Brehmer Moves To Middays On WXRT
• After one of the longest morning drive runs in Chicago radio history — 28 years, to be exact — Entercom Triple A WXRT/Chicago announced that iron man Lin Brehmer will be unplugging from the dawn patrol and moving to middays in early 2020.
“Like a veteran centerfielder who moves to first base, I look forward to batting second,” said Brehmer (above, left), who joined 93XRT as MD in October 1984 and did his first morning show on December 30, 1991. He added, “The exhilaration of being a morning companion to the families that support 93XRT offset the brutal schedule of someone who likes to go to concerts at night. I’m not 29 anymore. May the phrase, ‘Isn’t it past your bedtime?’ be applied to someone else for a while.”
To accommodate Brehmer’s shift to middays, current midday personality Richard Milne will segue to mornings. Milne (left), the one-time host of the long running series Local Anesthetic has been with 93XRT since 1986 and has done the midday show since this past summer. “Even after 33 1/3 years on the air at 93XRT, it still makes me one of the ‘new guys’ here, and it’s still a thrill to come into 93XRT every day and spin Chicago’s Finest Rock,” said Milne. “It has also given me plenty of time to learn from the best airstaff around, especially the incomparable Lin Brehmer. It’s an absolute honor to take over mornings from my favorite disc jockey of all time.”
OM/PD Greg Solk said, “93XRT has long held the reputation for playing Chicago’s Finest Rock, but also has enjoyed hosting Chicago’s finest jocks. Lin Brehmer is a Chicago treasure. All of us at the station are indebted to Lin for his 28 years of wrestling with his alarm clock. His morning fans will now get to enjoy their best friend in the whole world sharing their workday as Lin accompanies their middle of the day rituals. We are also blessed to have someone of Richard’s character, charm, music knowledge and wit to take over for Lin. It’s Richard’s turn to get in early and Rock Chicago.” Concurrent with these personnel shifts, current XRT morning news anchor Mary Dixon will depart the station.
