unsuccessful run<\/a> earlier this year at Ed Volkman and Joe Colborn (the duo known as Eddie & Jobo), it\u2019s been clear the station\u2019s morning show was due for a shakeup.\u00a0In Nielsen Audio ratings released this week, WLS FM ranked 15th in mornings with a 2.8 percent share and a cumulative weekly audience of 440,700. That\u2019s substantially underperforming the station, which tied for seventh place overall with a 4.0 share and a weekly cume of 1,426,100.<\/p>\nDiamond, whose real name is Harvey Joel Fischer, was born in the Washington area and spent most of his career there, including 24 years on WRQX. After he was dropped in April 2013, he briefly hosted mornings on WLYF in Miami Gardens, Florida.<\/p>\n
In 2004 Diamond was tapped by news\/talk WLS AM 890 to join weekend host Teri O\u2019Brien when she filled in for morning personalities Don and Roma Wade. The Wades were off the air for seven weeks during protracted contract negotiations.<\/p>\n
Thursday afternoon update:<\/strong> Diamond\u2019s hiring, effective Monday, was confirmed in an email to staff. It included the following statement from Diamond:<\/p>\n\u201cAs a kid listening to the radio at night, WLS and WABC were the stations that sparked a desire to spend my life doing what those great personalities were doing from so many miles away.\u00a0 Pure magic. Hosting Mornings at 94.7 WLS is not only a career dream come true, it brings my career full circle and is truly 'going home.' \u00a0In a city with such great air talent through the years, it\u2019s an honor to join them, past and present in Chicago. Thanks to John Dickey, Mike McVay, Market Manager Donna Baker and the one and only Jan Jeffries, Cumulus SVP\/PD of WLS FM, for the enthusiastic welcome and great opportunity at such a legendary radio station.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Move over, Brant Miller: Jack Diamond is on his way. Diamond, 60, a longtime Washington, D.C., radio personality, is expected to be named morning host at WLS FM 94.7. Insiders said he\u2019ll start Monday on the Cumulus Media classic hits station, succeeding Miller from 5:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays.<\/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\/5502"}],"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=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}