OK, so I’m too young to have seen the Garry/Dahl disintigration, but is Garry really blowing it a second time?
Granted, I haven’t been listening as much as I used to (especially since someone decided that they should have a 3:1 talk:commercial ratio (and it sometime seems even more skewed).
I suppose Roe’s calls for solidarity did sound like a suicide pact that one hopes they get talked out of. Man, I still remember when Jay Marvin was the greatest thing that could have happened to a kid that couldn’t yet drive and how many school nights I stayed up as long as I could to listen. Moving him to their FM station killed him though. Haven’t been able to listen to him since.
Hell, Garry did…OK on his own. He had Cecil on. Hmm…
Just for fun:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/feder/cst-fin-feder01.html
Well, I’d say the end of Roe and Garry certainly isn’t the death of Chicago Radio. Personally, I like Kevin Matthews and Howard Stern. But then again I like to be entertained and not bored to death! 
Oh how I miss my Chicago radio! I wore my Steve & Garry tomato shirt to jog in the other day and no one I passed bothered to sing:
“Steve & Garry
Scumbag wormy
Idiooooooots!”*
I used to have a Kevin Matthews “Kev Head” shirt from around the same period, but I think my brother stole it when he went to college.
*To the tune of: “588-2300 - Empire!”
If you’re interested, Bob Sirrott is running an interview with Garry on Chicago Tonight Friday at 7:30 on Channel 11. According to Sun Times TV critic Phil Rosenthal, who appears regularly on Steve Dahl’s show, the interview is a half-hour rant against Roe (?!). Apparently, the guy really knows how to burn his bridges.
I never listened to Roe and Garry, but I used to listen to Steve and Garry, and I still listen to Steve Dahl most afternoons. From what I’ve heard, the offer to Garry was more than generous ($1.2 million a year for 10 years), and nobody can figure out what he was thinking to turn it down.
Wasn’t the end of Chicago radio when WCFL became WLUP and went all-talk?