John Williams good but dont need Repeat Williams. Dent has been filling in on various shifts at WGN since January. Beginning January 3, WGN Radios weekday programming schedule is: 4am 6am: WGN-TV simulcast6am 10am: Bob Sirott10am 2pm: John Williams, including the Wintrust Business Lunch at noon2pm 6pm: Chicagos Afternoon News with Lisa Dent and Steve Bertrand6pm 7pm: WGN Radios Money Matters (airing early 2022)7pm 10pm: John Landecker. Its painful to listen to them. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) Some familiar voices echoed outside the studios of WGN Radio on Friday, as the station honored 10 of its air personalities enshrined . The topics switch to national politics typically after 9pm and you wont miss WGN at all. Hans show sprang ursprungligen frn 08:30 (CT) till 12:30 pm Den 12 december 2011 ndrades den till 9:00 till 12:00. Joan is great. He is a great sidekick and news anchor, but his afternoon news show just is so dull. "Davlantes will continue to be heard frequently across the stations dayparts," according to WGN's announcement. When listening and while interviewing people, it sounds as if she is on her phone reading texts from her kids. [24][25] For most of its broadcasts on the new band, WGNB was located at 98.7MHz. WGN Radio Walk of Fame takes an eerie detour to the suburbs. Metheny and Laski were both fired weeks after Michaels was forced to resign by a Tribune Board of Directors facing spiraling losses at the hands of Michaels' management style. [70], This article is about the radio station. 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 his contract was bought out around October 10, 2013,[58] the move of Jonathon Brandmeier's morning show to a new station branded "The G" (which has since launched as an additional Internet-only station but is planned to eventually move to an FM frequency to be acquired by Tribune) in favor of Cochran, and increased synergy with WGN-TV (including the replacement of WGN radio's "Voice of Chicago" slogan with WGN-TV's longtime slogan, "Chicago's Very Own"). I absolutely hate all your changes.