Introducing Milt Rosenberg… When I saw his name in a headline list, my first guess was he was there for an obituary.<\/p>\n
If you have been here forever, there is a chance you remember his name. He had been on WGN-AM forever doing a late evening show. Milt is a very smart, well educated thoughtful man – college professor type. Not a dogmatic left\/right sock puppet.<\/p>\n
A lot of his career was in obscurity. WGN used to carry Cubs games, which meant Milt often had to sit around waiting for the game to end. He got his 15 minutes of Drudge Report fame in 2008 because of a young Chicago politician running for President – some guy named Barack Osama or something. Milt was having on a guest to talk about the relationship between Barack and Bill Ayers. The Obama campaign exploded at the management of WGN to stop the interview<\/p>\n
http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/warner-todd-huston\/2008\/08\/28\/obama-campaign-tries-shut-down-chicago-radio-show<\/a><\/p>\n WGN finally gave him the retirement watch in 2012. The news is that Milt will be replacing Glenn Beck on his Chicago affiliate. If you are from Chicago, you might be scratching your head – Glenn Beck has an affiliate in Chicago? WLS? WGN? WIND? WBBM?<\/p>\n In syndication, it is important to fool advertisers telling them “we are carried in all of the top 25 markets”, ignoring that the show isn’t live, isn’t carried for the entire show, and is on a station that carries mostly Christian preaching in Korean. Beck has been carried on such a station WCGO-AM, located in Evanston, the northern suburb along the lakefront.<\/p>\n WCGO-AM<\/a> is owned by a family trust, operates at 10kw during the day, 2500w at night (class B). It is at 1590 kHz, about the worst AM frequency to get a signal out. It looks like Beyond the Beltway also found its home there. The station does stream, although I just found that today. Milt is on from Noon to 2 PM Central currently and will move to 4-6 PM shortly. It’s worth tuning in. He also has podcasts.<\/p>\n The man who owned the station is probably more interesting than this news. Frank Kovas died in 2005, but had a very interesting life. His death story is Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introducing Milt Rosenberg… When I saw his name in a headline list, my first guess was he was there for an obituary. If you have been here forever, there is a chance you remember his name. He had been on … Continue reading