N/T WLS 890 AM Program Director Peter Bolger continues to tweak the talk line-up at the Big 89. Thursday, he told John Kass and Lauren Cohn that they were out after their 9am-11 morning show. The change makes time for a new show by market vet Jonathan Brandmeier. He's been signed by Westwood One for the new nationally syndicated show.
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| John Kass |
Chicago Media writer
Robert Feder first reported the sudden removal of Kass and Cohn from WLS which follows the ouster of Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft in mornings, and Roe Conn and Richard Roeper in afternoons. Earlier this week, WLS also dropped Bruce DuMont, whose “Beyond the Beltway” show aired Sunday nights.
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| Lauren Cohn |
Kass, who is also a news columnist for the Chicago Tribune, began hosting middays on WLS in September 2012 with Jim Edwards (aka Jake Hartford). When Edwards died in January 2013, Kass was joined on the show by Lauren Cohn, a former Chicago television news anchor.
Cohn is going to audition as a cohost for the morning show with Big John Howell. which debuted last month on WLS. Kass is out.
Last month it was reported that 2014 was a disastrous year for Cumulus Media's WLS financially as revenue dropped a staggering 27.5 percent — from $13 million in 2013 to less than $9.5 million, according to figures compiled by Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co.
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In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, middays on WLS tied for 24th with 1.3 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 154,300. Among listeners between 25 and 54, middays tied for 32nd with a 0.7 share and 60,400 weekly cume.
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