While all of WGCL's personalities were let go, Wright's contract kept him from being bought out, so—due to his incompatibility with the new format—he was relegated to simply engineering the overnight shift for his remaining few weeks, with then-owner Harvey Deutsch referring to him as the "World's Highest Paid Board-Op."
During this period, Wright quietly had studied for a real estate license, and attained it after he left WNCX.
Wright stayed at WGAR-FM until being downsized in owner Clear Channel's mass budget layoff in November 2001.
On October 7, 2009, Envision Radio Networks officially announced a new syndicated weekend show called "The Live Ride with Danny Wright".
The show is a two-hour weekly “concert” to country radio featuring live performances from today's brightest stars.