{"id":7977,"date":"2013-08-15T05:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2013-08-15T05:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:22:28","slug":"wgn-am-in-chicago-clears-mid-day-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7977","title":{"rendered":"WGN-AM in Chicago Clears mid day schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Randy Michaels briefly took control of WGN-AM in Chicago, he convinced Mike McConnell to move from Clear Channel&#8217;s WLW-AM.  McConnell just got demoted to podcast only.<\/p>\n<p>WGN is an oddball station &#8211; very high AM ratings in a major market with a newspaper owner (grandfathered before the rule preventing newspapers from owning radio stations)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty obvious that if Cumulus dumps Rush Limbaugh that he would land at WGN, with either Tribune Corp picking the show up or Clear Channel buying the station &#8211; they have $130 million in cash from their XM stock sale that needs to buy something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Randy Michaels briefly took control of WGN-AM in Chicago, he convinced Mike McConnell to move from Clear Channel&#8217;s WLW-AM. McConnell just got demoted to podcast only. WGN is an oddball station &#8211; very high AM ratings in a major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=7977\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7978,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions\/7978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}