{"id":319372,"date":"2025-11-28T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319372\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:52:07","slug":"beloved-radio-duo-ending-after-nearly-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319372\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved radio duo ending after nearly 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I4I3BIRH6FANBOCTUCZ5IF37HA\">\u201cThe John Boy and Billy Show\u201d is signing off at the end of 2025, after nearly five decades on air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TWAR5YJKJ5H53HP5Y3ZS64PQMA\">The Charlotte-based radio duo, John Isley and Billy James, have been paired together since 1980, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/article\/news\/local\/big-show-with-john-boy-and-billy-ending-radio-run\/275-17556127-4f44-42ca-ad41-bd3dda1cb302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">media reports.<\/a> The show is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/entertainment\/2025\/11\/beloved-country-music-duo-ending-show-after-nearly-50-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">syndicated for 34<\/a> classic rock and country music stations in 14 states across the country, including WTAK-FM in Huntsville and WRKH-FM in Mobile. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EPH2HURO35BBPM5HMWC5OXRXWM\">But it was pulled from its host station, Classic Rock \u201c99.7 The Fox\u201d WRFX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/article\/news\/entertainment-news\/big-show-john-boy-billy-leaves-charlotte-radio\/275-15cae7ed-9468-4501-b628-71ae39cccd55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ILDO25EXERH5REZRWDIZP65EF4\">The show broadcasts mornings 6-10 Eastern time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6UEGQBG74VH7JPI5QS3LWIPN3I\">Isley and James are known for NASCAR news, comedy albums and supporting U.S. military personnel on the show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe John Boy and Billy Show\u201d is signing off at the end of 2025, after nearly five decades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-319372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}