<\/a>Don Wade<\/p><\/div>\n
Ratings and revenue have declined at WLS since the station lost longtime morning stars Don Wade and Roma. Wade died in September 2013 after a nearly yearlong battle with brain cancer.<\/p>\n
\"I'm looking forward to joining WLS-AM,\u201d Howell said in a statement. \u201cIt has been a longtime professional, as well as personal, goal. Growing up in West Michigan and listening to WLS influenced my initial decision to give the radio business a try. Now, all these years later, and on the heels of many WLS broadcast legends, including Larry Lujack and Don Wade, it is truly an honor and a privilege. I'm also looking forward to sharing the WLS airwaves with Steve Dahl, who taught all of us to ignore management and hate disco.\"<\/p>\n
In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, WLS ranked 17th in mornings with a 2.2 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 193,000. WIND tied for 28th in mornings with a 1.1 share and 92,400 cume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s official: Big John Howell has wrapped up eight years at WIND AM 560\u00a0and is headed over to host mornings at rival news\/talk WLS AM 890. Cumulus Media announced Monday that Howell will replace Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft from 5 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday, starting January 19. News anchor John Dempsey, traffic... 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\/6307"}],"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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}