{"id":26772,"date":"2020-09-04T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=26772"},"modified":"2020-09-04T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T22:18:45","slug":"suddenly-silenced-big-95-5-lisa-dent-thankful-diehard-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/09\/04\/suddenly-silenced-big-95-5-lisa-dent-thankful-diehard-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly silenced by Big 95.5, Lisa Dent thankful to her 'diehard fans'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Lisa Dent<\/p><\/div>\n

Lisa Dent, who's been synonymous with country music radio in Chicago for nearly two decades, never got to say goodbye to her fans.<\/p>\n

As midday personality at WEBG 95.5-FM,<\/a> Dent was among the casualties when iHeartMedia pulled the plug <\/a>on the station's country format Thursday and switched to rock. It's now branded as \"Rock 95 Five.\"<\/p>\n

\"I\u2019m so thankful to all of my diehard fans who follow me from station to station, listen in their car everyday and support the businesses I endorse,\" Dent told me. \"I see them, hear them and carry so much gratitude for their love.<\/p>\n

\"Unfortunately, less than 4,000 people determine the radio ratings for over 9 million radio listeners in Chicagoland, so their voice is never heard. They simply don\u2019t get a vote on what Chicago radio should sound like. It\u2019s a crazy business but I still love it and working with the crew at iHeart Chicago was a blast!\"<\/p>\n

Dent learned she lost her job while she was at a hospital standing vigil with her mother, who has been in an intensive care unit for an undisclosed ailment.<\/p>\n

\"But honestly, it\u2019s probably harder to give that news than to receive it,\" she added.<\/p>\n

Dent grew up in Rockford and worked in Minneapolis, San Diego and Seattle before joining Entercom country WUSN 99.5-FM as midday host in 2002. From 2006 to 2016 she co-hosted mornings at US99 with Ramblin\u2019 Ray Stevens. In 2016 she was inducted in the Country Radio Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

She joined Big 95.5 in 2018 as weekend and fill-in host and was promoted to middays later that year.<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, middays on Big 95.5 tied for 19th place overall with a 2.0 percent share and a cumulative weekly audience of 275,600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa Dent, who's been synonymous with country music radio in Chicago for nearly two decades, never got to say goodbye to her fans. As midday personality at WEBG 95.5-FM, Dent was among the casualties when iHeartMedia pulled the plug on the station's country format Thursday and switched to rock. It's now branded as \"Rock 95... 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\/26772"}],"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=26772"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26779,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions\/26779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}