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| John Records Landecker Exits WIMS-AM, Sticks With WLS-FM |
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| Written by Larz | |||
| Saturday, 14 January 2012 12:30 | |||
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After finding it was too difficult to work for both WIMS-AM & WLS-FM, John Records Landecker, a true Chicago radio legend, has decided to stick with just one station: Chicago's WLS-FM. Landecker exited WIMS-AM as of Friday.
Landecker had been working at WIMS-AM since the Fall of 2007 (with the exception of two weeks), doing an afternoon talk show. WIMS-AM is located in nearby Michigan City, IN, close to Landecker's home. In early November, his show has shifted to music, and the talk personality gracefully segueing back to being a fun DJ. (This change was first reported HERE, exclusively on CRM.) Calling it the "John Records Landecker Music Explosion," the afternoon show played a wide variety of odlies, much of which came from Landecker's own collection of music. On December 17th, in addition to his WIMS-AM job, John Records Landecker returned to WLS-FM 94.7. The highly-influential and legendary Chicago DJ began doing 10:00am-3:00pm shifts each Saturday & Sunday. Landecker is also being used as a weekday fill-in host, and has been doing many weekday midday shifts, replacing Scott Shannon, who normally voice tracks his shift from New York. This started during the holidays, but has continued to happen on many days in January, even when Shannon was not on vacation. The return to 94.7 was a triple reunion for John Landecker. He was a DJ on the station, after it had flipped from Alternative Rock to Oldies and was still known as WZZN-FM. He was there for just over a year as its afternoon host before parting ways with the station in 2007. It also reunited him with Jan Jeffries, who was Landecker's Program Director at WAGO-FM. Jeffries is the Senior Vice President of Programming for Cumulus Media, as well as now the acting PD for WLS-FM since forcing out former PD, Michael La Crosse in October. The two worked well together in the past and wanted to work together once again at WLS-FM. Perhaps biggest of all, the move reunites Landecker with the famous WLS call letters, which he was most associated with in the 1970s. Bouncing back and forth between WIMS-AM & WLS-FM proved to be too difficult for Landecker. This week, he chose to just go with one radio station -- WLS-FM -- and parted ways with doing his afternoon show in Michigan City. He had left left WIMS-AM once before, in October 2009, to take a radio job in Fargo, ND. The frigid climate and the job itself left Landecker cold, so he quickly returned back to WIMS-AM just two weeks later. This time, it looks like Landecker won't be back at WIMS-AM so quickly. His weekend shifts on WLS-FM have proven to be extremely well received by WLS-FM fans, and his midday fill-in shifts have been increasing. Now, with Landecker's time more freed up from not working the WIMS-AM shift, more airtime on WLS-FM is a strong possibility. With the good news comes the bad... It appears that the nationally syndicated show that he hosts, "Into the Seventies," is no longer on WLS-FM schedule. The program previously aired on WLS-FM each Sunday night from 7:00-Midnight. Landecker has been the host of "Into the Seventies" for over four years for the TKO Radio Network. In addition to being one of the most famous DJs in America in the 1970s while he was at WLS-AM, John Records Landecker has also worked at the Chicago radio stations WLUP-FM, WAGO-FM, WCKG-FM, WJMK-FM, WZZN-FM, WGN-AM and a return stint on WLS-AM (but as a talk show host that time). And yes, Records truly is his middle name. 
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