{"id":19504,"date":"2018-10-11T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19504"},"modified":"2018-10-11T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:10:14","slug":"kathy-hart-fill-wgn-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/10\/11\/kathy-hart-fill-wgn-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hart to fill in on WGN Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Kathy Hart (Photo: Fox 32)<\/p><\/div>\n

Kathy Hart, the former Chicago radio morning star who\u2019s been a free agent since her highly publicized breakup<\/a> with Eric Ferguson, is getting a shot as a talk show host on WGN 720-AM.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hart will appear as guest co-host three times in the coming weeks alongside weekend host Frank Fontana on the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station. They\u2019ll be on during Fontana\u2019s regular show from 1 to 3 p.m. this Sunday and October 28, and they\u2019ll fill in for John Williams from 1 to 3 p.m. October 17.<\/p>\n

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Frank Fontana<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cSince Kathy is passionate about so many topics that are part of the fabric of the \u2018Frank Fontana Show,\u2019 we wanted to get them talking on WGN,\u201d said Todd Manley, station manager and vice president of content at WGN.<\/p>\n

Whether there\u2019s a future for Hart on WGN remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Except for a few appearances on \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the morning show on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32, Hart has been out of the limelight since she split with Ferguson, her morning show partner for 21 years on Hubbard Radio hot adult-contemporary WTMX 101.9-FM .<\/p>\n

Hart left \u201cThe Eric & Kathy Show\u201d in April 2017 for reasons that never were made clear. In September of that year, The Mix officially severed ties with her and retitled the show \u201cEric in the Morning with Melissa & Whip.\u201d<\/p>\n

As hosts of Chicago\u2019s top-rated morning show, Ferguson and Hart were winners of every major award in the industry. Twice they were named Major Market Personalities of the Year in the National Association of Broadcasters\u2019 Marconi Awards. In 2016 they were inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Hart had been teasing her comeback in recent days with a series of cryptic posts on Facebook<\/a> and Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Thursday she wrote:<\/a> \"Dusting off the headphones to come out to play! . . . Thrilled because I\u2019ve missed radio, slightly terrified because it\u2019s been soooo long, and honored because it\u2019s frickin\u2019 W. G. N.!!!\"<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Catherine Johns:<\/strong> Your story about Morgan Kolkmeyer reminded me of P.J. Hoff, who illustrated his Channel 2 weather reports with drawings. He came to my Glenview grade school when we were studying weather in science class. And I got a drawing of a huffing and puffing thundercloud! I was one thrilled third-grader.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathy Hart, the former Chicago radio morning star who\u2019s been a free agent since her highly publicized breakup with Eric Ferguson, is getting a shot as a talk show host on WGN 720-AM. Hart will appear as guest co-host three times in the coming weeks alongside weekend host Frank Fontana on the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk... 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\/19504"}],"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=19504"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19511,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions\/19511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}