went after WGN AM 720 <\/a>with a vengeance on a recent podcast. Of his soon-to-be rivals at the Tribune Media news\/talk station, he told listeners: \u201cIt\u2019s like the worst radio station ever now. It\u2019s as bad as it was when I got to town in 1978, only it\u2019s people my age and younger doing it \u2014 committing these heinous broadcasting crimes.\u201d He was especially critical of Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder, who'll be his direct competitors in afternoons.<\/p>\nConn recently marked his 25th year with WLS. Since April 2010, Roeper, the Sun-Times columnist and movie critic, has been Conn\u2019s full-time afternoon partner. Their contracts are up at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, WLS tied for 23rd in afternoons with a 1.6 percent share and a cumulative weekly audience of 191,400. Overall, the station tied for 24th with a 1.4 share and weekly cume of 362,100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Six years after he signed off from over-the-air radio, Chicago broadcast legend Steve Dahl is about to make a comeback on WLS AM 890, sources said. An announcement could come this week that Dahl, 59, will join\u00a0the Cumulus Media news\/talk station\u00a0as afternoon personality, replacing Roe Conn and Richard Roeper from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday... 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\/5248"}],"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=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}