<\/a>Mancow Muller<\/p><\/div>\n
One of the first to react to the news was Mancow Muller, morning personality on The Loop. Nyren was general manager of Q101 in 2006 when \u201cMancow\u2019s Morning Madhouse\u201d was dropped by Emmis Communications after six years. \u201cIf you\u2019ve ever watched \u2018American Psycho\u2019 and thought Patrick Bateman would be a perfect boss, then you\u2019d love Marv Nyren,\u201d Muller said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Nyren\u2019s appointment comes one week after Cumulus filed with the FCC to acquire the licenses of The Loop and 101WKQX from Merlin Media. Since 2014 Cumulus has been operating the two stations under a local marketing agreement with Merlin.<\/p>\n
All four Cumulus Chicago stations have seen better days. In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, The Loop and 101WKQX tied for 12th place with a 2.9 share, WLS FM was in 15th place with a 2.8 share, and WLS AM was in 26th place with a 1.5 share. WLS AM is the radio home of Chicago Bulls basketball and Chicago White Sox baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marv Nyren, who headed classic rock WLUP FM 97.9 and alternative rock WKQX FM 101.1 for seven years under Emmis Communications, is back in charge of both stations, now owned by Cumulus Media. As the new vice president and market manager of Cumulus Media Chicago, Nyren will be running The Loop and 101WKQX in addition... 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\/15858"}],"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=15858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15866,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions\/15866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}