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Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’

Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 15, 2022, 11:35 am

Great article, recommend you read all of it.

Met Ed many years ago at Erik's North. Great guy. Met his Dad Harry many many years ago when I was 5 years old. Kissed my Mom's hand (as he commonly did) and she promised never to wash it again. LOL. Great guy. Him and JoBo are 2 different people, but the magic when they were on the air together. JoBo has retreated from the public eye. Hope he is doing well. Him & Eddie went through a lot together between B96 round #1 and B96 round #2.

Z

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Generations of fans grew up listening to Ed Volkman and Joe Colborn, the endearing Chicago radio duo known as Eddie & Jobo.

Thanks to their 20-year run as the highly rated morning team on contemporary hit WBBM 96.3-FM and other stops along the way (as well as their ubiquitous TV ads hawking United Auto Insurance), they became rich, famous and seemingly inseparable.

All that ended in 2014 when Colborn turned down a lucrative offer to co-host mornings on classic hits WLS 94.7-FM, suddenly leaving Volkman without a partner and without a job. “Well, that’s all, folks,” Volkman declared. “There will be no Eddie & Jobo anymore.”

Link: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very

Re: Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’

Posted by ilgrant <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=ilgrant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 15, 2022, 11:42 am, in reply to "Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’"

The link is broken for some reason. Here is the article (maybe). https://www.robertfeder.com/2022/01/14/working-solo-suburbs-ed-volkman-finds-star-96-7-audience-welcoming/

Re: Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’

Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 15, 2022, 11:45 am, in reply to "Re: Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’"

Weird. No clue what happened, thought I placed the correct link.

Thanks Ilgrant!

Z

Re: Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’

Posted by Jeremy Andrews <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=Jeremy+Andrews' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 15, 2022, 6:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’"

Eddie is doing what he likes to do and people are listening. The suburban stations tend to have that local feel and the listeners will often embrace people like Eddie talking directly to their community. These are the stations people are often listening to in the car in the suburban areas. WSSR’s sister, WZSR in Crystal Lake has been doing very well lately and listening to it, I understand why. It’s local radio. Eddie did a good job serving listeners in that area at WFXF.

As for Jobo, I don’t blame him for wanting to stay away from where they wanted to hire him and out of the nonsense corporate radio. I think Jan Jeffries was running WLS-FM at the time. I have never heard a single good thing about Jan. Fred Winston only lasted a week or less there if I remember right and Dick Biondi was forced into overnights under his watch. Nobody was ever allowed to say much on the air. Was quite bland at times.

Re: Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’

Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 15, 2022, 7:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Rob Feder: Working solo in the suburbs, Ed Volkman finds Star 96.7 audience ‘very welcoming’"

Fred lasted a little more than a month. Great jock, just not PPM friendly. He has more fun tending bar than being on radio of today.

Jobo has had good and bad days with his demons. Only wish him the best. He knew it was a bad fit for Ed and him to land on WLS-FM. It would have been a paycheck, but the E&J type of radio is long gone. If KHITS would have allowed them to open up and not be PPM paranoid, it would have ended up different there, even if the music was way different that people grew up with them on B96 esp during the Killer Bee days.

Z

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