106 & Hoax

     12 years ago, BET Network debuted a show called 106 &Park that featured the top 10 hottest songs along with entertainment news. Free and A.J. starred as hosts for the show for the first five years. After their retirement, BET Network started the competition BET New Faces, where they looked for the show's next host. College graduate, Terrence Jenkins aka Terrence J from North Carolina A&T, along with Chicago radio personality Rocsi Diaz were chosen to host the highly rated television show.

     This show has helped launch the career of the fresh faces in the industry. Terrence J pursued acting and was a part of Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming, Burlesque, TV Series The Game, and Think Like A Man. Rocsi continued working on the radio starring in her daily show Rocsi on the Radio.

     After 7 years on the air, it was time for Terrence J and Rocsi to part their ways and extend their services outside of 106 & Park. After announcing their departure from the show on May 29, 2012, BET once again went on a nationwide search for their next host. The competition 106 & Search consisted of fans submitting videos via YouTube expressing why they should be chosen to be the next and viewers had the opportunity to vote upon the best one. This competition lasted about 5 months. On September 28,2102 hosts Terrence Jenkins and Rocsi Diaz were featured in a farewell show, where many guest stopped by with gifts and wishing them luck in their future endeavors.

     The following week, on October 1, 2012 the new hosts for 106 & Park were revealed. They were hip-hop artist Shad “Bow Wow” Moss, who holds the title as Mr. 106 & Park, radio personality Jordan “Shorty da Prince” Johnson, Mykel “Miss Mykie” Gray, and Kimberly “Paigon” Walker. The line up of the line was something very different because instead of having two hosts, they had four.

     What is so astonishing to me about the current hosts of 106 & Park is that neither one of them has a video online for the competition 106 & Search competition. Before the host were announced, it had been rumored over the summer that Shorty da Prince and Kimberly “Paigon” Walker were considered for hosts of the show. Once the hosts were finally revealed and two of them were the ones mentioned over the summer confirmed that the competition was rigged and BET already knew whom they wanted. Many fans submitted their tapes and put their heart and everything into the video. For BET to do choose the hosts the way that says a lot about them. In my opinion, the competition was a hoax and by them making the decisions they made, they lost a lot of viewers. 106 & Park can be found on your local cable station on BET Network on Monday through Friday at 6/5c.