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Fox News Radio In Chicago
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Jennifer isn't with WLS anymore.
Ms. Keiper has worked at FNR for at least a year. She was reporting from Cairo, Ill. in early May 2011 when the Army Corps of Engineers "operated" the Birds' Point floodway.
Hello and here are the facts from the source:
I worked for WBBM AM/FM until 2003 when I left to join WLS in 2003 as a reporter/anchor.
I was the WLS News Director when 20 staff members, including myself, were laid off in February 2008 due to a new company taking over (Citadel).
I joined Fox News Radio, shortly after that.
So your take is correct - no conflict of interest.
Thank you for asking.
-Jennifer Keiper
I worked for WBBM AM/FM until 2003 when I left to join WLS in 2003 as a reporter/anchor.
I was the WLS News Director when 20 staff members, including myself, were laid off in February 2008 due to a new company taking over (Citadel).
I joined Fox News Radio, shortly after that.
So your take is correct - no conflict of interest.
Thank you for asking.
-Jennifer Keiper
Thanks for checking in, Jen... What actually led me to this inquiry was, well, apparently, when WLS let you go, they never deleted your page from their website!
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=152534&spid=6789
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=152534&spid=6789
I was in Chicago last weekend and listened around as much as I could. WIND ran 2 minutes of Fox News at the top of the hour. During the day it was followed by local news traffic and weather.
In the evening they ran the same 2 minute news from Fox News followed by a traffic and weather report exactly 60 seconds long. They sound recorded and loaded in to the system and played at the set time.
WYLL is less rigid depending on the paid show they are airing. If the show is a full hour show, there was no news. If it was one that would start at 4-6 past the hour SRN news was used. They were from what I recall a 2 or 3 minute newscast.
WMBI FM runs SRN news, when I checked overnight, I can't verify the daytime hours, is at :55. They run a four minute newscast followed by a 30 second spot and then a weather update and station ID.
May I ask about WLUP? When did they become all classic rock? They play no new music, very litlle hard rock either. I heard The Eagles and others bands like them, every time I checked. WJMK sounds like an oldies station again, The Drive plays more hard rock than the loop. What is the deal there?
In the evening they ran the same 2 minute news from Fox News followed by a traffic and weather report exactly 60 seconds long. They sound recorded and loaded in to the system and played at the set time.
WYLL is less rigid depending on the paid show they are airing. If the show is a full hour show, there was no news. If it was one that would start at 4-6 past the hour SRN news was used. They were from what I recall a 2 or 3 minute newscast.
WMBI FM runs SRN news, when I checked overnight, I can't verify the daytime hours, is at :55. They run a four minute newscast followed by a 30 second spot and then a weather update and station ID.
May I ask about WLUP? When did they become all classic rock? They play no new music, very litlle hard rock either. I heard The Eagles and others bands like them, every time I checked. WJMK sounds like an oldies station again, The Drive plays more hard rock than the loop. What is the deal there?
WJMK dropped the Jack format and changed back to a mostly 70s & 80s format (with a little 60s thrown in). This happened in March 2011.
The ratings haven't been very good as WLS-FM has them beat. Leaving that format in 2005 cost WJMK big.
The ratings haven't been very good as WLS-FM has them beat. Leaving that format in 2005 cost WJMK big.
Going back to Nashville said:
The deal is that when Bonneville sold the Loop to Emmis (Merlin now owns it), the Drive became the Loop's competitor, not its cohort. With no need to protect the Loop's audience, they started playing harder music. (And Hubbard now owns the Drive--and TMX and Rewind.)
DtotheJ -
Guess you can tell how often I bother to check their website. LOL
Guess you can tell how often I bother to check their website. LOL
I know what your saying Mark, your right.Mark Jeffries said:
I was more or less trying to say what a letdown The Loop is to me now. No live people outside of mornings, all the same, and I hate to say stale because I like it, Classic Rock.
The Drive does a good job of it, the one-two punch of the two together was much more to my liking.
The Loop to me, as a brand, does not invoke a positive reaction like it used too. I really liked it when they were classic, some "classic rock that rocks", and new rock.
I first Hard To Handle by the Black Crows and Life is a Highway by Tom Cochran on The Loop.
Now, the it's the same few classic rock bands over and over.
Of course this is just one man's view. When you look at their PPM numbers, what they are doing is working very well for them.
They just don't give me any reason to tune in anymore. I find The Drive to be a much better station, musically and talent wise, Stroud and Skafish and all. To see they let Byrd go was really the end for me.
My Mr. Microphone has six times the cume of FM News 101.1 LOL ;DDToTheJ said:
Going back to Nashville said:
Only six times? ;D
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