<\/a>John Williams<\/p><\/div>\n
All of the moves mark the first major programming realignment under Sean Compton, who was named executive vice president overseeing the station after Nexstar Media Group acquired Tribune Media in September.<\/p>\n
Leff and Snyder were first paired as evening hosts on the former WLUP 97.9-FM in 1994. Two years later they moved to mornings on WKQX 101.1-FM. At Q101, they were just gaining traction in the ratings when they were dumped for Mancow Muller in 1998. WGN reunited them in 2013.<\/p>\n
Davlantes spent nine years as a reporter and weekend news anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, followed by four years as a news anchor and host of \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. She joined WGN as a featured contributor to Cochran's morning show in 2014.<\/p>\n
Williams, who once worked as a college intern for WGN morning superstar Wally Phillips, has been a mainstay of the station since 1997.<\/p>\n
In the latest Nielsen Audio survey WGN was in ninth place overall with a 3.5 percent audience share. In middays \u2014 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u2014 the station ranked 12th with a 3.3 share.<\/p>\n
Here is the text of Boyle\u2019s email to staff:<\/strong><\/p>\nWe are making some program changes effective Monday, Dec. 2.\u00a0 Our emphasis, as always, is to be local, and we think these changes will serve our listeners well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nAmong the changes you\u2019ll notice that we will begin simulcasting WGN-TV\u2019s morning news from 4 am to 5 am.\u00a0 Steve Cochran\u2019s show will start an hour earlier, at 5 am, and the John Williams show will run from 9 am to Noon. Ji will host the Wintrust Business Lunch and Anna will be leaving afternoon drive to host her own show from 1 pm to 3 pm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nChange means making difficult choices, and unfortunately there is not a place for everyone in this new line-up.\u00a0 Tonight we are saying farewell to Bill and Wendy. Please join me in wishing them well and thanking them for their years of service to WGN and their loyal audience.<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nThanks for your help and support as we move forward.<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nMary<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nThe new Monday through Friday WGN program schedule is below:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n4am \u2013 5am: WGN Radio simulcast of WGN-TV Early Morning News\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n5am \u2013 9am: Steve Cochran\u00a0<\/em>
\n9am \u2013 Noon: John Williams\u00a0<\/em>
\nNoon \u2013 1pm: Wintrust Business Lunch, hosted by\u00a0Ji\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n1pm \u2013 3pm: Anna Davlantes\u00a0<\/em>
\n3pm \u2013 7pm: Roe Conn\u00a0<\/em>
\n7pm \u2013 11pm: Justin Kaufmann\u00a0<\/em>
\n11pm \u2013 4am: Nick Digilio\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nMary Sandberg Boyle\u00a0<\/em>
\nDirector of News and Operations<\/em>
\nWGN Radio\u00a0|\u00a0Chicago<\/em><\/p>\nWednesday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Dan Haley:<\/strong> Happy to hear the Reader's announcement that they are moving ahead with a non-profit model. As Rob Feder has previously reported, Wednesday Journal, Inc., publisher of four community pubs, is already on the road to this exciting, necessary transition. We welcome vital colleagues like the Reader to this still new route to sustainable independent community journalism. This is going to be fun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The affable duo of Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder, who've been Chicago radio partners on and off for 25 years, were cut Wednesday as midday co-hosts on WGN 720-AM. The move came as the Nexstar Media Group news\/talk station unveiled a revamped daytime lineup set to take effect December 2.<\/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\/23561"}],"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=23561"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23573,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions\/23573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}