Bill leff biography wgn radio
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WGN (AM)
This article is about the radio station. For the local Chicago television station, see WGN-TV. For the cable channel formerly known as WGN America, see NewsNation.
Radio station in Illinois, United States
WGN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a talk radioformat. WGN's studios are in the Chicago Loop, while the transmitter is in Elk Grove Village. WGN also features broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawkshockey and Northwestern Universityfootball and basketball.
Since 2022, WGN is the only radio station owned by Nexstar Media Group, which primarily owns television stations (and is the largest owner of television stations in the U.S.). It was founded in 1922 as WDAP. In 1924 it was acquired by the Chicago Tribune, whose "World's Greatest Newspaper" slogan served as the basis for the WGN call sign, and later the call sign of a television superstation.
WGN is a clear channel, Class A station, broadcasting with the maximum power of 50,000 watts, and using a non-directional antenna. During daytime hours, near-perfect ground conductivity gives WGN at least secondary coverage to almost two-thirds of Illinois (as far south as Springfield) as well as large slices of Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Iowa. During nighttime skywave hou
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Radio’s a tough business, and I understand why station bosses have to fire on-air personalities from time to time as they strive for higher ratings and greater ad revenue.
What I don’t understand, though, is why they so seldom give ousted personalities the chance to say goodbye and thanks to their listeners.
After all, success in radio is based on building and maintaining connections between hosts and the audience. At their best, these connections come to feel personal, almost like a friendship.
So it’s a betrayal of the listeners when management severs those connections without notice. If they’re afraid of profane rants or boss bashing from terminated hosts — not unheard of! — they could record and edit farewell messages before airing them. Listeners would feel respected.
The reason I bring this up is that on Wednesday news talk station WGN-AM 720 fired its midmorning team of Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder, and I want to give them a chance to address their audience one last time.
There’s a bit of quid pro quo at work here, I admit. For the six years they were together at the station, Leff and Snyder invited me into their studio each week for a half-hour segment to talk with them and their audience about the news, my columns, my famil