Tag: Jonathan Brandmeier
Media: June 2025 ⢠Swany Leaves 101.9FM The Mix
WTMX (The Mix) recently announced that midday personality Lisa Allen was leaving the station. The announcement added âalong with three other staffers.â When I read that, I had a bad feeling, so I called my old friend John âSwanyâ Swanson, my co-author of The Radio Producerâs Handbook, and asked him if he was one of […]
Media: November 2023: The Loop Files: An Oral History
Iâve written a new book called The Loop Files: An Oral History of the Most Outrageous Radio Station Ever. The book comes out officially at the end of this month, but this monthâs media column is a free preview. Â All the biggest stars who helped make the Loop (FM 98) so memorable tell the […]
Media: July 2023 ⢠Catching up with Mr. Wert
After more than four decades in the media business as a sales manager/general manager/vice president for places like WLS-TV, The Loop AM & FM radio stations, NBC-5 Chicago, and the Tribune Company, Larry Wert considers himself semi-retired. âBut Iâm working way more than I should be, considering Iâm semi-retired,â he admits. âIâm working on […]
Media: February 2021
Former Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce had an extremely memorable run on Chicago radio during the mid-90s. Still, since his time here, Danny has done radio in Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and now for the last decade, heâs been the morning man in Seattle at KZOK (102.5FM). âI think this is my longest run […]
Media: October 2019
Next year will be Rob Hartâs 20th year on the radio in Chicago, and he has worked at several stops along the way, including WGN, News 101, and the Loop. But now heâs manning the anchor desk at the dream destination for any radio newsman: NewsRadio WBBM 780. âItâs a great radio station,â he says. […]
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: April 2018
I was 23 years old the day I walked into the Loop offices for the first time. After getting rejections from the other rock stations in Chicago (and there were quite a few at the time), I had thrown a Hail Mary pass to the biggest of them all, The Loop. I wrote a letter […]
Media: September 2012
Chicago is one of the most talented cities in the country as comedians, actors, artists, bands, indie filmmakers, etc,” says Craig Erpelding, creator and writer and co-producer of the new, independently-produced local sitcom, “Two Flat.” “I felt it was a tragedy that sitcoms that are supposed to take place in Chicago are really produced in […]
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