MANCOW GONE FROM Q-101 WKQX-FM in Chicago ; Last live show was TODAY

[Jul]

Q101 Announces Plans For New Morning Show
Tuesday July 11, 12:21 pm ET
Q101's Final Broadcast of Mancow's Morning Madhouse scheduled for July 14

CHICAGO, July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marv Nyren, vice president and general manager of Emmis Radio Chicago, today announced that Q101 (WKQX-FM), Chicago's alternative rock station, is making significant changes to the station's weekday morning programming. Since changing the station's music to encompass "Everything Alternative" and putting it all "On Shuffle," the station has been attracting a growing audience that is demographically broader than the station had been previously. Now Q101 and Program Director Mike Stern are developing an unconventional morning show that is designed to appeal to this wider demographic. The target launch date for the new morning show is September 18. Additional details about the show will be released at a later date.

Mancow's Morning Madhouse, which has aired on Q101 since 1998, will continue to be heard on the station until Friday, July 14. Then, beginning Monday, July 17, Q101 will kick off the "Summer of Shuffle." [......EDIT]

For more information, visit http://www.Q101.com

Also

Following today's surprising and sudden departure of Mancow from mornings at Q101 Chicago, station VP/GM Marv Nyren took time to give Radio Ink an exclusive interview. About Mancow, we asked...

for more info: http://www.radioink.com/HeadlineEntry.asp?hid=134271&pt=todaysnews


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[marko83]

He's not that good. Hopefully no one will pick him up.

 

[jcolletta275]

If he left before Friday, someone already has. Either that or he's just abandoned his entire network.

 

[Jul]

If he left before Friday, someone already has. Either that or he's just abandoned his entire network.

His last show live was Tuesday.

 

[uncamark]

If he left before Friday, someone already has. Either that or he's just abandoned his entire network.

He said that he would continue to do shows for syndication--he just doesn't have a home in Chicago right now.

 

[jcolletta275]

One of the MI Buzzboard users hit one out of the ballpark on this:

It's no secret Emmis wasn't an active supporter of Mancow's syndication efforts.

When Stern left terrestrial radio, Emmis chose to run Rover's show in St. Louis instead of Mancow!

When Emmis owned hard rock stations in Indy and Denver, they ran Stern in those markets instead of Mancow.

The straw that broke the camel's back was probably when Emmis hired Johnny B to do mornings at 97-9 The Loop, instead of moving Mancow there. Emmis seemed to make it pretty clear that Johnny B is their guy as far as Chicago is concerned.

Q101's music format and Mancow's appeal were on a collision course. Definite mismatch.

They also wondered why Emmis never moved the show over to WLUP, and speculates that Mancow will resurface on WCKG, bumping Rover off the air in the market.

 

[uncamark]

One of the MI Buzzboard users hit one out of the ballpark on this:

It's no secret Emmis wasn't an active supporter of Mancow's syndication efforts.

When Stern left terrestrial radio, Emmis chose to run Rover's show in St. Louis instead of Mancow!

When Emmis owned hard rock stations in Indy and Denver, they ran Stern in those markets instead of Mancow.

The straw that broke the camel's back was probably when Emmis hired Johnny B to do mornings at 97-9 The Loop, instead of moving Mancow there. Emmis seemed to make it pretty clear that Johnny B is their guy as far as Chicago is concerned.

Q101's music format and Mancow's appeal were on a collision course. Definite mismatch.

They also wondered why Emmis never moved the show over to WLUP, and speculates that Mancow will resurface on WCKG, bumping Rover off the air in the market.

Feder reports today that Mancow's doing his syndicated show from the ABC studios at State and Lake for the time being and that 'LS' PD used to work at TRN, Mancow's syndicator. Anyone want to throw out WZZN as a potential flip now?

 

[Starscream]

They also wondered why Emmis never moved the show over to WLUP, and speculates that Mancow will resurface on WCKG, bumping Rover off the air in the market.

If Rover gets bumped, I think O&A would get the slot, not Mancow. (Lot cheaper to syndicate talent you already have over a new talent you'd have to sign.) But then, Mancow has recognition in Chicago.

However, I don't think Rover's getting bumped, but O&A have been making notions they're going to Chicago. So I'm questioning where.

 

[CWRUFan]

If Rover gets bumped, I think O&A would get the slot, not Mancow. (Lot cheaper to syndicate talent you already have over a new talent you'd have to sign.) But then, Mancow has recognition in Chicago.

However, I don't think Rover's getting bumped, but O&A have been making notions they're going to Chicago. So I'm questioning where.

O&A qualify their statements about Chicago with allusions to Rover being axed. His low numbers in Chicago may have him sent back to Cleveland, where his numbers are still solid. This ratings book and the next may decide the future of Rover's fake radio.