{"id":6538,"date":"2023-10-19T21:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2023-10-19T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:12:04","slug":"620-wtmjs-jeff-wagner-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6538","title":{"rendered":"620 WTMJ\u2019s Jeff Wagner Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/jeff-wagner-announces-retirement-620-wtmj\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/jeff-wagner-announces-retirement-620-wtmj\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Collage-Maker-19-Oct-2023-03-29-PM-3062.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jeff Wagner Announces Retirement\" title=\"Jeff Wagner Announces Retirement\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Jeff Wagner, <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/wtmj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\">WTMJ-AM (620)<\/a> talk-radio host, is retiring after 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Wagner announced the news Thursday on his show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I\u2019m excited to see what comes next, I will truly miss the daily interaction with listeners about the issues of the day,\u201d Wagner said.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/wtmj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTMJ<\/a>, \u201cThe former assistant U.S. Attorney started as a part-time host on WTMJ in 1998 and began hosting a full-time show in November of that same year. Throughout his radio career, Jeff was recognized by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffwagner620\/status\/1669031584421355541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Talker\u2019s Magazine<\/a> as one of the \u201c100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America\u201d for nine consecutive years and ten of the last eleven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wagner, whose show is on weekdays from 12 pm to 3 pm, said his last show will be Dec. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Watch his announcement here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"6pKsGqJ8GfQ\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeff Wagner announces retirement after 25 years on WTMJ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6pKsGqJ8GfQ?start=406&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/jeff-wagner-announces-retirement-620-wtmj\/ Jeff Wagner, WTMJ-AM (620) talk-radio host, is retiring after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6541,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}