Tag: Rick Kaempfer
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: December 2018
As 2018 comes to an end and a new year begins, itâs time once again to pay tribute to the people who passed away this year. Once again, we lost some of the all-time Chicago greats. Among them, the long-time anchor and reporter Warner Saunders. Saundersâ award-winning 29-year stint at NBC-5 in Chicago touched countless […]
Media: November 2018
When Eric Ferguson started working at WTMX (The Mix), the studios had just moved from Skokie to downtown, and they were considered state of the art for their time. That time, unfortunately, was the 90s. Now, he is working in state of the art facilities again–brand new studios that are still under semi-construction. âLike anything […]
Media: August 2018
WDRV disc jockey Byrd is a rock jock out of central casting. He looks and sounds the part so much that you get the feeling if there was ever an injury to a band member of any group he was introducing on stage any given night, Byrd could fill in at the drop of a […]
Media: July 2018
WBMX midday host Diana Steele may be a new voice on the Chicago radio dial, but she isnât new to radio, and she isnât new to Chicago. Itâs just that her two worlds had never collided like this before, and sheâs really enjoying the ride. âIt is the coolest thing on the planet for a […]
Media: June 2018
WSCR (The Score) Morning host Mike Mulligan has the background that Chicago sports fans seem to require. He is one of us. âI grew up on the South Side, and went to school at Quigley, and college at Loyola.â He also grew up listening to the radio, and he understands our unique market history. âI […]
Media: May 2018
If youâre a big fan of WFLD-TV News (Fox 32) in Chicago, you might have noticed that their ace investigative reporter Dane Placko hasnât been on the air for about a month. Donât worry. He isnât the victim of budget cuts. He hasnât been demoted. He didnât get hired away by the networks. He just […]
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: February 2018
When I called Chicago radio legend Fred Winston (WLS, WMAQ, WFYR, WCFL, WPNT, WJMK, WLUP, and just about every other station on the dial), the gentleman farmer now living in Southwest Michigan, was in the middle of a project. âYou caught me repairing a doorknob. Thank God for the internet. There are scores of YouTube […]
Media: January 2018
If youâve listened to rock and roll radio for the last three decades, youâve undoubtedly run across the work of Steve Seaver. Heâs been rocking Chicago since 1991 at stations like The Blaze, The Loop, and currently The Drive (97.1 FM). Heâs one of those rare personalities who can be identified by one name, […]
Media: December 2017
Itâs become a year-end tradition in this space to honor some of the broadcasters we lost in the past calendar year. All of them touched countless lives in the Chicago area, maybe even your own. The Chicago media community is diminished by their absence. JOE COLLINSÂ â Collins was a veteran traffic reporter in Chicago best […]
Media: August 2017
Itâs been ten years since I wrote my first novel $everance (ENC Press, 2007). That book was a satire about what had become of the media business since the original deregulation in 1996. It was intended to shine a light on the dangers of entrusting so much control over news and information in the hands […]
Media: July 2017
When Len OâKelly was working in Chicago as a music director and disc jockey for radio stations like WJMK (104.3), academia was the furthest thing from his mind. At the time he was a college dropout and working in one of the top markets in the country. He thought heâd be doing that the rest […]
Media: June 2017
When WXRT night jock Ryan Arnold says he grew up on WXRT, he doesnât just mean that he listened to the station. His mom Marge Arnold worked there when he was growing up, and he spent a lot of time in the hallways. âI literally grew up in the bowels of WXRT back when it […]
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