There are a ton of different ways to spin the WGN ratings story. First of all is the PPM method which is too technical to get into here. Then you have the general demise of AM radio. WBBM avoids both of those trends with great programming of the all news format and decades of Chicago radio history behind it. I think the \"Trump bashing\" and \u201cliberal\" as the reasons behind the ratings drop only goes so far. If that were the case WLS AM should be doing a a lot better than they are. What ever your political leanings I think we should root for WGN. Say what you will they have live, local programming 24 hrs a day. No syndication. No one from the outside. I believe WLS does two local shows a day. Big John [Howell] and Ray [Stevens] and Steve [Dahl] in the afternoon. I like both shows but am not a fan of syndication regardless of its viewpoint. It\u2019s ironic that these WGN ratings happen just as Sinclair prepares to take control.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Eddie Olczyk, the former Chicago Blackhawks center turned sports broadcaster, is joining ESPN Radio sports\/talk WMVP AM 1000 as co-host of David Kaplan\u2019s midday show. Starting this week, he'll appear with Kaplan from 9 a.m. to noon two days a week (generally Mondays and Fridays). Jim Pastor, vice president and... 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\/18439"}],"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=18439"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}