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Current and Former Staffers Tell of “Toxic” Culture at Orlando Christian Radio Station

By Warren Cole Smith
WPOZ headquarters
WPOZ headquarters in Orlando, Florida.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The Roys Report has removed the content of this article (as of January 6, 2023) because the original publisher, MinistryWatch, has removed the article from its website and asked us to do likewise. 
 
The focus of this article, Z Ministries and James Hoge, sued MinistryWatch President Warren Cole Smith in 2021 for alleged defamation. On October 20, 2022, Z Ministries and Hoge dismissed Smith as a defendant in the suit, and both parties issued the following statement:

JOINT STATEMENT OF WARREN COLE SMITH, MINISTRYWATCH.COM, Z MINISTRIES, AND JAMES HOGE

Warren Cole Smith, Ministry Watch.com, Z Ministries, Inc. (Z88.3 FM, Orlando) and James Hoge have been engaged in a legal dispute regarding content that was published on MinistryWatch.com and other websites.

The parties recognized that allowing the dispute to continue in the court system would be costly from a financial standpoint, as well as a detriment to the cause of Christ. We have therefore resolved the matter amicably in a spirit of reconciliation.

To say anything more about this would not further the parties’ desire and efforts to put the dispute behind us, and so we will not be answering questions or otherwise addressing this matter. As Paul exhorts us in Philippians 3:13- 14, we forget what lies behind and strain forward to what lies ahead in the prize of the upward call of Christ.

Warren Cole Smith
MinistryWatch.com
James S. Hoge
Z88.3 FM – Orlando Z Ministries, Inc

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8 Responses

  1. My immediate thought was that to change would affect the cash cow (at least in his mind) of Hoge.

  2. Hoge is a narcissist. He is a micorcosm of Trump. Nacissism is growing becuase society is becoming more tolerent of it. This is extremely dangerous. To learn more, check out this psychologist as she explains what is happening with this growing trend of narcissism among leadership: http://bit.ly/narcissisticleadershipexample

  3. Ask “Young Thunder” about his change in tone & participation in the Karl and Crew Morning Show on WMBI. I give him until July.

  4. According to Galatians 6 ” But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
    Can Mr. Hoge honestly say that these traits describe who he is?

  5. Having worked for a toxic organization with toxic leadership, I can only say that all of this resonates with me.

  6. Excuse me…if name-calling is not allowed, how is Donald Trump (or anyone else) a “narcissist”?

    1. Because narcissism is a diagnostic term that applies to an identifiable set of behaviors, rather than being mere name calling.

      1. Unless someone is qualified to make that diagnosis and is able to evaluate that person correctly, it sounds like name-calling to me. You could say someone acts like a narcissist, or exhibits traits of a narcissist.

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