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WGN News at Nine (formerly The Nine O'Clock News; simulcast of 9 p.m. newscast; September 1980–January 30, 2014) WGN Midday News (formerly Chicago's Midday News and WGN News at Noon; simulcast of noon-1 p.m. CT portion, 1983–2014) [3] Heritage of Faith (1983–92) Chicago's Very Own (1988–92) $100,000 Fortune Hunt (1989–94) People to ...
The changes are an attempt to shift WGN closer to the programming format it had prior to Kevin Metheney and Randy Michaels' tenure with WGN and Tribune, while placing more emphasis on new media; this included the move of Mike McConnell's program to the station's secondary Internet radio station WGN Plus (formerly WGN-2) until the remainder of ...
The Steve Cochran Show is the title of two talk shows on 720 WGN AM in Chicago, Illinois hosted by Steve Cochran. The original, airing in the afternoon drive, ran from February 2000 until its cancellation in June 2010. The current is Cochran's second stint at WGN, this time as morning-drive host, which began in September 2013. It airs from 5-10 ...
Chicago Live! is an hour-long stage and radio variety show hosted by Chicago newspaperman and radio personality Rick Kogan. [1] The multi-platform show is produced by the Chicago Tribune in partnership with The Second City and broadcasts on WGN Radio 720-AM Saturday nights at 11 p.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience.
WGN America logo, used from January 2014 until it was renamed as NewsNation in March 2021. On September 1, 2020, WGN America launched a three-hour-long prime time newscast, NewsNation, which began development in October 2019, when Nexstar management commissioned research from television subscribers that determined a share of survey participants were dissatisfied with opinion-based programming ...
WGN America restored a simulcast of the WGN Morning News to its schedule on February 3, 2014, airing only the first two hours of the broadcast, which replaced paid programming that occupied the 5:00–7:00 a.m. ET timeslot on the superstation feed (the addition concurred with the removal of the simulcast of WGN's 9:00 p.m. newscast, which was ...
Kevin Menear (born March 12, 1956), known professionally as Kevin Matthews, is a Midwest United States radio personality, best known for his 12-year association with WLUP "The Loop" and its one-time sister-station, WMVP "AM 1000." [1] Matthews became popular for his off-kilter take on various topics. He's known for doing voices, including that ...
On December 2, 2011, WGN announced that longtime Chicago radio personality Jonathon Brandmeier would replace Jarrett in the morning time-slot in a shift to a more personality-based program. [ 11 ] Jarrett joined Bloomberg Radio in 2013 and co-hosts Bloomberg Best .