. For it to end abruptly was disappointing.”
