Orland Park’s Ray Hanania has cancelled his morning radio show at WJJG (1530 AM) after three years to concentrate on his weekly Radio Baladi show and weekly newspaper columns.

Hanania, 57, decided to wind down after having heart surgery in December to repair damage caused by a heart murmur.

“It’s amazing that you’re up walking around four weeks after having major heart surgery,” he said Tuesday.

“I took four weeks off after surgery and eventually decided to concentrate my efforts elsewhere,” he said. “JJG was a good station but it has a weak signal. I’d like to move the show to a mainstream station on weekends.”

In the meantime, Hanania will continue to broadcast his weekly Radio Baladi show from 7 to 8 a.m. on Fridays at WJJG. The show is dedicated to Arab Americans and news about the Middle East. It is simulcast in Detroit.

“We’re going to be adding Houston and Washington, D.C., to our simulcasts, so that show is continuing to do well,” Hanania said.

In addition, Hanania will continue to write a weekly column for the Jerusalem Post, which is syndicated to a half-dozen newspapers in Europe by the Creators Syndicate. Locally, he also writes a weekly column for the Southwest Herald-News, which he is trying to syndicate.

Besides all that, he sometimes finds time to do comedy as part of the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour. He has four shows coming up in April in Jerusalem.

“I’m not a professional comedian by any means,” he said. “But I manage to get both sides laughing.”

Hanania, who is a Christian Arab married to a Jewish woman, says he has performed hundreds of comedy shows in the past decade in locations ranging from Homewood and Orland Park to Dublin and Jerusalem.

For more information on Hanania and his ventures, visit www.themediaoasis.com.