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It's official -- the Cow is now... returning to Chicago radio. WLS 890 has announced that the radio personality everyone loves to hate, Mancow Muller, will begin broadcasting October 27th in the 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. slot, currently filled by conservative host Jerry Agar. In our interview with Muller last year he had some pretty harsh words for FM radio, so it's not surprising that he eventually wound up on an AM powerhouse. He also said at the time that offers had been coming in weekly and he could "be on [in Chicago] tomorrow" -- so the question is, if that's true, did he wait too long?
Mancow Muller has certainly had a lot of success during his stint in Chicago radio. He arguably rescued Rock 103.5 when he came on the scene in 1994, and at the time of his surprise removal from Q-101 in 2006, when he was replaced by an ensemble cast the "Morning Fix" (who never caught on and finally flamed out for good last summer), Mancow certainly still had an audience, ranking high among men ages 18 - 49, and bringing in significant revenue for the station. But while his increasingly right wing tirades on venues like Fox News might make him seem like a good fit to precede Rush Limbaugh (WLS general manager Mike Fowler is touting Mancow as a "younger version of Rush"), his style and "shock jock" persona seems to have fallen out of favor in this market. Howard Stern is off in the satellite hinterland, Steve Dahl -- as Robert Feder pointed out with one final zinger -- has fallen off the ratings map. Is there a significant number of former fans that are going to make the trek to the AM dial? We can't imagine many listeners of the decidedly more genteel Don Wade & Roma will stick around past the 9 o'clock hour. Guess we'll find out next week. [Trib, S-T]
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Mancow can only ever wish to be a good as his source for material, Howard Stern. In fact with Howard on satellite we can look forward to even more rehashed Stern material on The Cow's new more conservative home.
Ugh. Your 15 minutes was up a long time ago, Erich.
What's worse than Jerry Agar? Oh look we found someone!
Steve Dahl did a great bit on just how deranged Mancow has gotten at this point. Over the summer "the cow" appeared on Fox and Friends claiming
-Obama is a secret Muslim
-Michelle Obama went on a racist rant
-Cardinal Bernadin arrange a papal audience for him in November (Funny since Benadin is...y'know...dead)
He's a nutter and WLS is one desperate station to put his nonsense on that air.
Roe Conn is tolerable at times, but WLS has decided to jam so many commercials in along with utterly useless headline news that you get about 10 minutes of actual content every hour. Personality-driven radio is happening in podcast form these days.
Does anyone even listen to terrestrial radio anymore? Seriously.
(Well, aside from WBEZ of course ... although I listen to them mostly online and via podcasts, so maybe they don't even count as terrestrial radio anymore.)
Hi I'm Mancow, Americans are stupid so I'm reach
opps rich
@Tankboy: For what it's worth, I still listen to quite a bit of terrestrial radio. Dahl in the morning, XRT throughout the day in my office, and NPR on the way home from work and on weekends.
Is he is some kind of competition with mariotti to see who has the dorkiest photo?
in some kind of competition
@Tankboy:
I get Dahl on podcast and flip between NPR and WLS on my way home, but less and less with WLS since Roe Connn has decided to fully embrace the right-wing nutso point of view. NPR has been a bit...bleak of late. One afternoon I counted 5 stories in a row about how fucking DOOMED we are on "All Things Considered". Seriously, people are still making music and art and movies and doing wonderful happy things. Not everything is how buggered the economy is.
I just like a bit of yammering. The perfect background nothing.
I can't stand Mancow. Not only is he a painfully obvious ripoff of Howard Stern, but he's a thinly veiled racist.
-Does anyone even listen to terrestrial radio anymore? Seriously.
Kind of elitist there, aren't you Tankboy? I don't listen to anything other than terrestrial radio and I never realized, until now, that anything was wrong with that.
The funniest thing about right-wing morning-Zoo disc jockeys like Mancow is their attempt to combine conservative rhetoric with toilet humor and STILL have the temerity to regard themselves as someone who's making a difference and standing up for something.
Terrestrial radio. Um, yeah...I still listen to terrestrial radio. College of DuPage (90.9), great jazz in the morning. Dick Biondi(!) is still spinning the classics at every night on 94.7. God bless Dick Biondi!!!
I saw Cheap Trick @ the 10 Year Anniversary party for the Chicago Hard Rock. At one point they announced that Mancow was in the audience. The response for the crowd- total silence. Not even booing, just silence.
I miss Jay Marvin.
And the eternal question of why certain media people seem to keep getting jobs or keep jobs continues...
Mancow
Johnny B
Diann Burns
Dick Biondi
Mike Barz
Mike North
et al...
So is he bringing his "crew" with him? Turd, Fart, Mucus, Booger, etc...?
ew.
Anyone remember Mancow's regular piece during his Q101 show where the (pre-recorded) voice talked about the global communist conspiracy and about how Bill Clinton was going to send people to concentration camps as if he were the modern Stalin?
Mancow is an idiot and must hold some weird paranoid beliefs to even consider having that as a regular segment on his show.
I wont be listening to his new AM show especially if he is even more paranoid-rightwing than he was during the Clinton years.
Just one look at the comments above shows EXACTLY why Mancow is needed on WLS.
Mancow will skewer the sanctimonious, self-congratulatory liberals. You know, the ones who "care." In fact, you can find plenty of them among the Chicagoist commenters.
And when President Obama comes out with his huge tax increases--which he will, despite his claims--Mancow will among those to make fun of the Obamessiah.
Welcome back, Mancow (NO sarcasm). Hey, maybe an Obama presidency will be fun after all!
Ward,
Big surprise that you'd be a fan of this big mouthed idiot.
btw...wasn't it Bush 1 who said "Read my lips: no new taxes" ?
and then he raised taxes.
You think that Obama invented raising taxes or something?
You won't remotely be able to equate Bush's tax increase to the increase we are going to get from the Chosen One.
First, Bush, Sr. was dragged into his tax increase by Democrats who wanted to spend, spend, spend. Bush, Sr.'s mistake was giving in. And it cost him. He lost to Clinton, who pledged a big tax cut.
And what happened? Clinton won, in part, because of this tax cut pledge.
But after taking office, he introduced--and the Democrat-controlled congress passed--the largest tax hike in US history. Pork and vote-buying entitlement handouts for everyone!
The Chosen One will do the same thing. Bait and Switch. It's the Democrats' way of life. Let's meet back here in six months and see if I am right.
Death and taxes Ward.....death and taxes.
I'd rather pay taxes than be involved in a hundred year war.
How much is it that we're hemorrhaging into this frikking war again?
Ingrid, you will find no support from me for the decision to invade Iraq. It was a huge mistake and, in my view, was AGAINST Republican principles and built on deception of the public by the idiotic Bush administration. Republicans support military strength, not military blundering.
That's why Bush's approval rating is 18 per cent. Because a majority of REPUBLICANS think he is an idiot. That is unprecedented for a Republican president.
And, while Democrat-inspired policies led to millions of risky mortgages, it was Bush who allowed the situation to fester without opposition.
Anyway, in 2010 congressional elections, with Bush gone, and with people mad about the tax hikes, the Democrats are going to get whipped bad.
Politicians will say whatever it is to get elected. Mancow is not a shock jock. I would say his comments are more racist and prejudice than shock.
I heard (from what I remember) this on the radio one time and that is the last time I listened Mancow:
"Muslims should be stoned to death, wrapped them in bacon and throw them in a graveyard face down."
To Ward Up:
If it is true that there was the highest tax increase in U.S. history, at least Clinton left the country with a surplus not a deficit.
Republicans supposedly stand for less government and spending, but its seems like the last 4 or 5 Republican presidents have actually done the total opposite.
I only listem to extraterrestrial radio.
Ward,
That's all true about Bush, but McCain has not problem with continuing this war for another 100 years...so that puts him on the same page as Bush. The McCain of years gone by is a much different person than the erratic, eye rolling, name calling, desperate, doddering old man of today.
And yes, kgvs72, Mancow flatters himself with the term 'shock jock'. He's horrible.
Racist and blithering.
It stymies me that there is a place for him today.
Hey, back to Mancow for a minute.
Some above suggested that Mancow might not be the right fit to follow Don Wade and Roma.
I think that's a good observation. And part of the answer to that problem is that I'll bet Don Wade and Roma's days are numbered.
Roma will definitely get the hook within one year. Don Wade might have a chance to stay, but I doubt it. People see them as a package. Who will replace them? That's the big question.
Hey, one possibility is that when Don Wade and Roma are gone, Mancow will slide into their spot. Then it's the mid-morning that will be open. And who will get that? Back to Jerry Agar?
I'll stick to podcasts and the occasional Howard 100. Mancow will bomb. I give him six weeks before he goes too far and gets pulled.
And, while Democrat-inspired policies led to millions of risky mortgages,
Actually, sweetie, while Bill Clinton and a host of other Dems do share great blame for this mess--Clinton bent over for Wall Street as good as any Republican has, and he pushed through some damaging de-regulation bills--the seeds of this crisis really go back at least as far as Reagan's very odd economic practices, which mainly amounted to cutting taxes and running up our deficits and debts. Beyond the economic impacts of such practices, so-called Reagonomics have had great, and bad, political and cultural influences. For one thing, greed--always a part of the American culture, I admit--because almost a holy thing.
"Just one look at the comments above shows EXACTLY why Mancow is needed on WLS."
Mancow is needed to spew his usual paranoia about the coming communist New World Order like he did in the 90s? give me a break.
enjoy being irrelevant for the next 8-10 years.
I moved to Chicago 3 years ago and have never listened to a minute of Chicago radio.
I have heard of Mancow but will not listen today at 9am. Who cares. He's been over for years.