{"id":27949,"date":"2020-12-20T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=27949"},"modified":"2020-12-20T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T00:32:03","slug":"former-wgn-radio-anchor-judy-pielach-joins-new-wls-radio-morning-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/12\/20\/former-wgn-radio-anchor-judy-pielach-joins-new-wls-radio-morning-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WGN Radio anchor Judy Pielach joins new WLS Radio morning show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27951\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/12\/20\/former-wgn-radio-anchor-judy-pielach-joins-new-wls-radio-morning-show\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27951\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27951\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-1024x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-1024x807.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-300x236.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-768x605.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-500x394.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-150x118.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-1200x945.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-400x315.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-800x630.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach-200x158.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Judy-Pielach.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Judy Pielach (Photo: Kristy Vicari)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Longtime Chicago radio news personality Judy Pielach has signed on as a contributor to the new Bruce St. James morning show at Cumulus Media news\/talk<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlsam.com\"> WLS 890-AM.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting Monday, Pielach will join St. James from 5:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays, rounding out a cast that includes news anchor Nick Gale and executive producer Midge Ripoli.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been two years since Pielach accepted a buyout from news\/talk WGN 720-AM and stepped down as afternoon news anchor at the former Tribune Broadcasting station. In 2017 she was inducted in the WGN Radio Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Maine North High School and Southern Illinois University, Pielach joined WGN in 1986 and held a variety of roles including news anchor, reporter, managing editor and program host.<\/p>\n<p>The move reunites Pielach with WLS program director Stephanie Tichenor, who worked with her when Tichenor was director of news and operations at WGN.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27950\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2020\/12\/20\/former-wgn-radio-anchor-judy-pielach-joins-new-wls-radio-morning-show\/bruce-st-james-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27950\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27950\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-27950\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-300x300.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-500x500.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-400x400.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-200x200.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-57x57.jpg 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-72x72.jpg 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-114x114.jpg 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James-144x144.jpg 144w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bruce-St.-James.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce St. James<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Calling Pielach a \u201cradio <em>force majeure<\/em> that has delivered the news to Chicago audiences for decades,\u201d Tichenor told staffers in an email: \u201cNow her strong voice, wit and wisdom will be heard every weekday morning on 890 WLS-AM. . . . Judy is a perfect match for Bruce. She\u2019s local, she\u2019s funny and she knows the news that Chicago is talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St. James, just in from Phoenix, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2020\/12\/14\/new-guy-bruce-st-james-launches-morning-show-wls-890-today\/\">launched<\/a> his new morning show one week ago. The Washington, D.C., native succeeded Erich Mancow Muller, who parted company with WLS in November after two years.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, WLS ranked 14th in mornings with a 2.4 percent share and a cumulative weekly audience of 133,200.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2020\/12\/18\/robservations-melissa-mcgurren-says-truth-will-come-mix-messages\/#comments\"> Burt Levy: <\/a><em>Since CBS 2 Chicago elected to part ways with Rob Johnson, Megan Glaros, Marissa Bailey and Pam Zekman, I have elected to part ways with CBS 2 Chicago. The disrespect they showed all \u2014 but especially Pam Zekman \u2014 was disgusting and disappointing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Chicago radio news personality Judy Pielach has signed on as a contributor to the new Bruce St. James morning show at Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS 890-AM. Starting Monday, Pielach will join St. James from 5:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays, rounding out a cast that includes news anchor Nick Gale and executive producer Midge Ripoli.<\/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\/27949"}],"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=27949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27957,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions\/27957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}