Chicago Radio: Turi Ryder To Fill-In On WGN

Turi Ryder

WGN 720 AM has announced that Turi Ryder will be the fill-in host next week for its vacant 11:00pm-2:00am weeknight shift, according to CRM.   Various fill-in hosts have been on the air during that time for the last few weeks.

After doing a few fill-in shifts in 2012, Chicago native Ryder started working at WGN-AM full-time in January 2013. She was given the daunting task of replacing Milt Rosenberg and his cerebral "Extension 720" program, working a 10:00pm-1:00am shift. Ryder's talk show was much lighter in tone than Rosenberg's style of show.

While ratings remained fairly strong in the evenings, and she was developing her own fanbase in her short time on the air for the station, her show was not necessarily a favorite among WGN-AM loyalists. After new management took over the station last year, Ryder was among the first ones released.

For the last few years, Ryder has been a top fill-in host on talk radio stations around the country.  Currently on Sunday afternoons, Turi Ryder is the host of on the Envision Radio Network's nationally syndicated "America Weekend" programming, airing from 11:00am-2:00pm.

Ryder's one-week return to WGN-AM begins Monday, March 17th at 11:00pm.

WGN-AM's 11:00pm-2:00am time slot became vacant in February, when "The David Kaplan Show" ended so Kaplan could move to WGWG-LP/The Game 87.7 FM.

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