Phil Rosenthal on Drew Hayes double-duties

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: WLS-AM's Hayes adds duties at DC's WMAL : Chicago is gaining even more influence in Washington DC. Drew Hayes, who only a few months ago returned as operations director to Citadel Broadcasting's WLS-AM 890, the station he helped turn into a talk powerhouse two decades ago, is adding programming responsibilities for Citadel's WMAL-AM, as well. : Hayes, who will remain based in Chicago, replaces, Paul Duckworth in DC. : "Drew’s added responsibilities (are) a result of the company’s vote of confidence in him and a reflection of the programming strides and ratings growth WLS-AM has already experienced," Michael Damsky, president and general manager of Citadel's WLS-AM and FM, said in a note announcing the move to his staff Monday. "WLS is Drew’s passion, but I believe that passion is deep enough for us to be able to afford to share some of it with our nation’s capital." : Damsky wrote that it was the station's "confidence in the expertise of Tracy Slutzkin, who works with Drew in managing WLS’s on-air and internet programming," that enabled it to share Hayes. : Hayes said late Monday he did not yet know what was needed at WMAL and whether there would be opportunities to share talent and resources. "There are a lot of similarities and they're both big, powerful, important stations," he said. "I want to see what makes 'MAL tick. But it is DC. That's a pretty good opportunity." : Damsky made Hayes one of his first hires after taking over WLS in mid-January. Hayes had been operations director at CBS Radio's WBBM-AM 780 and WSCR-AM 670. : A native New Yorker, Hayes first made a name for himself in Chicago from 1986 to 1988 as a talk-show host at the late WMAQ-AM. He left to program a station in Cincinnati, but then-WLS-AM boss Tom Tradup brought him back to town as program director and together they launched its talk format in August of 1989. Hayes eventually became operations director. : Hayes left WLS-AM and Chicago in 1996 for the ESPN Radio Network in Bristol, Conn., where he was general manager, later becoming program director and operations manager at Los Angeles' KABC-AM. He returned to Chicago yet again in 2001, serving CBS Radio in a variety of capacities at the late WCKG-FM, WBBM-AM and at WSCR. : Comments : Now how did he do at WCKG?! : o god he killed ckg, i think it went spanish

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