Coz Carson leaves talk radio, returns to music radio

Jan. 12, 2009, 5 p.m. - Radio talk show host Coz Carson has left USTalkNetwork.com to return to music radio.

"I am looking forward to putting down the political activist moniker for a while and concentrating on entertainment and music," Carson told Redding News Review in a news release.

Carson, who had once been ranked one of the top talk show hosts in America by Talkers magazine, says that he has accepted a midday music host position with Ackley Media Group in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He says he is looking forward to discussing "life issues" on WWKS-FM in St. Thomas.

"The Virgin Islands has been on my list of destinations which I would like to ply my craft," he said. "Now I am living my dream, I hope to do a lot of fishing and amerce myself into the Caribbean culture. Yea Mon!"

He has worked at a number of popular music stations in the mainland United States - including KMJQ-FM in Houston, WAMO-FM in Pittsburgh, and WBMX-FM in Chicago.

Carson - who joined the USTalkNetwork.com after several talk radio host and programming stints in New York City, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta - is the second talk host to part ways with the upstart network in the last few months.

Shelley Wynter was fired at the end of October, after having an on air dispute with network founder and president Lee Michaels.