announced<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week that he was not renewing his contract after two years at WLS.\u00a0\u201cMuch of the enjoyment I had left doing radio has been sucked out of it,\u201d he told me. \"For me, no interaction has been the radio kiss of death.\u00a0Talking during this political season and hearing endless tales of woe from my listeners has been radio without joy.\u201d<\/p>\nIn the latest Nielsen Audio survey WLS tied for 15th place in mornings with a 2.4 percent audience share.<\/p>\n
Here is the text of Tichenor \u2019s email to staff:<\/strong><\/p>\n890 WLS-AM has been serving our Chicagoland audiences for 96 years. From John Landecker to Roe Conn to Mancow, every host has left his mark on the Big '89 and none more so than Rush Limbaugh.\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nIn our 97th year, we are changing. 2021 is the year we bring the focus back to who matters most - our listeners.\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nAnd the dialogue\u00a0begins on Dec 14th at 5:30am\u00a0when our new morning show host, Bruce St. James, opens the mic on the New '89.\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nBruce St. James is here to have a conversation, not a lecture. He is not here to change formats. He is here to continue what 890 already does best - inform and entertain our listeners.\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nBruce started in radio at the age of 17 and has worked both sides of the microphone as a DJ,\u00a0Host and Program Director. For\u00a0 the last 10 years, he was a media mainstay in Phoenix, AZ where he hosted The Bruce St James Show on News-Talk KTAR News 92.3\/Phoenix.\u00a0<\/em>
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\nA native of\u00a0 both Washington, DC and Tucson, Bruce spent most of his life on the West Coast including Los Angeles, San Diego and Phoenix.\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nBruce knows radio. And, now Chicago will know Bruce.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce St. James, who's been a radio talk show host in Phoenix for 10 years, has been tapped to replace Erich Mancow Muller as morning personality at WLS 890-AM. St. James will join the Cumulus Media news\/talk station December 14, according to Marv Nyren, vice president and market manager of Cumulus Media Chicago. Muller's last... 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\/27641"}],"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=27641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27649,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27641\/revisions\/27649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}