Media: November 2014
Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft When Bruce Wolf took over the morning show at WLS-AM, he knew he had big shoes to fill. Bruce says now that he couldn’t have done it without the support of his predecessors,...
View ArticleMedia: September 2016
Photo courtesy of Kevin Mathhews / wzzm13.com It was not too long ago when Kevin Matthews was the biggest star on the radio dial in Chicago. His fans were known as Kev Heads, his catch phrases were...
View ArticleMedia: April 2018
I was 23 years old the day I walked into the Loop offices for the first time. After getting rejections from the other rock stations in Chicago (and there were quite a few at the time), I had thrown a...
View ArticleMedia: October 2019
Rob Hart Next year will be Rob Hart’s 20th year on the radio in Chicago, and he has worked at several stops along the way, including WGN, News 101, and the Loop. But now he’s manning the anchor desk at...
View ArticleMedia: September 2022 • Garry Meier • Hall of Famer
Garry Meier Garry Meier’s podcast is now in its seventh season, and it’s fair to say it has found an audience. According to the podcast, monitoring/rating service, Listen Notes, the Garry Meier show is...
View ArticleMedia : December 2022 • Baby Onions – It’s Chuck Swirsky
Chuck Swirsky Chuck Swirsky is in the midst of his 25th season as an NBA play-by-play man, and his 15th year doing radio play-by-play for the Bulls. Next month he’ll do his 2000th game. “If...
View ArticleMedia: July 2023 • Catching up with Mr. Wert
Larry Wert After more than four decades in the media business as a sales manager/general manager/vice president for places like WLS-TV, The Loop AM & FM radio stations, NBC-5 Chicago, and the...
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