Christina Filiaggi

Christina Filiaggi is a former on-air contributor and traffic reporter for The Steve Dahl Show on WLS (AM) 890 in Chicago, Illinois. During her previous work as a reporter for Shadow Traffic, she also used the pseudonyms Angela Adams and Alex Jordan.[1]

Personal life and education

Filiaggi grew up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois where, in 1986, she graduated from Glenbard West High School. In 1990, she graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University where she majored in English and received her Bachelor of Arts degree and graduated with honors.[2]

Career

Filiaggi began her professional broadcasting career in 1993, working at The Steve Dahl & Garry Meier Show as an office manager. She was offered this job after attending a remote broadcast of the show at Hooters.[3] She later became a producer for Steve Dahl.[2][4]

She was laid off from WLS on February 29, 2008, due to corporate restructuring. On June 16, 2008, following a subsequent management change at the station and amid continued expressions of support from the show's fans, Filiaggi was reinstated; however, her reinstatement was short-lived.[5] On May 8, 2009 it was announced on The Roe Conn Show that she had once more been laid off by station management. She was replaced by former NBC 5 reporter and fill-in traffic reporter at WLS-AM, Amy Jacobson.[6][7] Starting June 7, 2009, Filiaggi was the sidekick on a week-to-week basis on the "Living Large with Geoff Pinkus" show, Sundays from 5-7 PM on WIND (AM) 560.[5]

On March 26, 2010, Conn announced that Filiaggi was returning to his show once again, while she would continue to work part-time as a bartender at O'Brien's Restaurant in Chicago.[8] She was also hired to do traffic reports on WLS-FM.[5]

With the replacement of Conn by Dahl on November 3, 2014, Filiaggi remained with WLS and continued to perform a similar role for his afternoon show.[9] Filiaggi conitnued in this capacity until the end of April 2017 when she was let go as part of job cuts by parent company Cumulus Media.[10]

References

  1. ↑ On air discussion, The Roe Conn Show, August 14, 2007
  2. 1 2 "Christina Filiaggi". Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Christina Filiaggi". Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ On air discussion, The Roe Conn Show, January 23, 2008
  5. 1 2 3 "Christina Filiaggi In; Jill Urchak Out At WLS". Chicago Radio and Media. March 26, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Jacobsen to Join Roe Conn Show". March 12, 2009. Archived from the original on July 24, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  7. ↑ Zorn, Eric (May 29, 2009). "WLS AM ousts Bill Leff, Roe Conn's sidekick". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  8. ↑ On air discussion, The Roe Conn Show, March 29, 2010
  9. ↑ Feder, Robert (October 8, 2014). "Joining WLS, Steve Dahl declares: 'Radio's not dead yet'". Robert Feder. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
  10. ↑ Feder, Robert (April 28, 2017). "Cumulus Media layoffs hit traffic reporters at WLS". Robert Feder. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
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