LS appears to be getting desperate, and if they drop Rush, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them go on life support.
Proft and Wolf were great for local stuff; Roeper was a predictable leftie, but I liked Conn, who was all over the place but could be amusing in a wacky sort of way. Kass was not made for radio, but one could count on him to tell it like it is, and he was one of the few voices in the city with any influence who had the guts to call out the Machine at both the city and state level. Interesting how he got his pink-slip just as Rahm was being shown he might be on the way out the door.
They’re all gone, replaced by Dahl, who is well-past his sell-by date, along with his posse of mindless toadies; most of the rest of the day is a bunch of non-entities. How the station expects to draw ears without Rush as its anchor is beyond me, but they’re clearly not doing anything to retain any conservative listenership he might bring in.
I have fond memories of the music-based WLS AM battling WCFL for audience - it now looks like they’re trying their best to follow WCFL to the radio graveyard.
Roe and Gary were awesome.