Tag: Chicago radio
Media: March 2023 ⢠Sky Daniels Remembers The Loop FM98
Sky Daniels was one of the biggest stars at the Loop in their first heyday (1979-1981), and although he has gone on to an incredibly successful career in the record and radio business and is now retired and living in California, he still has very fond memories of his time in Chicago. But […]
IE Rewind: Remembering Lin Brehmer: Media – September 2018
WXRT morning man Lin Brehmer is more than just a friendly voice on 93.1 FM every day, he is your âbest friend in the whole world,â a moniker he has used now for several years. âBut I usually say it in a pathetic âwhy donât I have any friends at allâ whine,â he points out. […]
Media: September 2021 ⢠“The Big ’89 to Hollywood”
Kris Erik Stevens’s arrival in Chicago in the late ’60s involved a bit of serendipity. âI was on my way from San Francisco to a gig I had just taken in Pittsburgh, and I stopped in Chicago along the way to see an old buddy of mine, Lyle Dean, who I had worked with […]
Media: September 2020
Fred Weintraub, co-host of The Hannah & Fred show on WCGO-AM 1590 and executive producer of sports at Weigel Broadcasting (WCIU-TV), lives a life that is very different from your average broadcaster. âIâm a Chicago-born and bred kid,â Fred says, âBut for the last 13 years Iâve been living between London and Singapore and Chicago. […]
Media: July 2020
When John Williams arrived at WGN in 1997, he was thrilled because he grew up listening to the station. âI grew up listening to Wally (Phillips) and Roy (Leonard) and Kathy (OâMalley) and Judy (Markey) and Bob (Collins). I thought Roy was one of the most capable interviewers I ever heard. Wally was one of the most seamless broadcasters I ever heard. Bob Collins had the most […]
Media – June 2020
Marc Silverman was already having a tough go of it, trying to do a sports talk radio show (Waddle & Silvy, afternoons, ESPN Radio AM 1000) in a time with no live sports, when he began to suspect there might be something wrong with his health. âI didnât really have any symptoms. I wasnât feeling […]
Media: November 2019
For seven months, Jenniffer Weigel occupied a co-host chair in Mancowâs studio at WLS. She already knew him socially but was impressed by seeing Mancow work firsthand. âHe works very hard on his show,â she says. âHeâs the first one there every morning. Watching him run the board is like watching someone with ADD fly […]
Media: June 2019
No one in this town has been a part of the Chicago media scene longer than WGN-Radioâs (and The Chicago Tribuneâs) Rick Kogan. He was literally born into it. His parents, Herman and Marilew, were both fixtures in the heyday of Chicagoâs print media. They lived the life. They hung out with Chicagoâs glitterati. […]
Media: April 2019
If you listen to the veterans of the radio world, you begin to hear a few common themes. One is that there is a dearth of young talent. Another is that the young talent that has emerged doesnât know and appreciate radio history, and are therefore unappreciative of what radio was and what it can […]
Media: March 2019
When WDRVâs Sherman and Tingle were first put together as a team more than a decade ago, it wasnât exactly considered a long term plan. âI came here from Phoenix to be a part of a show called The Morning Fix which is the show that replaced Mancow on Q-101,â Steve Tingle explains. âAfter […]
Media: February 2019
Bill Turckâs road to his current location, co-hosting Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall on Sunday afternoons (1-3pm) on WGCO is one of the most interesting non-traditional radio roads ever traveled. Twenty plus years ago, he was literally in the most dangerous place in the world. âI arrived in Sarajevo just after Susan Sontag […]
Media: January 2019
Dave Fogel has now been in the saddle as the morning man at WLS for a year. The return to his former station seemed to be destined. âI was doing mornings at WJMK, and CBS sold to Entercom out of the blue, a total surprise, and they changed the format overnight. I was out of […]
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