<\/a>Franklyn MacCormack<\/p><\/div>\n
In the decade after World War II ended, television rose to power and WGN was in the forefront of redefining radio as a medium of personalities rather than programs.<\/p>\n
Veteran announcers such as Franklyn MacCormack and Pierre Andre made the transition to program hosts, while the station maintained its high profile in sports with the likes of Bob Elson, Jack Brickhouse and Vince Lloyd.<\/p>\n
Today, WGN remains the most popular \u2014 and probably the most profitable \u2014 radio station in Chicago, best known as the home of the Cubs and of morning kingpin Wally Phillips.<\/p>\n
Together with its other stars, including talk hosts Roy Leonard, Bob Collins and Ed Schwartz, WGN now faces the task of attracting a new generation of listeners to its spot on the little box that picks sounds from the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The formal dedication of the WGN Radio Walk of Fame Friday will coincide with the 90th anniversary celebration of Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk flagship\u00a0WGN AM 720. Honored with plaques embedded in the pavement outside Tribune Tower will be the inaugural group of station legends: Quin Ryan, Jack Brickhouse, Wally Phillips, Orion Samuelson, Roy Leonard, Milt Rosenberg,... 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\/3872"}],"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=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}