Marv-L A wrote:
I believe that the late Robert W. Morgan left KHJ/LA in 1970 or 1971 to become a talk show host at WIND, but he only lasted for about a year or so before returning to LA, and Van dyke took over mornings at KHJ in either 1971 or 1972.
Does anyone know if he and Larry Lujack ever worked simultaneously at any Chicago radio station?
Marv,
Lujack never worked at WIND, and WIND was the only station in Chicago that Morgan worked at. You are likely writing from a Los Angeles perspective on this, which is worlds different from the Chicago one. It was only from being a radio nut that I knew who Robert W was when he came to WIND, but WIND carried on as if he was Bob Hope or Johnny Carson or somebody that people in the Chicago area had heard of. They never seemed to grasp that 99.9% of the people had no idea who he was and all the billboards and outside advertising would have been better spent to promote their music format.
I thought about that when Brandmeier was simulcast in L A before becoming an "L.A. only" morning man for the couple of years. He pulled better numbers in L A than Robert W did in Chicago (yes - way different times, but just making the point) but was just another morning guy in L A that came and went.
When the Morgan thing failed on WIND, WIND eventually got stronger with a true local morning man, while Morgan simply went back to L A and bounced around a bit. Probably few remember his late 80's comeback on Emmis' Power 106 when he just showed on there one Monday morning with little to no pre-publicity.
I'm trying to remember who replaced Morgan on WIND. Might have been Bob DelGiorno, but I'm not sure.
