merger <\/a>with Entercom Communications last week to create a new company encompassing 244 stations, including 23 of the top 25 markets.<\/p>\nThe position of program director at WXRT has been vacant since January 2016 when Norm Winer was reassigned after more than 35 years in the job. Winer left the company last March. Mitch Rosen, program director of sports\/talk WSCR AM 670, has been overseeing program operations at WXRT in the interim.<\/p>\n
Solk, a Chicago native, began his radio career in 1977 as a weekend and summer intern at classic rock\u00a0WLUP FM 97.9. Two years later \u2014 while still attending Niles North High School in Skokie \u2014 he became a producer for Steve Dahl\u2019s morning show on The Loop. In 1983 at age 21, Solk was promoted to program director of The Loop.<\/p>\n
Except for a two-year stint at KFOG in San Francisco, Solk has spent his entire career in his hometown.<\/p>\n
In 2001 Solk created the classic hits format on WDRV FM 97.1, which targeted men between 35 and 54 by combining a unique blend of music styles with a brilliantly simple marketing message\u00a0 \u2014 to \u201crespect the music.\u201d Practically overnight The Drive became hugely successful and inspired similar stations nationwide.<\/p>\n
From 2004 until last year, Solk headed national programming for Bonneville and later Hubbard. In addition to The Drive, he also oversaw hot adult-contemporary WTMX FM 101.9 and adult contemporary WSHE FM 100.3 in Chicago.<\/p>\n
In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, WXRT tied for 14th place with a 2.3 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 231,100. K-Hits tied for 10th with a 2.4 share and 299,800 weekly cume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greg Solk, the nationally acclaimed radio programmer who\u2019s been the creative force behind The Drive, The Loop and other iconic brands, has been hired as operations manager and program director of adult album alternative WXRT FM 93.1 and classic hits WJMK FM 104.3, CBS Radio Chicago announced Thursday. \u201cI have been blessed in my career... 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\/13395"}],"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=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13400,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}