Howie's passing is a very sad thing for his family, friends, and thousands of listeners, and Bill and Bob Klaus, the owners of WNIR.
The station has a huge, challenging task to find his permanent replacement.
In 2012, with so many stations all over the country running network talk with little or no local hosts...thus, there's not a lot of young, talented talk show hosts working on their craft in smaller markets. So, finding a replacement for any talk show icon who leaves his/her show for any reason is now much, much more difficult.
May Mr. Chizek RIP.