Out effective immediately is afternoon personality Roe Conn, whose contract runs through the end of the year. During daytime hours, near-perfect ground conductivity gives WGN at least secondary coverage to almost two-thirds of Illinois (as far south as Springfield) as well as large slices of Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Iowa. On September 1, 1928 the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) ruled that this was two stations too many, and ordered that their operations be consolidated. Jerald McNair: We dont want to incarcerate youth. For the 2018 and 2019 seasons, WGN was the flagship station for the Major League Baseball Chicago White Sox. Never a big fan of Steve Cochran and Bob Sirrot will be a lot better without his wife tagging along. WGN-AM 720. Bring Wendy & Bill back too!!! I dont remember a lot about Bob Sirott or his wife. However the ship's skipper (and namesake) agreed to relinquish it in order to free it for adoption by the newspaper. (Chicago Tribune historical photo). This 50 watt transmitter was built up from component parts by station engineers and was moved over to the Drake Hotel at the latter part of 1922. Therefore WGN, Inc. turned in WGNB's license for cancellation, and the station was deleted on May 28, 1953. Bring back Bill & Wendy! [64], On February 14, 2018, WGN was named the new flagship station of the Chicago White Sox, who were left without a station after Cumulus Media voided their contract to air on WLS as part of their Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Heres everything you need to know about The Grinch sequel, plus the best books your kid can check out now. At least Kathy and Judy got a chance to wrap things up. Over the years, WGN has waffled between the 1922 and 1924 origin stories to mark significant anniversaries, but settled on 2022 for the centennial, Marzullo said. The deal ends the team's 90-year association with WGN.[61]. WGN airs local news headlines, weather forecasts supplied by WGN-TV, traffic reports and sports headlines every half-hour on weekdays from 6a.m. to 7p.m. and every hour nights and weekends. Ill never understand the cut throat business that is radio. The station played small amounts of music during the mornings and afternoon hours, moderate amounts of music on weekends during the day, aired midday and evening talk shows, and sports among other features. No personality is larger than what the brand is. Clarence Dittman, and WGN radio announcer Jack Brickhouse broadcast from the Chicago airport tarmac in 1942. Jalen Carter, a top NFL draft prospect and potential target for Chicago Bears, charged with reckless driving and racing in fatal accident. Glad Cochran is goneso self aggrandizing and self centered the world did NOT center on him and his opinions!! No Cochran = Happy 2020. Compton worked for Clear Channel Radio under Randy . After all, success in radio is based on building and maintaining connections between hosts and the audience. Not much different than the next. On Sundays it runs Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham from WLW Cincinnati. In 1982, he became full-time meteorologist for the radio station. On Thursday, WGN-AM 720 celebrates its 100th anniversary, still going strong as the Voice of Chicago after a century of broadcasting that spans the dawn of radio to the digital age, using a format that has essentially remained unchanged. 1. block or enclose with a wall of bricks. On June 15, 2009, the station announced that Greg Jarrett would become its new morning-drive host starting on June 22, with John Williams being shifted to Kathy and Judy's former late morning timeslot. Stupid decisions. WGWG-LP began an interim simulcast of WGN radio at 10 p.m. on December 31, 2014. You can find a comprehensive archive of his material here. Could Rogers Park dispensary move next to a CTA terminal? He was notified after he got off the air Friday that it was his last show. Same too bill and Wendy, trump haters, Agree. What the hell is wrong with WGN? In black-appeal radio, the disc jockey role was pioneered both locally and nationally by Jack L. Cooper, who began playing . He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast .more. Also during weekdays, the radio station simulcasts the first two hours of the WGN Morning News at 4a.m. All night and all weekend long, they re-play hours and hours of recent programming, no new content, and none of the familiar, friendly voices we enjoyed. Wallace M Rogerson conducted the Keep Fit to Music programme. I really miss,Nkck Digilio. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. His last day at WGN Radio was October 31. Dont need the negativity heading into work. WGNs hiring of Sirott tells us there is a lot of truth to what Joyner said because quite basically, relying on the same ol limited list of names to keep your radio station relevant is particularly asinine at a time when radio is failing to attract the next generation of listeners. Would love to see Pete McMurray have a permanent splot on WGN radio. We talked today about the sad decline of WGN. Top. Theres a valid reason he was kept in a room by himselfno one else could fit with him AND his ego. : July 9", "Standard Broadcast Station Call Letters for All Outlets Starting Nov. 1, FCC Rule", "For the Record: Existing FM Stations. Adam Carolla. [14] During this period, Count Cutelli installed one of the most advanced sound effects system to date into the WGN studios, the same system used in Hollywood films.[15]. In 2018, with Tribune Tower sold for redevelopment as million-dollar condos, WGN Radio left its longtime street-level studio on North Michigan Avenue for new digs and an 18th-floor perch at 303 E. Wacker Drive. And yesthe ever present I am right and you are wrong my way or nothing, THE last wordALWAYSand the continuous bashing of the current administrationWAY TOO POLITICAL for a morning drive personality On May 15, 1933, after the FRC requested that stations using only one of their assigned call letters drop those that were no longer in regular use, WLIB was eliminated and the station reverted to just WGN. After a dispute with the station in 1927, Gosden and Correll took the program's concept and announcer Bill Hay across town to WMAQ and created the first syndicated radio show, Amos 'n' Andy. The early afternoon show hosted by Anna Davlantes will expand to three hours from 1 to 4 p.m. Management did not comment on the other personnel moves. Urbana-Champaign/Chicago Media Personality/WLS Host & Podcaster/Former WGN Radio/TV Host, News Anchor, Reporter. Cant stand that snotty, conceited Sirott. On November 20, 2014, Chicago media blogger Robert Feder reported that WGN management planned to end operation of both WGWG-LP and internet station WGN.FM on December 31, 2014. It was a return to the station for Sirott, who co-hosted middays with his wife, Marianne Murciano, from 2013 to 2015, and previously hosted The Noon Show from 2007 to 2010 while co-anchoring the WFLD-Ch. No thanks, Im out. While residing in TX 09/2015 DeCastro fired Bob and Marianne. My Dad had WGN on all the time. : Bailey, Bill - Program Director and afternoon personality at WLHT-FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Compton worked for Clear Channel Radio under Randy Michaels and made the transition with him to Tribune when Sam Zell bought the company in 2007. Glad to see him go.but sirott is not the answer. Here's WGN's weekday lineup, starting January 3: 4 to 6 a.m. WGN-TV simulcast Nextstar is destroying what was a legend in radio . where his students included WLS-Ch. 51. Ill miss you. RADIO / BROADCAST HISTORY LIBRARY: Thousands of magazines . All thats left worth listening to now are the best Colour Analysts in the NHL-Troy Murray & John Wiederman. Lisa Dent, who's been a popular Chicago radio personality for two decades, will sign on as Monday-through-Friday afternoon host at WGN 720-AM in the new year. The agreement is for three years. We are fortunate to have her expertise at WGN Radio.. In the spring of 1986, as Phillips was ceding the morning show to Collins after nearly 20 years, he still had a 15.7 audience share, nearly double the nearest competitor. I am tired of John Williams, and the repeative commercials. Youd hate it even more now, the entire schedule is repetitive! [2] WGN has a news/talk format, along with broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks hockey and Northwestern University football and basketball. I would listen with my dad. WGN's former owner. The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign holds the WGN Radio Station Studio Orchestra Music Library and Records, 19251956,[41] which consists of scripts, programs, production notes, correspondence, music library rental records, sheet music manuscripts, and music scores with annotations that document the WGN Studio Symphonic Orchestra from 1925 to 1956. During nighttime skywave hours, with a good radio, it is audible over most of the Eastern and Central United States and Central Canada. "All of this at the legendary WGN-AM in Chicago, the crown jewel of talk radio, the station we hated when our parents forced it on us as kids, the station we made fun of as teenagers, and the station we learned to respect as we realized why it's been so good for so long because the people there cared. The changes are an attempt to shift WGN closer to the programming format it had prior to Kevin Metheney and Randy Michaels' tenure with WGN and Tribune, while placing more emphasis on new media; this included the move of Mike McConnell's program to the station's secondary Internet radio station WGN Plus (formerly WGN-2) until the remainder of his contract was bought out around October 10, 2013,[58] the move of Jonathon Brandmeier's morning show to a new station branded "The G" (which has since launched as an additional Internet-only station but is planned to eventually move to an FM frequency to be acquired by Tribune) in favor of Cochran, and increased synergy with WGN-TV (including the replacement of WGN radio's "Voice of Chicago" slogan with WGN-TV's longtime slogan, "Chicago's Very Own"). Dec 2015 - Present7 years 3 months. Updated: Aug 6, 2014 / 09:07 AM CDT. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Bill and Wendy ARE THE BEST. The original WGN began operating on the evening of March 29, 1924, after the newspaper took over programming of the former WJAZ. The disc jockey became important in Chicago radio during the 1930s, well before the term "disc jockey" was coined in the 1940s. said about the state of radio recently in Billboard: WXRT moves: Brehmer shifts to middays; news anchor Dixon out, Bears bomb on field again, draws mixed ratings results for Sunday Night Football. [43] In 2005, Tom Langmyer was appointed as vice president and general manager of WGN. These staffing changes were made over the course of months after Sean Compton began to oversee radio operations as Nexstar's Executive Vice President of WGN America, WGN Radio & Director of Content Acquisition. Wont be listening. Giving a squeaky little voice a one person afternoon show is not the way to attract or keep listeners. Steve was too negative constantly focusing on the political scene from Only his prospective. But he left WGN to take a job on 97.1 FM the Drive on their morning show. Still like Roes insanity on the drive home. WDAP was originally located at the Wrigley Building. In 1946, the Tribune Company applied to the FCC for a construction permit to build a television station. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On December 2, 2011, WGN announced that Jonathon Brandmeier was named the new morning drive time host, effective December 9. Cochrans demise started 3 years ago with Trumps election and his own self centered beliefs, really believed his own BS. Cochran constant bashing of Trump tiresome. But with few people owning FM radio receivers in that era, management did not think WGNB would become profitable. Lisa Dent, who's been a popular Chicago radio personality for two decades, will sign on as Monday-through-Friday afternoon host at WGN 720-AM in the new year. Im so disappointed with WGN. At the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival, you will find a palate-dazzling smorgasbord of cuisines and cocktails in which to indulge. Its schedule was primarily a simulcast of the AM station, with some FM-only music shows broadcast as well. The loss of the Cubs, however, still stings for listeners and WGN staffers alike, hanging on like a phantom limb to the station where Chicago play-by-play broadcasts were born. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Nexstar also dropped their affiliation with ABC News Radio and instead is supplying national news updates for WGN America's national newscast, NewsNation with WGN newscasters and audio from Nexstar-owned television stations. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune). Daytime Chicago. The station is profitable, she said, but declined to disclose revenue. Conn joined WGN as afternoon host in 2015 after 25 years at Cumulus Media news/talk WLS 890-AM. I have to say that I am very disappointed in this move. I would say theyre turning wgn into a geriatric radio station but even my 91 year old mother thinks the new line up is boring even before they fired Steve Cochran. I stopped listening to the morning show when Cochran came on. Franklyn MacCormack (birth name was Franklin H. McCormick) was born March 8, 1906, in Waterloo, Iowa and became an outstanding American radio personality from the 1930s into the 1970s . Im done. Thats what Steve always did was tell the facts. . The firing of Bill, Wendy and Steve Cochran make many of us feel like weve lost some family members. Thats why I decided to retire. WGN's studios are located in the Chicago Loop, while the transmitter is in Elk Grove Village. We have talked about life in America's greatest city, interviewed the famous and the not-so-famous, expressed disappointment in our sports teams, examined the intricacies and foibles of the human condition and made fun of ourselves and each other, gloriously. [2] The corporation was headed by Thorne Donnelley and Elliott Jenkins. : Bateman, Bob - On air personality at WMIL-FM in Milwaukee. Compartilhar isto. [21] Effective November 1, 1943, the FCC modified its policy for FM call signs,[22] and the station's call letters were changed to WGNB. badrogue17. Orion Samuelson had been the station's farm reporter since 1960, he retired in 2020. I agree. Late in the game for a response but I still miss Spike and Judi and Kathy! But in recent years, it has added some nationally syndicated talk shows at night. Prior to the sale's closure, WGN-TV was one of two commercial television stations in the Chicago market, not counting network-owned stations, to have never been involved in an ownership transaction (along with WCIU-TV, which has been owned by Weigel Broadcasting since its February 1964 sign-on). He joined WGN-AM and WGN-TV Channel 9 in 1965. WGN also features broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks hockey and Northwestern University football and basketball. Cant wait to hear their voices again. One major issue was Cochran not coming to work on time and starting late for his show. We can't tell you how much we appreciate you being there with us, and letting us be honest and real and have fun. OMG hope its Bob & Marianne In 1961, the WGN radio and television stations moved to a studio facility on West Bradley Place in the North Center neighborhood, a move undertaken for civil defense concerns in order to provide the station a safe base to broadcast in case of a hostile attack targeting downtown Chicago. One of her first personnel moves in December 2019 was naming veteran Chicago radio and TV personality Bob Sirott as morning drive host on WGN Radio. I listen to WGN Radio less and less. [53] That year, morning host Spike O'Dell retired from radio; WGN then moved the station's midday host at the time, John Williams to the morning slot. The decision not to renew Conns contract did not come as a surprise, but the timing of it did. Yuck , what dry and better than thou persona. Will definitely tune into their show. In June 2013, Tribune Broadcasting CEO Larry Wert hired Jimmy DeCastro as WGN radio's president and general manager. After McCormick died from pneumonia-related complications on April 1, 1955, ownership of WGN-AM-TV, the Chicago Tribune and the News Syndicate Company properties transferred to the McCormick-Patterson Trust, assigned to the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation in the names of the non-familial heirs of McCormick (whose two marriages never produced any children) and familial heirs of Patterson. Also out is overnight personality Nick Digilio, who also was notified Friday. [65] WLS 890 AM previously had the contract to carry the White Sox, but its parent company, Cumulus Media, ran into financial problems and gave up the rights to White Sox broadcasts. The Nexstar Media news/talk station announced the move Thursday as part of a new weekday lineup starting January 3. B96 - WBBM 96.3 FM . I listened recently to Sirott and found the program so boring!!!! Thank you WGN!!! The numbers for Cochran have been great and this station is looking to shut itself down. Miss their show. 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