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Chicago's talk WLS (890) faces a $44,000 FCC fine for lack of sponsor ID
In the Spring of 2009, then-Citadel-owned WLS ran a variety of programming supplied by Workers Independent News: 45 90" spots, 27 :15 promotional announcements, two 2-hour programs, and a single 1-hour program. The FCC determines that WLS failed to satisfy its sponsor identification requirements for 11 of the 90" spots, and is fining WLS the baseli…
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Radio’s Best & Worst: February 2, 2012
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending February 2, 2012. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Station (FM)WODC (Oldies 93.3) Columbus, Ohio – Okay, it took holiday music to propel them into double digits.
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Making Moves: Thursday, January 26, 2012
All-news WTOP Washington, D.C., and radio personality Mark Plotkin have parted ways, according the the Washington Post. He’d been with the station for nearly ten years … Cumulus Talk WLS (890) Chicago has hired TV reporters Dan and Anthony Ponce, to host a weekend show.
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John Records Landecker takes over Dick Biondi's evening shift on WLS-FM, Chicago
Biondi, now 79, says he asked management for some time to think it over, after they proposed moving him out of evenings back to 11pm-2am. He tells TimeOut Chicago's Robert Feder “I’m going to go into the new show and give it everything I’ve got...I hope that management will allow me to still be the crazy Dick Biondi.” Landecker recently gave up his…
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Landecker exits weekday shift on Chicago-area WIMS-AM
After nearly a year and a half, Chicagoland Radio and Media reports that radio vet John Records Landecker (his legal name) has decided to leave his morning show on WIMS-AM (1420) in Michigan City, Indiana, to concentrate on the weekend gig he started in late December for WLS-FM (94.7) Chicago. Landecker has been with WIMS since the fall of 2007 – f…
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Bill Bailey, the "Duke of Louisville", dies at 81
Bill Bailey (William Boahn) did mornings at Chicago's WLS for a year and worked in Lexington at the end of his career. But he was best-known for his years in Louisville, hosting mornings at WKLO (starting in 1965) and then the original top 40 WAKY-AM and WCII.
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John Landecker back to WLS, Chicago – this time to weekends on oldies WLS-FM
Cumulus Media Chicago President/GM Michael Damsky says "For anyone who knows Chicago radio, there's just something about John Records Landecker and WLS that just sounds right together." Robert Feder reports in TimeOut Chicago that Landecker will be heard this coming weekend doing 10am-3pm on both Saturday and Sunday, on oldies WLS-FM (94.7). Landec… Read More
Making Moves: Monday, December 12, 2011
Radio-Info.com confirms that Peak Broadcasting in Boise, Idaho and PD Jason Wilmont will part ways at the end of the year. Wilmont is PD of talk KIDO (580), sports KFXD (630) & Hot AC KCIX-FM (105.9) ...
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Making Moves: Thursday, December 8, 2011
After five years, Traverse City, Michigan's Northern Broadcast's Program Operations Manager Dennis Winslow is leaving to focus on his consultancy, Winslow Programming Strategies. Rich Nadeau will take over WFCX-FM (94.3) & WSRT-FM (106.7) ...
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Clear Channel names two managers for Spokane
Dan Manella and Michael LaCrosse are traveling from Chicago to Spokane, to run the Clear Channel cluster there. Manella will be the market manager. Read More
The Responsibility Of National Radio
In a perfect world, national radio would be a complement to local radio, not a replacement. National super-stations would create more listening by offering consumers more choices, and thus allow the radio industry to create jobs, not eliminate them.
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Nine layoffs at Cumulus-owned WLS-AM/FM, Chicago
The Chicago combo appears to be the latest large market visited by post-merger layoffs. Cumulus took over Citadel Broadcasting in mid-September, and has previously cut staff in Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York. Read More
Mancow Muller returns to the air in greater Chicagoland
He was a household name in Chicago, but has been off Windy City radio since he was dropped by talk WLS-AM (890) about 16 months ago. Erich "Mancow" Muller has certainly kept himself busy, doing a syndicated daily show for Talk Radio Network and hosting a weekend show on New York City's WABC-AM (770).
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Making Moves: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
A new Rush Radio simulcast: Clear Channel has parted ways with Greensboro, North Carolina talk WPTI (94.5) morning host Dimitri Vassilaros, replacing him with a Raleigh sister-station "Rush Radio" simulcast of WRDU (106.1) "The Morning Rush with KC & Carmen" ... Mapleton Communications in Chico, California is bringing back Scott Michaels as OM, and… Read More
Making Moves: Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Radio-Info hears from the Windy City, where CBS Radio's news WBBM/WCFS (780/105.9) is losing anchor/reporter Mary Frances Bragiel to rival WLS (890) for anchoring and reporting duties ... Mitch Henck is the new morning show host for “Madison in the Morning” on "NewsTalk" WIBA (1310) in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Making Moves: Monday, August 1, 2011
Political pollster Scott Rasmussen is now a talk show host, airing shows on Washington's WMAL (630) and Chicago's WLS-AM (890) ... Another day - another hire by Merlin Media, this time Orlando, Florida's news/talk WFLF (540 / 94.5) journalist Michelle Murillo.
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Making Moves: Wednesday, July 27, 2011
In Boston, former New England Patriots linebacker Teddy Bruschi will be joining sports/talk WEEI (850) as a co-host for "Patriots Monday", alongside "Big Show" hosts Michael Holley & Glenn Ordway - Discuss it ... Also in sports, Atlanta's WQXI (790) "The Zone" trims an hour from the "Two Live Stews," cutting the show from three to two hours while a…
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Citadel's Chicago talker WLS-AM makes a pre-Rush lineup change
Cisco Cotto is out of the 9-11am weekday shift, replaced by Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft. GM Michael Damsky says adding the team of a sportscaster (Wolf) and former gubernatorial candidate (Proft) "turns up the excitement level” in that daypart. Read More
Making Moves: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Radio-Info confirms in Memphis that after a 24-year run, Clear Channel and classic rock WEGR-FM (102.7) PD Tim Spencer has left the building. No replacement named ...
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Bill Hess is promoted to Program Director at Citadel's DC talker, WMAL (630)
The veteran had been serving under multi-market ops director Drew Hayes as APD, since he joined last August. Now Hayes, also responsible for Citadel's talk WLS, Chicago (890), recognizes Hess for his "central role in the strategizing and development of the WMAL lineup since joining us last Summer." Hayes says Hess "shares the vision of a re-energ… Read More
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