WJMK FM 104.3, <\/a>which ranked sixth with a 4.0 share and 2,417,600 cume. The gap was wider among listeners between 25 and 54, with WLS FM tied for 18th with a 2.1 share and 554,900 cume, while K-Hits 104.3 ranked fourth with a 4.4 share and 802,600 cume.<\/p>\nJeffries, who also carried the title of senior vice president of corporate programming for Cumulus Media, came to WLS FM in September 2011 after the company acquired the station from Citadel Broadcasting. He switched the format from oldies to classic hits one year later.<\/p>\n
Billed as \u201cChicago\u2019s Classic Hits,\u201d WLS FM features an all-star lineup that includes John Records Landecker, Robert Murphy, Greg Brown, Brant Miller, Jack Diamond, Danny Lake and Radio Hall of Famer Dick Biondi. But following the rigid dictates of the station\u2019s format, the music always overshadows the talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have reinstated the heritage sound of WLS FM,\u201d Jeffries said of his tenure here. \u201cWe\u2019ve taken it to great heights. It\u2019s in great shape.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was Jeffries\u2019 second tour of duty as a Chicago radio programmer. Starting in 1984, he served as program director of WAGO, the short-lived Top 40 station owned by Cox Broadcasting, followed by his first stint at WLS FM under ABC ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Looking to bring new direction to its lagging classic hits station, Cumulus Media is about to change programming leadership at WLS FM 94.7. After four years as program director, Jan Jeffries has been transferred to WRQX, the company\u2019s Top 40 station in Washington, D.C., effective immediately.<\/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\/8158"}],"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=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8203,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}