{"id":6989,"date":"2015-02-27T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2015-02-27T06:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T12:04:40","slug":"waiting-game-begins-will-mancow-join-the-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/02\/27\/waiting-game-begins-will-mancow-join-the-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming up next: Will Mancow join The Loop?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Erich Mancow Muller<\/p><\/div>\n

Erich Mancow Muller wraps up his weeklong tryout as morning personality at\u00a0WLUP FM 97.9 <\/a>Friday knowing just one thing for certain: He won\u2019t be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

Other than that, the longtime Chicago radio personality swears he has no idea whether the job will be offered to him permanently \u2014 or whether he and his agent can come to terms with bosses of the Cumulus Media classic rock station if they do.<\/p>\n

As the fourth \u201ccontestant\u201d in what\u2019s billed as The Loop\u2019s Morning Show Search,<\/a> Muller has been widely regarded as the favorite from the outset. The others were Abe Kanan, Shadoe Stevens and Liz Wilde.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, they have to tell me they want me,\u201d Muller said Thursday. \u201cPeople have been asking if this contest a sham. I don\u2019t know. Cumulus is a huge company and I\u2019m just a guy doing a week of radio for fun at this point. What has to happen [to make a deal] is all the logistical stuff that nobody likes. Can it be put together? I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you were a fan of \u201cMancow\u2019s Morning Madhouse\u201d 20 years ago, then you probably liked what you heard this week. Surrounded by his old cohorts, Muller, 48, reprised many of his familiar bits and trademark pranks. True to form, he declared himself a great success.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am shocked that I can still do entertainment-based rock radio,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been basically a decade. I don\u2019t think people realize how long it\u2019s been. So everybody came together without ego. The world has beaten up my crew pretty good. There was no ego like there was in the past. And it was just an absolute ball. It was as good as radio can get. The show that I thought could conquer the world 10 years ago felt and sounded better than ever to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Loop\u2019s morning slot has been open since last September when the station revamped its lineup and parted company with Benjamin Bornstein, known on the air as Maxwell.<\/p>\n

Once among Chicago\u2019s biggest radio stars, Muller was a publicity magnet at the former WRCX, then at WKQX FM 101.1<\/a> and later at WLS AM 890.<\/a> He\u2019s been off the air since last October, when his morning show on Fox-owned WPWR-Channel 50<\/a> ended a two-year run.<\/p>\n

Muller insists his only goal is getting through the week. \u201cThere is no deal,\u201d he said, adding facetiously: \u201cI had forgotten how delightful the alarm going off at 2:30 in the morning is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erich Mancow Muller wraps up his weeklong tryout as morning personality at\u00a0WLUP FM 97.9 Friday knowing just one thing for certain: He won\u2019t be back on Monday. Other than that, the longtime Chicago radio personality swears he has no idea whether the job will be offered to him permanently \u2014 or whether he and his... 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\/6989"}],"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=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}