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As previously mentioned here, Mason Schreader and Zach "Remy" Hoesly will take over the morning show starting next week. They come to Chicago radio after a few years of success in St. Louis (where they will continue to host an afternoon show.)
All the pictures of them show them wearing Cardinals jerseys. Whatever. Most people in Chicago who like country music probably like the Cardinals anyway.
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Afternoons will be hosted by Amber Cole, who goes by the on-air name of Alabama -- her birth state.
What? Just "Alabama"? That's the worst stripper name I've ever heard in my life! I remember reading some interview with Harvey Wells in the
Illinois Entertainer or one of those where he talked about getting started in Carbondale or someplace downstate and just going by "Harvey" on the air. He came up to Chicago with his just-plain-Harvey demos and was promptly told "if you're going to be on the radio in Chicago, you're going to have to have a last name." Now you don't just skate by with no last name, you can purport to be a whole shitty state. What an age we live in. And the supreme irony is that her birth name appears to be "Amber Cole," which could also be a stripper name in and of itself but is probably her real name and perfectly suited to radio. I mean, somewhere there's a Rebecca Herskovitz trying to break into this business and she'd love nothing more than to use "Amber Cole"!
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The lone Chicago native that will be on the air for Big 95.5 will be Erik Zachary, who takes over as nighttime host. Zachary, 23, just graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2014 with a degree in Broadcast Communications. For the last two years, the young student had been working part-time on weekends for WKSC-FM/103.5 Kiss FM using the name of ErikZ. He also was heard on Columbia College's student-run station WCRX-FM. Even with his new full-time job at Big 95.5, he will continue to voicetrack shifts for 103.5 Kiss FM on weekends.
Despite his lack of experience working in radio, and almost no experience in Country music, iHeartMedia chose to go with Zachary because they liked his youthful energy.
Personally, I just hope this earns Adam Hoge's gay half-brother some begrudging acceptance from his family.
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