Longtime 1130 WISN host Mark Belling is stepping away at the end of the year. The iHeartMedia Milwaukee station will shift Dan O’Donnell to Belling’s timeslot.
O’Donnell had previously hosted the 9-11 AM timeslot for the station, and will now shift to the 3-6 PM window that Belling occupied. Belling announced his plans to step away from the 1130 WISN lineup in favor of a podcast after working at the station for nearly 35 years. Belling’s new podcast will debut on May 1st, the station announced Tuesday.
“I am really excited,” said O’Donnell. “Obviously, it’s not just big shoes to fill, but the biggest in terms of local conservative talk in the entire country.”
News anchor Benjamin Yount will step into the 9-11 AM timeslot that O’Donnell has hosted since joining the station nearly 11 years ago. Yount has worked on The Jay Weber Show in morning drive and served as a fill-in host for the daypart as well.
“What’s great about this is all of these people are familiar to our listeners,” 1130 WISN Program Director Jerry Bott said. “We were able to do it all in-house. Everybody understands the mission of WISN which does not change one iota. We press forward as the counterpoint to the mainstream media.”
Weber will remain in mornings from 6-9 AM, while The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (11 AM-2 PM) and The Vicki McKenna Show (2-3 PM) will also stay unchanged in the iHeartMedia Milwaukee news/talk station’s lineup.
The new 1130 WISN lineup will begin on Thursday, January 2nd.
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