{"id":14616,"date":"2017-06-17T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=14616"},"modified":"2017-06-17T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T17:30:01","slug":"wendy-rice-exits-xrt-saturday-morning-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/06\/17\/wendy-rice-exits-xrt-saturday-morning-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Rice to exit WXRT's \u2018Saturday Morning Flashback\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Wendy Rice<\/p><\/div>\n

Wendy Rice, the voice of \u201cSaturday Morning Flashback\u201d on WXRT FM 93.1<\/a> for more than 30 years, is stepping down from the CBS Radio adult album alternative station.\u00a0Rice announced at the end of this week\u2019s show that next weekend\u2019s broadcast will be her last.<\/p>\n

Airing from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays, the program focuses on the music, movies, pop culture and news headlines of a particular year each week. Rice was onboard at its inception in 1985 and was named sole host and producer in 1991.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe opportunity to play great music every Saturday has kept me going, along with the support of the\u00a0loyal listeners who have stayed with us all these years,\u201d she said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cI am now looking forward to my \u2018retirement\u2019 \u2014 aka experiencing the novelty of a two-day weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting July 1, Frank E. Lee and Johnny Mars will rotate as hosts of \u201cSaturday Morning Flashback,\u201d which will be cut to three hours, airing from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturdays.<\/p>\n

Greg Solk, operations manager and program director of WXRT, called Rice \u201cChicago radio royalty,\u201d adding: \u201cHer Saturday morning show has been a staple of WXRT weekend programming and one of the most listened-to specialty shows in Chicago radio history. All of us thank Wendy for her years of brilliance both on and off the air.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rice, who\u2019s employed during the week as a middle school teacher, is married to Norm Winer, who was program director of WXRT from 1979 to 2016.<\/p>\n

A native of Champaign, Illinois, Rice attended the University of Illinois in her hometown and began as an intern at WXRT in 1978. After a radio stint in Peoria, she returned to \u2019XRT in 1982 as overnight and weekend personality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI've had a wonderful run at \u2018Chicago's Finest Rock,\u2019 working nights, weekends, and for years I got to fill in for vacationing DJs in every shift,\u201d she said. \u201cI married the boss in '87 \u2014 a CLM: career limiting move \u2014 have three amazing kids, and am dedicated to my weekday gig as a middle school teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her final \u201cSaturday Morning Flashback\u201d broadcast on June 24, Rice will feature 1978 \u2014 the year she interned at the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendy Rice, the voice of \u201cSaturday Morning Flashback\u201d on WXRT FM 93.1 for more than 30 years, is stepping down from the CBS Radio adult album alternative station.\u00a0Rice announced at the end of this week\u2019s show that next weekend\u2019s broadcast will be her last. Airing from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays, the program focuses on... 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\/14616"}],"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=14616"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14624,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}