Chicago Radio: Abe Kanan Gets Week's Try-Out On WGN.FM

Mark Kanan

Talk radio is a tough business, and nobody knows that better than Abe Kanan, according to Mark Kankol at dnainfo.com.

Kanhol writes Kanan's experienced the joy of being a 19-year-old morning show intern — staying late to record prank phone calls to impress shock jock boss, Mancow Muller — to earn his first paying gig in the radio business.

Kanan also knows the heartbreak of getting fired just three hours after finishing a week living homeless on the street to support his radio station's food drive.

But on Monday, Kanan's hitting another career high note when his namesake show gets a one-week run from 7 to 10 p.m. on the Tribune Company's new Internet radio venture called "The G."

He's hoping to turn "The Abe Kanan Show" — which started as a podcast recorded in his bedroom that he parlayed into a twice-a-week show on Howard Stern's Sirius/ XM radio channel — into a steady gig on WGN.FM.

"They gave us a week," Kanan said. "No promises for more, but we'll see what happens."

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