In 1995, Dan Mason knew he'd won the crown jewel of Chicago radio when he acquired fabled adult rocker WXRT-FM (93.1) in a $60 million deal with the fledgling sports talker known as (WSCR) the Score.
"We are paying a premium to buy waterfront property, and we see no reason to alter how these stations are operating," Mason said at the time. "All of the key personnel should stay intact."
(Mason later signed WSCR's Mike North to an unheard of contract)
Well, that was then -- and this is now.
On Thursday the very same Dan Mason presided over a wave of cutbacks and consolidations that many fear will destroy the unique culture of WXRT, and consign the station to mediocrity.
In eliminating the WXRT positions of vice president, general manager and sales manager, CBS Radio merged its operations under the Score.
Paul Agase, vice president and general manager of WSCR-AM (670), also will oversee WXRT, while sales will be handled by Peter Bowen in a new CBS group cluster.
Staffers at the famously eclectic Chicago adult-rock outlet were told Thursday that they soon will be leaving their squat, one-story Northwest Side clubhouse at Belmont and Cicero Avenues for more modern downtown accommodations at NBC Tower.
WXRT's sales department is set to move in a few weeks, with the on-air staff supposed to follow in three to four months after changes are made to digitally upgrade the facilities the station will share with all-sports WSCR-AM 670, sources said.

Yeah, Terry was mad about people thinking it mattered.

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So will Terri Hemmert be handing out Mike North coffee mugs at the Pride Parade?

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SideshowBob311: "Sadly enough, I think we're the "intelligent" portion of the sports radio fanbase".
"I make fun of whoever sucks, including me"- Harry 11/30/07

You know North will be telling how he loves it , he loves Bremer, he loves all the XRt people and on and on and on then one day.

"I got to share an office with a so called female that looks like Steve Dahl! Paul Agase is an idiot and CBS has no clue what they are doing...except when they signed me to a $1.5 million dollar deal...but besdies that what idiots they are!"

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Its all CBS anyway. Does he get to add on Fresh106,780 and B96 too?