Chicago Radio: Jack Diamond Mornings On WLS-FM This Week

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Veteran Washington DC morning personality Jack Diamond may be headed to WLS 94.7 FM.

In fact he's on the air at WLS all this week along with current morning host Brant Miller. And according to Chicago Media Blogger Robert Feder, the arrangement could become permanent.  Under the plan diamond would be host, Miller would remain as co-host and weather reporter, and Marti Jones continuing as news anchor.

Cumulus Media's VP/Programming Jan Jeffries worked with Diamond at WRQX in DC, where Diamond was morning host for almost n two decades. In the 1980s, they also worked at the former WQXI FM in Atlanta.

“Jack worked with me in Washington and Atlanta, and it seemed like it would be fun to put him in with Brant for a week,” he said.

Last month WLS FM came close to signing Ed Volkman and Joe Colborn, the radio duo known as Eddie & Jobo, to host mornings. But the plan fell through when Colborn turned down a 2½-year deal worth $1.2 million, leaving Volkman in the lurch.

While ratings for WLS FM have been on a roll for most of the year (with middays, afternoons and evenings in the top 10), mornings continue to underperform for the station.

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