Cleveland Radio: John Lanigan Retires This Week

John Lanigan

Cleveland radio personality and a morning mainstay on WMJI FM/105.7 John Lanigan will end his 29-year run at the station on this Saturday, following WMJI's annual Moondog Coronation Ball.

WMJI will pay tribute to Lanigan at the Moondog show.

"We can't thank John enough for his dedication and performance over the years," says WMJI operations manager Keith Abrams. "We will continue to have a relationship with John moving forward, but it won't involve him getting up at 4 a.m."

Lanigan announced his retirement in January.  His run in Cleveland began in 1970, when he became the morning show host at WGAR 1220 AM, to replace Don Imus. He left to work in Florida for two years in 1983. Lanigan returned to Cleveland in 1985 to work for WMJI and has remained there ever since.

Lanigan's run in Cleveland is extraordinary in the industry, says radio consultant John Gorman.

"There are very, very few radio personalities around the country, especially in the major markets, that dominated all those years on the radio," says John Gorman, who worked with Lanigan at WMJI between 1989 and 1996. "Cleveland was blessed to have an on-air personality like him -- he really belonged in New York, he's that good."



Lanigan was inducted in the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago in November 2013.

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Mark Nolan will be taking Lanigan's place, starting April 1.

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