About Mornings with Ray Hanania on WJJG Radio 1530 AM

“Mornings with Ray Hanania” is the lively new radio show in Chicagoland with an emphasis on the region’s 6 million listening audience. The format is talk enocuraging callers to call-in and participate int he discussions and even lead the discussions. Mornings with Ray Hanania gives a national and even international voice to the listeners in the Chicagoland region on all topics from local, to regional to national to international.

Broadcast SUNDAY mornings from 8 until 10 on mainstream WSBC 1240 AM Radio (which covers Northern Illinois and the Chicagoland region) and on WCFJ 1470 AM Radio (which covers the Chicago Southlands, south of Palos Heights and the Northwest Indiana region.

The program features one of Chicago’s best known and most flamboyant Chicago journalists, Ray Hanania, as its host.

A veteran of print and newspapers, covering Chicago City Hall from Daley-to-Daley and breaking the city’s biggest scoops, Hanania is a magnet for attention. Audiences love Ray Hanania or they hate Ray Hanania. But, they listen to and read Ray Hanania.

More importantly, though, is that the new morning radio program is the cornerstone of a growing community-focused communications network that is the new model for how businesses can maximize their returns in marketing and advertising dollars.

The show is not only broadcast on radio, it also is simulcast on the Internet on several online networks with heavy visitor traffic, in audio and in video (experimental) formats.

Here’s an overview of how print, broadcast and internet come together to put your advertisement on the radar screen of listeners and readers:

Radio broadcast – The broadcast signal reaches the heart of Chicagoland's strongest consumer market and covers most of Northern Illinois, south to Palos and Oak Forest. The signal continues south but weakens but can be obstructed around Orland Park and Tinley park.
(Click HERE to view the broadcast map?)

WSBC AM 1240 Radio (Chicagoland north of Orland Park)

Highland Park to the north
Arlington Heights and Palatine to the northwest
Elgin, St. Charles and Aurora on the West
Oak Lawn and Orland Park on the Southwest Side
Chicago, from Pulaski Road west
To the Wisconsin Border north
To the Iowa Border west

WCFJ AM 1470 Radio (Chicago Southlands)

Orland Park
Tinley Park
Frankfort
Mokena
Chicago Heights
Northwestern Indiana
Steger
Homewood
Flossmoor

Internet Audio Broadcast – Using the latest technologies, Mornings with Ray Hanania can also be heard live on the Internet. There is a unique iPod Player right on the Radio Chicagoland web site. Visitors can scroll through the archived audios and select the one they want to hear and play it without any hassles or fuss.

Currently, we broadcast Radio Chicagoland (and Radio Baladi) live. When either show is not broadcasting live, the most recent shows are broadcast in sequence and in a continuous loop online. CLICK HERE for both the LIVE broadcast during the show times, or for the continuous rebroadcast of both shows.

Internet Podcasting – Segment interviews, including your message and sponsorship, are archived on iTunes for download to iPods. Your message will be included in the interviews that count and are distributed to more than a thousand subscribers on iTunes who download Ray Hanania’s interviews to their iPods and computers using the Internet’s most popular podcasting site, iTunes. (Podcasting is merely the audio segment that is automatically downloaded to computers by listeners so they can hear the show at their convenience, or rehear it, as the case may be.)

You are NOT just getting radio. “Mornings with Ray Hanania’s” reach is enhanced in many important ways:

In Print/Newspapers – Ray Hanania authors an award winning column that is published weekly in print on Chicago’s Southwest side and suburbs, and in exclusive columns that appear on the newspaper’s web site at www.SWNewsHerald.com.

On the Internet – The network of "The Ray Hanania Show" includes four main web sites with a cumulative visitor traffic averaging around 5,000 Views Per Day that include:

In a weekly Listener Newsletter – Ray sends out a newsletter to more than 1,600 recipients listing the show’s schedules, and also providing internet linked advertising space for show sponsors. The list is growing and listeners can easily and automatically subscribe to the newsletter from the Radio Chicagoland web page.

If that isn’t enough, Hanania’s opinion columns are syndicated throughout the United States and the world, including on the number one Internet web blog, the HuffingtonPost.com which “shirttails” his program, or, references Radio Chicagoland on the bottom of every column. He writes a weekly column for the prestigious Jerusalem Post Newspaper, and also for the Southwest News-Herald Newspaper, and several other major publications.

Ray Hanania is the winner of FOUR (4) Society of Professional Journalism Lisagor Awards for column writing and in-Depth reporting, including three in the last five years. He was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” in the nation by the New America Media is California in November 2006. In 1991, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times for a Pulitzer Prize. Winner 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award (SPJ) for Column Wriiting.

He is frequently booked as a guest or commentator on Chicagoland political talk shows, and is quoted often in regional media. And adding a popular aspect to his show, Hanania is an accomplished standup comedian. Like everything else, Hanania didn’t enter comedy quietly but in an international blast when he locked horns with famed comedian Jackie Mason at Zanies Comedy Club in 2002. Hanania’s comedy advocates Middle East peace and not everyone likes that. Well, maybe his wife does. He’s Palestinian American, a veteran of Vietnam Era service and his wife and son are Jewish.