Over at the T Dog Media Blog, Terence Henderson offers up his analysis of where Conan O’Brien may end up now that his brief tenure at NBC as host of The Tonight Show has come to an end, including the implications for Chicago TV stations.

Longtime Chicago producer Rick Kaempfer interviews another longtime Chicago producer Todd Ronczkowski over at Chicago Radio Spotlight. Ronczkowski spent many years producing for Roe Conn & Garry Meier before their break-up and then for Roe afterward. He’s now the PD at WVON-AM. In the interview, Ronczkowski talks about his feelings surrounding the Roe & Garry break-up.

Radiogirl Margaret Larkin talked to Cisco Cotto, who recently made the jump from WIND-AM back to WLS-AM. Topics discussed include Mancow’s religious faith, working with Roe Conn, and the state of radio in 2010.

You can listen to the podcast here:

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Just a week after Citadel Broadcasting chief Farid Suleman personally showed WLS-AM 890 general manager Mike Fowler the door, the new general manager Michael Damsky fired program director Bomb Shomper. Both Feder and Rosenthal have the story. In an interview with Feder earlier this week, Damsky hinted that the change would be coming:

My top priority is make sure WLS is being programmed to best showcase the talent that we have. We have great individual shows, but

…

Robert Feder reported on Monday that it’s looking increasingly likely that Jonathon Brandmeier will become the new afternoon drive host on WGN-AM 720 once Steve Cochran’s contract with the station runs out in March.