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 Monday thru Friday mornings from 8 until 9:30 on mainstream WJJG 1530 AM Radio, the program features one of Chicago’s best known and most flamboyant Chicago journalists 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 video 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:

Highland Park to the north
Arlington Heights and Palatine to the northwest
Elgin, St. Charles and Aurora on the West
Oak Lawn and even as far as Orland Park on the Southwest
Chicago, from Pulaski Road west

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.

Internet Video Broadcast – Using the latest technologies, Mornings with Ray Hanania is also broadcast live on Internet Television. Again, you do not have to leave the Radio Chicagoland page. A "TV Screen" appears on the page and when the radio show is broadcast on radio, it is automatically broadcast on this video channel.

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 Comcast Cable TV – Ray hosts a weekly, Friday night TV program that is a video segment of the Radio Show, reaching homes in 145 suburban Chicago communities, the two largest broadcast districts in Comcast Cable TV.

On the Internet – The network of "Mornings with Ray Hanania" 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 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 columns are syndicated throughout the United States, 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.

Ray Hanania is the winner of three Society of Professional Journalism Lisagor Awards for column writing, two in the last four 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.

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 Ear service and his wife and son are Jewish.