Since August, Pete McMurray has been the morning host on
WIQI-FM 101.1, currently known as i101. Prior to that, McMurray was the morning show
host on WLUP-FM for the last 5.5 years, until he was removed at the end of July
to make room for Maxwell, a crony hire of Merlin Media CEO Randy Michaels and
Operations Manager Jim Richards.
CR&M adds This is the second major on-air firing from
Merlin Media's Chicago stations in less than a week. Late tast week, afternoon
host Shark was released from WKQX-LP/Q87.7.
In typical Randy Michaels/Merlin Media fashion, Operations
Manager Jim Richards Wednesday denied that Shark was released, claiming only
that his hours had been cut. Of course, that was leaving out the fact that the
hours were cut to zero, effective immediately, and that Shark was wished a fond
farewell at that point last week.
Merlin Media also denied that Pete McMurray
was taking over mornings at i101 (McMurray did just that three weeks later) and
that their stations were for sale (Merlin Media sold WRXP-FM to CBS Radio for
$75 million less than two weeks later).
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