{"id":2989,"date":"2014-04-07T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2014-04-07T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T21:07:16","slug":"new-stars-at-night-on-wgci-v103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/04\/07\/new-stars-at-night-on-wgci-v103\/","title":{"rendered":"New stars at night on WGCI, V103"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"DJ<\/a>

<\/a> DJ MoonDawg<\/p><\/div>\n

The two top-rated evening shows on Chicago radio aren\u2019t resting on their laurels. Clear Channel programmers changed their nighttime lineups this week at both urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5<\/a> and urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7.<\/a><\/p>\n

DJ MoonDawg,<\/a> a rising star among hip hop deejays, has been named host of WGCI\u2019s new evening show from 7 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday. He succeeds Al B. Sylk, who left the station, and Chris Michaels, who shifts to V103.<\/p>\n

A Chicago native, former Marine and graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, DJ MoonDawg (whose real name is Michael Muniz) joined WGCI as an intern and quickly moved up to on-air personality\/mixer. He most recently was on from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe lives the lifestyle, knows the audience and he\u2019s full of refreshing ideas,\u201d WGCI program director Kenard Karter said of DJ MoonDawg. \u201cI believe he\u2019ll rewrite the way talent integrates listeners into our radio brand with his strong grasp of social media, energy and passion for the format.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/a>

Chris Michaels<\/p><\/div>\n

Michaels, a 13-year veteran who\u2019d hosted \u201cWhispers in the Dark\u201d from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. weekdays on WGCI, takes over V103\u2019s \u201cThe Quiet Storm\u201d from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. Keith Sweat\u2019s syndicated \u201cThe Sweat Hotel\u201d moves to 2 to 5 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris is one of the best entertainers I\u2019ve had the pleasure of working with,\u201d Derrick Brown, director of urban programming for Clear Channel Chicago, said in a statement. \u201cI have no doubt he will continue to captivate listeners with his unique brand of conversation and the best slow jams in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michaels isn\u2019t the first WGCI personality to shift to V103. Connie \u201cConsuella\u201d Williams, who previously hosted nighttime on WGCI, moved to middays on V103 last year.<\/p>\n

The changes at both stations appear designed to reinforced their respective formats and solidify their target audiences at night, with WGCI dominating the 18-to-34 demographic and V103 dominating the 25-to-54 demo.<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, V103 led the market in evenings with an 8.3 percent share of all listeners and a cumulative weekly audience of 440,600. WGCI ranked second with a 6.3 share and a weekly cume of 562,200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two top-rated evening shows on Chicago radio aren\u2019t resting on their laurels. Clear Channel programmers changed their nighttime lineups this week at both urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5 and urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7. DJ MoonDawg, a rising star among hip hop deejays, has been named host of WGCI\u2019s new evening show from 7... 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\/2989"}],"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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}