Longtime Detroit radio personality Drew Lane is off the air at Greater Media Inc.’s sports station WMGC 105.1 FM after disagreements over show content and talent led to a breakdown in contract talks.

The station’s management announced in a statement today that Lane’s time as host of the afternoon drive-time show is over, and midday host Matt Dery would host his slot in the interim.

“It was Greater Media’s desire to take the station, and especially the show, in a direction that Drew could not agree to. It included changes, specifically in content and personnel,” said Lane’s agent, Loretta Ames, a partner at the Detroit office of Bloomfield Hills-based law firm Plunkett Cooney PC.

“That was the sole reason why the parties could not reach an agreement. They wanted to add people that were not consistent with the show he has delivered for the past 2½ years.”

Money was not the issue, Ames said, adding that Lane and Greater Media had agreed on financial terms for a new deal.

“It was as amicable a parting of the ways that there could possibly be,” she said.

Lane has been a co-host of the “Drew and Marc” show for the station’s 3-7 p.m. afternoon drive programming since August 2013. His contract expired in June, but continued on a month-to-month basis during contract negotiations, the station confirmed.

Steve Chessare, market manager for Greater Media, said Lane and the station could not come to an agreement over the show’s direction as a sports program.

“We believe, to be honest to our listeners, our clients and partners, we truly need to be a sports station,” he said. “Although Drew’s show is a great show and he’s been a great member of Greater Media Detroit all these years, we needed to make it sports-centric. Drew wasn’t really comfortable with that.”

The station rebranded itself Detroit Sports 105.1 FM when it hired Lane, giving it access to popular ESPN programming like “Mike & Mike” and “The Herd.”

WMGC’s overall ratings for the period ending Sept. 29 were a 0.8, which ranked the station 23rd in the market, according to data from Nielsen Audio.

CBS Radio Inc.-owned rival WXYT 97.1 FM, which has the Detroit Tigers, Lions and Red Wings play-by-play contracts, dominates the market with a 6.8 rating.

Chessare confirmed that Lane has a noncompete agreement and is legally barred from joining another local station for three months.

Ames said Lane intends to spend time with his parents, who are in their 90s, while he decides what to do next. She said she and Lane have not yet discussed in detail his long-term radio plans other than he’d like to stay in radio.

Lane joined 105.1 FM after WRIF 101.1 FM, also owned by Greater Media, canceled Lane’s 22-year-old morning show, “Drew & Mike,” in May 2013.

The show was replaced by former 89X morning show "Dave and Chuck the Freak."