Near the top, for sure. You can't argue with what he accomplished and the impact he had on media for years to come.

That being said, it does bear mentioning that ABC was inches away from pulling the plug on WLS-AM's talk format all the way back in 1994, the Angry White Male ostensibly not being common enough in a liberal area that's been working out its neuroses about minorities since before radio was invented. It wasn't until the O.J. Simpson trial and Roe Conn's coverage of it that 890 really capitalized on not only AWMs but a much wider base of listeners. Like I've said before, the station lineup that I remember best was never wall-to-wall conservative: they had screaming leftist loons like Jay Marvin and Mike Malloy, Roma was always kind of a moonbat, and I wouldn't exactly call Roe and Garry hardliners.

That being said, it does bear mentioning that ABC was inches away from pulling the plug on WLS-AM's talk format all the way back in 1994, the Angry White Male ostensibly not being common enough in a liberal area that's been working out its neuroses about minorities since before radio was invented. It wasn't until the O.J. Simpson trial and Roe Conn's coverage of it that 890 really capitalized on not only AWMs but a much wider base of listeners. Like I've said before, the station lineup that I remember best was never wall-to-wall conservative: they had screaming leftist loons like Jay Marvin and Mike Malloy, Roma was always kind of a moonbat, and I wouldn't exactly call Roe and Garry hardliners.

Near the top, for sure. You can't argue with what he accomplished and the impact he had on media for years to come.

That being said, it does bear mentioning that ABC was inches away from pulling the plug on WLS-AM's talk format all the way back in 1994, the Angry White Male ostensibly not being common enough in a liberal area that's been working out its neuroses about minorities since before radio was invented. It wasn't until the O.J. Simpson trial and Roe Conn's coverage of it that 890 really capitalized on not only AWMs but a much wider base of listeners. Like I've said before, the station lineup that I remember best was never wall-to-wall conservative: they had screaming leftist loons like Jay Marvin and Mike Malloy, Roma was always kind of a moonbat, and I wouldn't exactly call Roe and Garry hardliners.