Finfer just called Feder a hack.

Sounded real pissed while saying it, too.

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Now Finer is taking shots at Feeder for breaking the story, calling him a hack and saying he shouldn't have said anything until people at the station knew.

The media doesn't have any trouble reporting similar news about athletes...not so cool when the tables are turned, I guess.

This guy gets it

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Now Finfer is a stooge. Now he is going to defend management? What a fucking turd.

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From Sun Times


David Just
@davidjustCST | email

Radio host Ben Finfer of WGWG-FM’s “Quigs and Finfer” show learned mid-show Thursday that Tribune Media was pulling the plug on the sports radio station.

The news came down not from management but from media reporter Robert Feder, who tweeted the story during Finfer’s show.

“We’re doing a live show here,” Finfer said on the air. “And to be told this way, it’s really a letdown. We’re getting screwed on this one. … We just found out on Twitter a half hour ago that the station is being taken off the air. We were not told about this ahead of time.

“We didn’t know anything about it. We were coming back from a break and saw on Twitter from Robert Feder that the station is being taken off the air. Can you believe that? A lot of really talented people were hired to work at this station and found out through Twitter that they were fired. Nothing from the bosses.

“I don’t really know what to do for the last hour of this show. I guess take calls.”

Feder’s report said that David Kaplan and David Haugh, who host from 9 a.m. to noon, are expected to continue on Comcast Sports Net after the radio operation ceases. But few of the station’s other sports/talk hosts are expected to remain employed. The weekday lineup includes Finfer, Alex Quigley, Jarrett Payton, Harry Teinowitz, Spike Manton, Mark Carman and Connor McKnight.

“You would assume you tell the employees before the media,” Finfer said on the air. “You assume they have the common courtesy to let some hosts on the air know that something might be coming so you don’t find out when you’re coming back from a commercial break. I’ve never heard of such a thing. I’ve heard of some pretty crappy things in this business. You talk to radio people you’ll hear awful stories about the way they’ve been treated. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anything like this.”

“They may fire us today now,” Quigley added.

More from Feder’s report:

All of the moves are being made, according to insiders, because the company has been unable to generate sufficient advertising revenue to sustain the programming and talent costs. Total Chicago radio revenue is down 11 percent from last year, according to Miller Kaplan Arase market figures for October 2014.

The GameTribune Media launched The Game 87.7 last February on a low-power television frequency that doubles as an FM radio signal. Leased from Venture Technologies Group, which owns the license, the station previously drew respectable ratings for smooth jazz and hard rock music formats. Despite programming and marketing support from news/talk WGN and its status as the only sports/talk station on FM, the upstart competitor to CBS Radio’s WSCR AM 670 and ESPN’s WMVP AM 1000 never caught on.

“Rick Renteria lasted longer than us,” Finfer said on the air. “Who would have thought Marc Trestman would make it past midseason and not us?”

The hosts attempted to reach Feder — a reporter — to get more information about the future of their station during the show.

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I'm guessing Feder declined to come on the air with them.

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lol man this caller just bemoaned all of pre-exisiting sports talk stations for "all of the experts" and how this one was refreshing because it didn't have any.

i'll take symbolism for $500, alex.

oh wait ADAM HOG. disregard this post i suck cocks.

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What does a reporter gain by being first. I don't know. A lot. This is a nothing and Feder doesn't work for a big outlet, but in general, it's good to be first.

Not to mention, Feder didn't know the employees weren't told. How is he suppose to know that? Maybe he thought they were told to dummy up. But if he did know, it's still not his job to hold the story. Ben isn't that bright. Especially for somebody in the media who should kind of know how the media works.

Beardown, what's to become of the Hogie?

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Weren't these douchebags celebrating the firing of Renteria and calling for the head of Trestman daily? And now everyone's heart is supposed to bleed because they might have to work for a living?

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Don't take it personally.

Yeah pretty much.

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Rozner is crying for Jordan Lynch's mistreatment. Again, the culture of victimization at work!

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Great joke Harry...not.

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Man,this really sucks. There is a bunch of good guys on there. It's a bad day for anyone who wants better sports talk radio (more competition) .

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Both Finfer and Payton mentioned that this is a possible fake

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

well if you read in between the lines he said that he has to give up his apartment [in the city] to go to back to buffalo grove or something, so knowing they've got deadspin plugging their show so ppl can listen to do the meltdown and etc etc.... so he wants the rest of these 6 weeks to transition out of his apartment,, which you can maybe guess were 6 month leases and etc..... so he wants to stick around and ride out these last 6 weeks, but at the same time he's making his name for himself with REAL RADIO so its gonna be a tightrope balance of going HAM on the establishment and toeing the line just enough to stick around.

if it was rsgreg who emailed deadspin to get this up, he might have done them a favor to make them potential appointment radio for the next 6 weeks as WILL THEY RETURN TOMORROW?!?!!? radio for KEEPING IT REAL and etc? so it'll be interesting to see what happens. i'm guessing by next wake it's the same ol same ol show with 25% more edge and we'll see if that's a glowing resume entry after DEADSPIN.COM TOP STORY 11/20/14 CIRCA 1:50PM CST.

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pretty sure right b4 the 2pm commercials/update after their spirited ~20min segment where finfer finished up going HAM

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I had the story first. I just want that on the record.

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Well that's just all kinds of stupid.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I'm on Team Douchebag on this one:

THE memo:

"We will discontinue programming of The Game and sports radio on 87.7 on December 31, 2014. WGN Radio is working to continue to produce the Kap & Haugh Show for CSN Chicago. We're looking to expand our sports footprint on WGN Radio as well as online and via social media. Our Free Form media initiative, wgn.fm, will take a different form to be an incubator for new talent, alternative conversation, and classic Chicago audio called WGN Plus in 2015. That content will all be distributed on demand at wgnradio.com. The final Garry Meier Show streamed live on wgn.fm yesterday."

— Robert Channick




There are just too many red flags:

* Even if DeCastro has morphed into a completely clueless dumbass over the years, I just don't believe the news of pulling the plug on the station would be announced in such a shitty, classless, and gutless way,

* The highlighted text above,

* The convenient date: December 31st. Why wait until then? I don't think that they have any real obligations to sponsors that would prevent them from ending it now,

* The highlighted text above,

* Letting your on-air talent continue to broadcast until the alleged end date. Gives them way too much rope to torpedo their bosses, especially when the talent probably doesn't have that much to lose,

* The highlighted text above.


My feeling is that they are announcing it in this way for some pub, and they will follow up by some sort of announcement about a new frequency and maybe a somewhat shuffled lineup.




I put the odds of me being wrong at about 1-5.

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Not a mult.

Maybe these guys can EBAY some of that crap when no one is looking.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I think its a legit shit-canning.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

harry trashing malort? JOHN HODGMAN WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!

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Douchedown (or Bearbag) vibe.

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Jarret pulling a "Terry Boers" today.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

So, between losing interest in call after call of people saying they never stopped listening to The Game and the biological imperative of having to go push some mud (speaking of a legit shit-canning) I didn't hear if there was any interesting transition talk .... anything of value occur?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Yes, and then Payton mentioned it at the very beginning of J, H & S.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Fuck that. That dude doesn't know dick.

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If this were a stunt, then why would they dump Brandmeier immediately?


"Also out, effective immediately, are former WGN personalities Jonathon Brandmeier and Garry Meier, sources said. Brandmeier’s morning show aired on The Game 87.7 and the online streaming site wgn.fm. Meier’s afternoon show aired only on wgn.fm."

Get rid of the high priced guys and re-brand as another station? I think this is legit.

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