Per Feder.
http://www.robertfeder.com/2018/04/23/robservations-new-boss-coming-wttw-wfmt-week/#more-17786

Oh great the Matt Dubiel Vanity Project is at it again, this definitely wont be anything but an unmitigated shitshow. Let's all discuss this a lot.

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Dan Patrick is on 1530 AM but they're still playing music on 102.3 FM.

Goff found a new job already.

Good for him.

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How do they get away with a translator in Elmhurst at 102.3 with a full-powered signal at 102.3 in Waukegan? XLC makes it to at least Schaumburg. Translators be gone.

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http://WCKG.com



eeeewwwww

I wonder if Goff signed up to do an update during one of the shows?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I signed up Dr. Ken.

Juice can be the co-host of the Sports and Torts revival with Spada

They really dug deep into the promotional budget for that.

LOTS of dead air coming back from breaks. Nearly 90 seconds worth around 9:46. McKnight and Hub are on WSCR and Kap is probably one-upping people on AM1000 so, sadly, this is my best option.

Name developed by the same content algorithm that generated youtube videos of the Joker knocking up Elsa and the Incredible Hulk.

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This is pretty cool. Dan Patrick is far superior to anything else in Chicago on in the mornings.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Isn't his show already simulcast on TV?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Yeah, but a lot of people can't watch it there.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

This format will last three months before Dubiel gets bored and flips it to, I dunno, what's another defunct Chicago radio station whose intellectual property he can squat on? He already used WCKG, WBMX, and Q101. 1530 WMAQ? Give us 22 minutes, we'll give you Alex Jones calling frogs gay?

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Rock-sports hybrid!

We found a job for Mac!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

This station sounds like a good place for Finfer to work, maybe he could produce a show for Harry T and Spike Manton, a revival of the "Crease Monkeys" or something?

With NHL playoffs going on now, seems like a perfect time!

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Blackhawk goal, scored by number 20, Al Secord.

Is it cool if I do about 3 updates and then stop for a year?

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You know me like that.

Did something happen with Alex Jones that Dubiel gave up his commitment to him? I remember reading that he applied to move his FM stick to Trump Tower (where else?) so he could bring conspiracy theories about chemtrails and (((globalists))) to Chicago proper.

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A whole station dedicated to Zoltar's Industrial Zone would be my preference. Failing that, bring back 92.7 The Bear.

I have been trying to track down WCBR airchecks or even playlists for years now with very little luck. All I've found was a reunion show that some of the hosts did on Northwestern radio a few years ago and now the link is dead. All I remember was they talked about liking the song "Reservation Road" by Bill Miller. It is pretty good in that thoughtful '90s adult-album-alternative way.

If I ever won the lottery, I'd buy 106.7 and use that as a personal toy and beam Tindersticks and Afghan Whigs songs to the northwest burbs.

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WCBR was lot of Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. Lot of local/regional flannel bands too.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

I wouldn't have been cool enough for CBR at age 8-9 anyway, but my parents discouraged me from listening to the station because Darrel Peters and my grandpa didn't get along. I'd eventually listen to 92.7 a lot when it became the first Kiss FM, but Peters had sold the station by then and my grandpa had died so I guess it didn't matter anymore.

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Was Energy before or after Kiss?

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

After. When Clear Channel killed Jammin' Oldies at 103.5 and anywhere else it was, they flipped it to Kiss FM, then sued 92.7's owners for copyright infringement, despite them being there first. (Incidentally, the Kiss FM in Milwaukee has always been an Entercom station, and wouldn't you know it, Clear Channel never picked a fight there. They just called their own CHR something else.) That's when they flipped to Energy, which must have done pretty well because I've found people talking about how cool it was years after it went off the air.

After Energy I think it became Nine FM, then a simulcast of WCPT, and now it's Polish.

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"Men Welcome"

Looks like someone's been reading the board!

When they talk about a picture being worth a thousand words...

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I used to write parodies of Feder columns on the crow_on and radio-info message boards. I wish I could find them. On the demise of Energy, I wrote one where WGN, struggling to connect with younger listeners, was reconcepting Milt Rosenberg's show to Energy 720. It got some traction from people who were only familiar with one or the other side of the joke.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

I don't think the single pack of acoustic tiling is doing all that much.

Also, right off the bat letting people know that he's, putting it politely, taking cues from Barstool Sports.