{"id":33601,"date":"2022-06-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=33601"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:00:00","slug":"afternoon-host-marty-lennartz-moving-mornings-93-xrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2022\/06\/07\/afternoon-host-marty-lennartz-moving-mornings-93-xrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon host Marty Lennartz moving to mornings on 93 XRT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marty Lennartz<\/p><\/div>\n

Marty Lennartz, a lifelong Chicagoan whose four decades at WXRT 93.1-FM<\/a> began as producer of Terri Hemmert\u2019s morning show, is about to become morning host himself at the Audacy adult album alternative station.<\/p>\n

Starting Monday, Lennartz will shift from afternoons to mornings at 93 XRT, succeeding Richard Milne, who\u2019s leaving<\/a> to care for his ailing wife. Milne\u2019s last day on the air will be Friday.<\/p>\n

Taking over the afternoon shift Monday will be Annalisa Parziale, just hired<\/a> from WXRV in Boston.<\/p>\n

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Annalisa Parziale<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited about doing mornings on XRT and following in the footsteps of three of my best friends, Terri Hemmert, Lin Brehmer and Richard Milne,\u201d Lennartz said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started my career getting up early to produce Terri Hemmert\u2019s morning show after being her student at Columbia College, and now all these years later I get to host the show. I\u2019m looking forward to long summer days, short summer nights and getting things started daily on XRT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following his years as morning producer, Lennartz became overnight host and later creative assistant to programming. His roles also included host of \u201cThe Big Beat\u201d and \u201cLive from Studio X\u201d as well as the movie reviewer known as \u201cThe Regular Guy.\u201d In 2015 he succeeded Frank E. Lee as afternoon host.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarty has exemplified excellence at every move during his 40-plus year career at WXRT,\u201d Laura Duncan, brand manager and program director of 93 XRT, said in a statement. \u201cChicago will start the day with a friend they\u2019ve known for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey 93 XRT ranked 10th in mornings with a 3.2 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 220,400.<\/p>\n

Here is the text of Duncan\u2019s email to staff:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colleagues,<\/em><\/p>\n

As we announced a few weeks ago, Richard Milne will be stepping back to be with his wife Charlene. Richard's last day on the air will be this Friday, June 10th. We would like to thank Richard for his years of excellence presenting Chicago's Finest Rock. Richard will always be a member of the WXRT family.<\/em><\/p>\n

On June 13th, Marty Lennartz will make the move to mornings. Marty has done a stellar job in his 4 decades with WXRT and has enjoyed success as the host of a variety of dayparts. As Marty said, \"I couldn't be more excited about doing mornings on XRT and following in the footsteps of three of my best friends, Terri Hemmert, Lin Brehmer and Richard Milne.\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Annalisa, announced last week as the newest addition to the on-air lineup at WXRT, will join the best team in the world as the new afternoon host. We're excited to welcome Annalisa to Chicago!<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you all for your support and enthusiasm as we grow.<\/em><\/p>\n

Laura<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Mark Mardell:<\/strong> As someone who only listens to the radio while in my car, I am amazed by the numbers. [WRTO has] 11,900 listeners per week, and that makes them 57th in the market. This indicates that quite a few people are finding joy on their AM or FM dial, while I channel surf trying to find listenable music.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marty Lennartz, a lifelong Chicagoan whose four decades at WXRT 93.1-FM began as producer of Terri Hemmert\u2019s morning show, is about to become morning host himself at the Audacy adult album alternative station. Starting Monday, Lennartz will shift from afternoons to mornings at 93 XRT, succeeding Richard Milne, who\u2019s leaving to care for his ailing... 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\/33601"}],"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=33601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33607,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33601\/revisions\/33607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}