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Geoff Pinkus' "Chicago Overnight" show is out.

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Last night was the final show for Geoff Pinkus and his Chicago Overnight show. There are a lot of stories floating
around as to why the show ended, I don't know what the real reason is though, so I won't speculate.

I really liked his show and thought it was great that a station was willing to try in this day and age to do a live, local
overnight show. I guess it's back to more vanilla syndicated shows for WIND. I'm not knocking syndicated shows, but,
Geoff's show was starting to click with people, and bringing a lot of buzz to the station. That is something that WIND
really need's.

Like I said I don't know the facts behind his departure, but if it was Salem's decision, it was not a good one!
 
Any idea if he will still be on Sunday night ?

I never heard his overnight weekday show, I wanted too but I work the wrong shift and I love sleeping all night.

Just started listening to his Sunday night show and found it kind of entertaining, kind of reminds me of that wacky Ric (sic) Federighi on WIMS.

So long Pinker good luck with the next gig, maybe apply at LS.......
 
Yes, Geoff's Sunday night show will still be on from 6:30-9.The start times on Sunday vary a little bit due to sports.

I only got to listen to The Livin' Large Sunday show once, and I liked it, but, I can't usually listen to the radio at that
time. I am sure going to try this Sunday though.
 
I won't miss him, myself. He always sounded like he was screaming. I was miffed Dennis Prager was interrupted, anyway. Dennis is far more intellectual than Pinkus.
 
I'm surprised he's out, a little.
He lost me when he got rid of Bonnie. She was quick and got in all sorts of asides. So she was a good foil for Geoff. He's avuncular, but vague, repetitive, kinda full of it with the sucking-up to guests.
Seems he got the show on a brokered basis and as a tie-in to the condo sales promotions which were his business. But it was sort of a bad sign he was always promoting his wife's ordinary realtor thing. It made you wonder if the radio show had real advertising revenue.
Dan Levy - the Sports guy. Bird-X(?)(!) Chief sponsor a dog service to run geese off ponds?
Don Kauffman with the tabloid-rag celeb stories. She had the scoop on all that interesting trash.
She knew more about Ryan O'Neal vis-a-vis Farrah Fawcett's death than other sources. He wanted to marry her at the end to get the spouse share of her estate. But she left him out. And she took a pass on the colostomy that might've saved her.
Pretty much, Geoff tried to build the show guest-by-guest, sponsor-by-sponsor, listener-by-listener. But you don't get forever on the station's dime.
 
I never heard the overnight show and only have heard 2 Sunday night shows but it seems ok, the way Daniel G makes it sound it may have been train wreckish, No ?
 
I thought it was a good show, it was live and local, and Geoff was just an everyday guy just shooting
from the hip. It was nice to have an alternative to all the syndicated shows. It was also nice to have
two live and local shows. Steve and Johnnie tend to bore me with the road tests and the website Wednesday's.
I am not knocking them, I do listen to them, and they seem like nice people, but Geoff had a different type of
show. I found it much more entertaining.

I think with all the people that are awake on the third shift, Chicago could sustain 2 live shows at night.
The saddest part of the story is that he was replaced with the same ol' run of the mill syndication.

His overnight show was not brokered, it was a revenue share, in which Salem was supposed to sell spots,
and Geoff would also sell spots and try to bring in new sponsors. I still don't know under their arrangement if
Geoff got a paycheck from Salem for hosting or if he just got his portion of the sales revenue. Geoff did
have a few new sponsors toward the end. It was probably not enough to keep him from pursuing other
things, and from listening it did not appear that WIND was making much of an effort to sell time on his
show.

Geoff's livin' large show is a brokered show, where he pays outright for the hours he is on WIND, and is
responsible for all the advertising. It is a different show than the overnight show was.

The show didn't last long, but, it was a great achievement on his part to be able to host his own overnight
show in market #3 on a major Chicago signal. I hope he ends up back on the air sometime soon.
 
Pinkus' show started right about New Year, 2009 - no more than 2 weeks before that.
With four full hours a night five nights, he did o.k. But again, once he didn't have a colorful-type sidekick/news reader whom he would have play off a little (Bonnie) - to me the crew was pretty much all college sophomores.
Always surprised how abruptly shows disappear. Guess its like the personnel rule in offices: fire 'em at 4:30 Friday afternoon. No point lettin' everybody see it comin'. And evidently the programmers look at the shows earned income pretty often. Get tired of red ink.
 
He had some prior show of the brokered type. It was a promotion directly for his business. If memory serves that was rent a condominium with an option to buy. The overnight show did not promote such activity on his part, Yet that condo thing of his led to the Sunday evening and then the overnight shows.
An overnight live show of Pinkus' type would be welcome.
 
DanielG said:
He had some prior show of the brokered type. It was a promotion directly for his business. If memory serves that was rent a condominium with an option to buy. The overnight show did not promote such activity on his part, Yet that condo thing of his led to the Sunday evening and then the overnight shows.
An overnight live show of Pinkus' type would be welcome.
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Was it on WIND? I didn't know he had a show before Livin' Large, I actually started listening to him on
the overnight show. I really found it by accident. I was listening to WGN and it was putting me to sleep, so I stumbled
onto his show, and liked what I heard.

I really wish that WIND would put something besides Medved in the 2-4 slot, even put Savage on, something that
would keep people awake at night while they're driving or working ;)
 
The real estate-related show he did with a female co-host was sponsored by ownacondo.com

I'll definitely miss Geoff overnight. I only wish I was able to stay up more frequently to catch the show. In fact, news of his show's discontinuation is what led me to this site when I did a search on him.
 
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