Longtime Wichita radio personality laid off as Audacy cuts workforce

Greg “The Hitman” Williams — a longtime host on Wichita’s hip-hop and R&B radio station Power 93.5 — was laid off by the station’s parent company Thursday after 25 years at the station, he wrote on social media.

Williams has hosted or co-hosted the Power 93.5 morning show for decades.

“To the lifelong supporters of my career, it is with a sad heart that I am making this post,” he posted on his Facebook page Friday. “I am no longer with Power 93.5 and KEYN. I was part of my company (Audacy) massive layoffs yesterday.”

Williams said the layoff “is not the end” but “the start of new beginnings.”

“I am eternally grateful that each of you have allowed me to be a part of your lives on Power 93.5 for the last 25 years. Even more of you have been with me from the very star (sic).”

“I am blessed and highly favored, and as a child of God, with a loving wife, and an amazing family, nothing on earth matters more than that,” Williams wrote.

Williams is perhaps best known for his booming laugh, often at his own bawdy early-morning jokes and for his work as an ambassador for the radio station.

But Williams’ recent radio work has been overshadowed by allegations of off-air sexual harassment made by a former co-worker, an accusation Williams publicly denied. His show was taken off the air briefly in 2022 while the station investigated. He returned to the airwaves about two weeks later, after he was apparently cleared by the station and the Wichita City Attorney’s Office declined to file charges.

Williams appears to be one of 200 or more Audacy employees laid off this week, according to Billboard.com. J.R. Cruz, another Wichita morning-show host who was an on-air personality for 103.7 KEYN, whose parent company is also Audacy, reportedly “parted ways” with the station because of medical issues.

Audacy, the second-largest radio company in the United States behind iHeartMedia, has been plagued by financial trouble since it merged with CBS Radio in 2017 and advertising dollars have dried up for traditional radio. Last year, the publicly traded company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and emerged as a private company in September — a controversial move that positioned Democratic billionaire donor George Soros as the largest stockholder in a company that includes more than 200 radio stations.

In Wichita, those stations include Power 93.5, Greatest Hits 103.7 KEYN, 105.3 The Buzz, KFH Sports Radio 97.5 and the talk-radio stations KNSS 98.7 FM and 1330 AM.

This story was originally published March 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM.