{"id":19877,"date":"2018-11-12T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2018-11-12T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:15:06","slug":"kachinske-program-director-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/11\/12\/kachinske-program-director-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Kachinske out as program director at The Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19878\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/11\/12\/kachinske-program-director-mix\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19878\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19878\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-1024x615.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-300x180.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-768x461.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-500x300.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-150x90.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-1200x720.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-400x240.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-800x480.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mary-Ellen-Kachinske-200x120.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Mary Ellen Kachinske<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mary Ellen Kachinske, one of Chicago radio\u2019s longest-tenured and most successful program directors, is out after more than 18 years at<a href=\"https:\/\/wtmx.com\">\u00a0WTMX 101.9-FM, <\/a>the Hubbard Radio hot adult-contemporary station.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff England, vice president and market manager of Hubbard Radio Chicago, told staffers Monday that Kachinske has left the company effective immediately.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank Mary Ellen for her contributions to the success of Mix 101.9 and wish her the best for the future,\" England said in a statement. \"Our search for the next great programming leader for Mix 101.9 begins today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nikki Chuminatto, music director of The Mix, will serve as interim program director.<\/p>\n<p>Kachinske did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>No reason was cited for Kachinske's departure, but the move coincides with a recent dip in audience ratings for The Mix. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2018\/10\/30\/chicago-radio-ratings-another-big-victory-v103\/\">latest Nielsen Audio survey<\/a>, the station ranked fifth overall with a 4.6 percent share. Among listeners between 25 and 54, The Mix fell behind Univision regional Mexican WOJO 105.1-FM for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Kachinske joined The Mix as assistant program director in 2000 from WQAL in Cleveland. She was promoted to program director in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ellen Kachinske, one of Chicago radio\u2019s longest-tenured and most successful program directors, is out after more than 18 years at\u00a0WTMX 101.9-FM, the Hubbard Radio hot adult-contemporary station. Jeff England, vice president and market manager of Hubbard Radio Chicago, told staffers Monday that Kachinske has left the company effective immediately.<\/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\/19877"}],"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=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19881,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions\/19881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}