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Report: Hosts Learn On-Air of Demise from Twitter
RADIO ONLINE | Friday, November 21, 2014 |
Ben Finfer of WGWG-FM (87.7 The Game)/Chicago's "Quigs & Finfer" show learned in the middle of their program on Thursday that Tribune Media would end its Sports format, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. They received the news, not from management, but from Chicago media reporter Robert Feder, who tweeted the story during their show.
"We're doing a live show here," said Finfer on-air. "And to be told this way, it's really a letdown. We're getting screwed on this one... We just found out on Twitter a half hour ago that the station is being taken off the air. We were not told about this ahead of time."
"We didn't know anything about it. We were coming back from a break and saw on Twitter from Robert Feder that the station is being taken off the air. Can you believe that? A lot of really talented people were hired to work at this station and found out through Twitter that they were fired. Nothing from the bosses," he said.
According to Feder, David Kaplan and David Haugh, who host 9am-noon, are expected to continue on Comcast Sports Net after radio operations cease. But few of the station's other sports/talk hosts are expected to remain with the company. The weekday lineup includes Finfer, Alex Quigley, Jarrett Payton, Harry Teinowitz, Spike Manton, Mark Carman and Connor McKnight.
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