{"id":12085,"date":"2016-08-08T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12085"},"modified":"2016-08-08T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T19:14:12","slug":"us-99-5-rebrands-as-chicagos-hottest-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/08\/08\/us-99-5-rebrands-as-chicagos-hottest-country\/","title":{"rendered":"US 99.5 rebrands as \u2018Chicago\u2019s Hottest Country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> \"Chicago's Hottest Country\"<\/p><\/div>\n

The first phase of rebranding CBS Radio country WUSN FM 99.5<\/a> rolled out Monday with the new slogan \u201cChicago\u2019s Hottest Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important that we reflect today\u2019s country listener in everything we do,\u201d program director Jeff Kapugi said in a statement. \u201cThe artists, music and concerts are hot and now so is \u2018US 99 Chicago\u2019s Hottest Country.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Soon to follow will be announcements of new on-air talent in mornings and evenings. Last week US 99 parted company with morning hosts Lisa Dent and Ramblin\u2019 Ray Stevens and nighttime host Joel \u201cJax\u201d Lisinski.<\/p>\n

Stevens joined Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS AM 890 <\/a>as morning co-host, reuniting Monday with Big John Howell, his former partner at US 99.<\/p>\n

Todd Cavanah, vice president of programming for CBS Radio Chicago, said the new branding is the first step in plans for \u201csome exciting new changes coming to US 99.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Kapugi added, \u201ceverything must pass the filter of what\u2019s hot,\u201d including the station\u2019s on-air imaging, talent and how it\u2019s marketed on the streets.<\/p>\n

The refreshment comes as US 99 faces stiff competition from iHeartMedia\u2019s WEBG FM 95.5,<\/a> which launched a competing country format in January 2015. In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, US 99.5 ranked 12th with a 3.0 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 1, 227,200, while Big 95.5 tied for 18th with 2.4 share and 966,400 weekly cume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first phase of rebranding CBS Radio country WUSN FM 99.5 rolled out Monday with the new slogan \u201cChicago\u2019s Hottest Country.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s important that we reflect today\u2019s country listener in everything we do,\u201d program director Jeff Kapugi said in a statement. \u201cThe artists, music and concerts are hot and now so is \u2018US 99 Chicago\u2019s... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12095,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12085\/revisions\/12095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}