Rumor has it a new morning team will be in place before the end of the year.
More changes at WLS... Looks like Biondi is staying in the same time slot and Jeff Davis will host JRL slot until a replacement can be found. JJ is still cracking the whip until Friday of this week. Rumor has it a new morning team will be in place before the end of the year.
Lets hope Brian does the right thing by expanding the playlist,re-adding great classic songs,let the jocks talk more and have some fun and move living legend Dick Biondi to evenings and let him entertain!
Lets hope Brian does the right thing by expanding the playlist,re-adding great classic songs,let the jocks talk more and have some fun and move living legend Dick Biondi to evenings and let him entertain!
If he really wants to win, he has to do the complete opposite.
K HITS and WLS have very similar playlists. Is their room for both these stations doing pretty much the same thing viable?
Dick Biondi could start his own business..making appearances on his own..maybe MC private parties..write a book..if he hasn't already.. He doesn't need to work an airshift really.. He could do a weekly special artist feature show .. or maybe a podcast like everyone else is doing... He's only on one rated hour for 11-2am. WLS uses him for daytime and evening appearances.. I think Landecker just wanted to bow out gracefully and move on to other projects.
How do we know Biondi is "set up for life" and does not need the job?
Most of us in our younger years in radio did not save (we spent our savings on U-Haul trucks and apartment deposits). If we were lucky, we got to a point where we could start saving, but many never did that.
I recall somewhere around 1974 getting a call when I was Ops Manager at KRUX in Phoenix, where we were doing an oldies based chicken rock format. The call was from Dick Biondi, who was out of work and really in need of a gig. We did not have anything, but I was glad to learn that he got something stable in Myrtle Beach... but that market had the population of Cicero!
Oh, Midnight to 2 AM is rated. It is just not included in the data given to the media.