When I was the PD of Nine FM we had a morning show issue. We had to get rid of a morning show that didn’t fit the direction we were taking the station in but my GM wouldn’t allow me to cut bait until we had a solution. Serving Chicagoland from the suburbs, we had [...]
December 16, 2008 is the day many folks will remember as “the day traffic stood still” for upwards of 4 hours. Upwards of 4 hours. Now try as you might, you’d be hard pressed to gab on the phone to friends and loved ones for 4 hours. You can’t watch TV in a car for [...]
A radio friend of mine recently said to me, “Take away the Cubs and ‘GN is WKRS.” That may or may not be true… Take away the Cubs, Spike O’Dell, Kathy and Judy and Paul Harvey though, and WGN is vulnerable. Unfortunately for WGN, 3 out of the four are almost inevitable in the short [...]
The Mix in Chicago is an Eric & Kathy machine. The music has become more adult top 40 and alt at times than Hot AC, and there have been a slew of various midday, afternoon and evening experiments on the air during Eric & Kathy’s era of dominance. Eric and Kathy will certainly not allow [...]