Hot 97 Fires Miss Jones
June 28th, 2008
New York radio station Hot 97 has fired morning drive talk show host Tarsha Jones (Miss Jones) and replaced her with radio personality Big Boy and MTV Entertainment reporter Luscious Liz Hernandez. “Big Boy has an unmatched reputation for being entertaining… he also has great relationships with artists,” said Hot 97 programming director Ebro Darden. “Putting Big Boy on Hot 97 in New York City helps keep the high standard of radio happening for us.” According to Darden, Miss Jones will work all of next week which will allow her enough time to bid farewell to her listeners. “Miss Jones is one of the hardest working radio people I have ever seen and she made history with Hot 97,” said Darden. “Miss Jones will have the mic in mornings all of next week so that she is given her proper respect to tell her listeners how much she appreciates them and reminisce about how great this program has been.” Miss Jones was recently named in a federal lawsuit filed by New York lawyer Kevin Hunter. It claimed rival radio personality Wendy Williams and her husband tried to hire a hitman to knock her off.
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omg i listen to miss jones every morning!! she’s great and so are michael shawn and dj envy!! i personally DO NOT wanna hear big boi, he’s not even from or in the tri-state area. what is the reason she’s being fired anyway, she had good ratings??!!
good riddance. She used to be sweet, then she got in the limelight and play into the cliche’s of being an ignorant radio hos. Hopefully Envy and Michael Shawn go too. They were equallt ignorant with their african jokes and negative talk of drak skin women. tough break! In any event, Big Boy won’t work here. between him and Ed Lover laughing at his weak jokes for 30 minutes at a time down the dial, I might have to switch to Steve Harvey by default or pop in a CD in th morning. NY morning radio lost.
i am going to miss her….she is the only reason i listen to that station
ABOUT TIME!!
ABOUT TIME!!
ABOUT TIME!!
It’s about time!!!! Now I can listen to Hot 97 again. She was such a windbag and turned nasty over the years
I didn’t care all that much for ‘Jonesy’, but I LOVE Envy and Michael Shawn. I’ll really miss them.
Rip hot 97! I will never listen to you again!
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out. She made a horrific song/joke about the 200,000 plus that died after the Tsunami years ago. She should have been fired then. Peace, hope you can say ‘do you want fries with that?’
keep ya head up Tashia … u will be more than fine. Life always throw punches …you’ve been swung at and hit before and still you stand.
We my not have seen eye to eye in our brief friendship and professional relationship …but you are from NY and mostly you are a BLACK WOMEN … YOU WILL BE FINE !!
NO IT …OVERSTAND IT …AND IT WILL BE SO
Tandy
GOOD RIDANDCE!! lol
Listening to Ms. Jones and her team in the morning made my commute from PA to NYC rewarding. The diverse persectives were rewarding. There is always pros and cons to all issues.
BEING FROM CHICAGO, I OBVIOUSLY DID NOT LISTEN TO HER EVERY MORNING, BUT, I DID LIKE TO GET A LISTEN IN EVERY NOW AND THEN ONLINE. AND LIKE USHER SAID, SHE’S IGNORANT. BUT HEY, WHATEVER WORKS – LOOK HOW FAMOUS SHE IS. IM FROM CHICAGO AND IM FOLLOWING THIS STORY!! SHE DID HAVE SOME GOOD INTERVIEWS SOMETIMES. I THINK IF I WAS FROM NY, THEN I WOULD PROBABLY MISS LISTENING TO HER, BUT SINCE IM NOT FROM NY, THEN ILL JUST WISH HER LUCK IN THE FUTURE, AND I WILL KEEP LISTENING TO POWER 92(CHICAGO’S BEST) IN THE MORNING!
Dang, I sure would like to know WHAT HAPPENED?!?! She was great for my morning commute…just what I needed to get my mornings started b/c I do not drink coffee…lol! Man, I’m really going to miss her….NYC/BK stand up for Jonesy!!
Wow! I am really shocked! I remember once upon a time when I was a little bit younger I didn’t like Miss Jones I thought she was a troubel maker. I used to to be an avid 105.1 listener but it was because of her and her morning crew that i gave hot 97 another chance because with all those changes down the dial that station is wack!! I don’t know what im gonna do in the mornings now?? Cause i can’t stand Ed Lover or Steve Harvey Thank god for my Ipod 1010 wins for news and Weather!! Good Luck Jonesy all the best to you, Michael Shawn and his infectious laugh and to you D.J. Envy good luck and best wishes but im sure we’ll here from you all again!!
BYE BEEEIIITCH!!!!
You were corny anyway? You hollered superlatives such as “bitch”, or calling so many other women “bitches” simply for shock value, not humor. Lest we mention all the other tasteless snipits you came up with. (No I didn’t listen to her. I initially gave her a chance of course. Her corny ass made the news!) Anyone could see that you were fishing for popularity as a radio DJ because you were talentless as one. You “sold out” for a substancial paycheck, and popularity. Anyone, given the chance, could do it that way in the hottest market, on one of the hottest stations in NYC. (Thanks to Funkmaster when he first joined Hot 97) He made Hot 97. The rest of you all came along for the ride. Whatever. Bye #%?~*! As I heard her say.
MISS JONES WAS THE BOMB AND KEPT REAL AS CAN BE…..ENVY AND MIKE SHAWN ARE THE BEST AND IM GLAD THEY ARE LEAVING WITH HER…I DONT THINK SHE WAS FIRED IT WAS HER CHOICE AND HOT 97 WONT BE THE SAME WITHOUT HER…GOOD LUCK IN PHILLY YOU GUYS AND I WILL BE LISTENING VIA STREAMING RADIO ONLINE
Ed lover is verrrry “corny”. Steve Harvey started out corny, but he and his nephew do a few hilarious bits that keep me checkin in. Z100 has their moments. (They have the BEST TELEPHONE PRANKS ON RADIO). If they could limit the conversations/input with/of the self absorbed, spoiled rotten, “kool” impersonater, Carolina Bermudez. This is HOT 97’s chance to take over again. Not that I really care. Till then, I’ll switch back & forth with 107.5, & Z100. Mostly Z100. They play a variety of new music along with clever & silly humor. They don’t depend on disrespectful shock humor!
never liked her, couldn’t even stand her. but my man star is back on the air on pulse 87.7!
I stopped listening to them when they fired Wendy Williams. And if any of you were REALLY any kind of REAL fans of Aaliyah, your dumb asses should have stopped listening to her back in ‘01. Like my grandma (RIP) always told me, Karma…. Ya’ll know the rest!
i will miss them all, miss jones is the best she will blossom in philadelphia don’t let know one up stage you
i know that some of the things that she said was IGNORANT but we are human and we all say stupid stuff the fact is when something was troubling the public joney show was always there for u to vent and u just lost that i am not an American but i have been here for a couple of month and i think that she was doing a great job and hot 97 suffered a great lost well miss Jones u need to move on and don’t stay some place where u are not wanted and know that u will always have a fan in this bajan girl good luck to you girl and in the words of miss Jone BE WHO YOU ARE AND SAY WHAT YOU FEEL CAUSE THOSE WHO MATTER DON’T MIND AND THOSE WHO MIND DON’T MATTER PEACE OUT