I got this nice-but-also-sad email just now, from the Playboy Radio producers I work with:
First and foremost I want to say thank you so much for being a part of our team and doing our Sex in the News for so long. We’ve absolutely LOVED having you on! Due to our merger w/ XM Radio, which launches on Monday, Sirius has asked us to make some changes to the show. We are taking the Sex in the News segment and the show in a different direction and will no longer need you to come in every Tuesday to do the news. Again, we’ve loved having you. Please stay in touch with us and let us know when you are promoting something, so we can have you as a guest. We will miss seeing you every week!
I’ll miss it too. I am grateful to have had the opportunity — and even as I indulge in some personal mourning at the loss, I look forward to what’ll show up next. Because something always does. Right? Right.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Tragic Magic // Sep 27, 2008 at 1:16 am
Sorry to hear that - but something will come along, I’m sure.
2 Barbara Bayliss // Sep 27, 2008 at 8:39 am
Their loss… *smiles* we expect to see you moving up and on in a most positive direction!
3 Amber Rhea // Sep 27, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Ugh!! Smart talk about sex is getting cut EVERYWHERE! Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Village Voice column, Dacia’s Naked City, Wired going in a “different direction” with Sex Drive, now this… it’s so distressing… everything is “going in a different direction.” Such bullshit. We all end up losing because of it. I am very sorry to hear about this Regina, and I hope (I know!) you will find something else awesome soon.
4 regina lynn // Sep 27, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Thank you! I really loved the radio show and have the utmost respect for Tiffany and the girls. I hope THEY get to keep doing wonderful things, post-merger.
I think the big media engine wants to relegate all the smart sex talk to blogs, where they don’t have to step into the sex world themselves OR pay for content, but they can write up the blogs that talk about sex smartly… which is sad because none of us can afford to put in the time it takes to produce excellence when we’re working for free.