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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Clear Channel Imports Morning Show
Robert Feder has all the details on his facebook page.
Here's the money quote: Despite promises that Clear Channel Chicago would launch a local morning show on its newly branded 93.9 MY FM, that doesn't appear to be the case. Paul "Cubby" Bryant, who hosts mornings on Clear Channel's WKTU-FM in New York and also is heard on WMIA-FM in Miami, is expected to add WLIT 93.9 FM to his syndication lineup, sources said Sunday.
Of course it won't be the first syndicated morning show on the former Lite-FM. They've made that mistake multiple times.
I thought the most interesting part of Feder's post was this final paragraph...
For weeks now, Chicago radio veterans Eddie Volkman and Joe "Jobo" Colborn were rumored to be headed for mornings on 93.9 MY FM. On July 10, Volkman posted a photo on his Facebook page of the duo taken at Clear Channel studios. "Today's meeting could NOT have gone better!" he wrote. "Watch out, Chicago! Damn, I'm stoked."
Sounds like E&J got a bit blindsided. I hate this business sometimes. I really do.