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Wendy Bell out of WJAS lineup

Megan Guza
By Megan Guza
2 Min Read May 10, 2021 | 5 years Ago
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Wendy Bell is no longer in the weekday lineup on talk radio station WJAS.

“All I can tell you is it’s a personnel matter and it’s currently being handled by the company,” said Michele Bradac, a spokeswoman for St. Barnabas, which owns the radio station.

The radio station posted a new weekday show schedule to its Facebook page about 8 a.m. Monday. It did not include Bell in her normal time slot, which had been 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday.

The Facebook post had more than 700 comments, many demanding answers as to Bell’s status.

Talk show host Glenn Beck is listed in that time slot as on Monday. Bell and her show are no longer featured on the radio station’s website.

Bradac said she could not comment on whether Bell’s show would return to the schedule.

In her own Facebook post, Bell told her followers not to fret.

“All is good! Believe me. It’s all good,” she wrote.

She pointed followers to a list of her sponsors, noting that “The men and women behind these businesses are behind ME.”

She told followers to stay tuned. Bell could not immediately be reached for comment.

Bell joined the radio station part time in January, and she was promoted to full-time status in March, hosting her own Wendy Bell Show.

She has not been without controversy.

Previously, KDKA Radio removed Bell from the air in September after she made controversial comments during her show. She suggested park rangers should “shoot on sight” people defacing public monuments. In October, she officially parted ways with KDKA Radio.

Bell was fired from WTAE in 2016, where she served as a longtime news anchor, over a Facebook post she wrote on her official work account in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg.

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