Arts & Entertainment

Dick Biondi is Still Around; Moves to Weekend Mornings

The Chicago radio legend finds a new time to deliver the oldies on WLS.

Los Angeles has Vin Scully. Chicago has Dick Biondi.

There are radio legends, and then there are those that can much better be described as timeless broadcast treasures.

Scully and Biondi are the latter.

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Biondi, the Radio Hall of Famer who has been on the air since the 1940s and rocked Chicago airwaves in the 1960s and 1970s at WLS, has found his newest endeavor: the weekend morning show on WLS FM 94.7, Robert Feder reports.

Beginning this weekend, fans of the oldies can hear perhaps the city’s most recognizable voice from 6-10 a.m. on Saturdays and from 7-10 a.m. on Sundays. He most recently had been on air from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays.

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“The move is a step up that could result in a larger audience for the incomparable 83-year-old rock ’n’ roll radio legend, who’d been relegated to late nights for years at the Cumulus Media classic hits station,” according to Feder.

Biondi is a name that rings with Chicago-area radio lovers of all ages. He played all the new music when radio was hot in Chicago during the 60s and 70s on a team that included the likes of Clark Weber, Larry Lujack, Wolfman Jack and John “Records” Landecker. He has stuck with that variety of music - since the 90s referred to as “oldies” - ever since, and will now be the voice of weekend mornings.

“Having Dick Biondi on both days in the morning to wake up with is pretty cool,” said Peter Bowen, vice president and Chicago market manager of Cumulus Media. “Dick is phenomenal. I love the guy. And this will be good for everybody.”

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