Chicago Radio: Report..Jack Diamond To Mornings At WLS-FM

Jack Diamond (photo)

Jack Diamond, the  longtime Washington, DC, radio personality at WRQX 107.3 FM, is expected to be named morning host at WLS 94.7 FM.

Insiders tell Chicago Media writer Robert Feder that Diamond will start Monday on the Cumulus Media classic hits station, Diamond joins the current morning lineup including air talent/meteorologist Brant Miller, Marty Jones with information/traffic updates and producer Dan Wolfe.

The 60-year-old Diamond began his full-time career in radio at the age of 16 while a junior in high school. His first full-time on-air job was at WINX, a Top-40 radio station in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. He originally went by the name of Bruce Diamond on air at WINX.

His birth name is Harvey Joel Fischer.

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While at WINX, Jack did 7:00 pm-midnight, Monday-Friday during his junior year, and afternoons 3:00 pm–7:00 pm during his senior year.

After working for a few years at WINX, he moved to WEEL in Fairfax, Virginia for another two year run.

At the age of 19, his radio career began. Diamond worked in Washington, D.C., Denver, Providence, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Boston, Seattle, San Antonio, San Francisco, Atlanta, San Diego, New York and Chicago.

Some of the stations he has worked at are WABC, WLS, KNBR, KSON, WPRO & PRO-FM, WQXI, WCBM, WRKO, and WRQX.

Diamond filled-in on WLS-FM in early August. Many believed it was test-run to become the morning host fulltime.  There were reports that a contract couldn't be reach,  At the time,  it was reported rejected an offer by WLS-FM to become its new morning show host becuae the WLS-FM offer was only for one-year and that did not give Diamond the security he wished for in order to move his family to the Midwest.

On August 18, 2014, Diamond began co-hosting mornings with Kim Morrison at 1980s-based classic hits station XHPRS 105.7 FM in the San Diego market.  However, on September 1, 2014, he announced on his Facebook page that he'd left XHPRS and was working on a new opportunity.