Conservative talk-radio host Jeff Wagner will retire at Milwaukee's WTMJ-AM (620)
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WTMJ-AM (620) conservative talk-radio host Jeff Wagner says he's retiring after more than 25 years on Milwaukee radio.
Wagner made the announcement at the start of his show Thursday.
“To have the ability to work on a radio station in your hometown in essentially the same time slot for 25 years, it doesn't happen very often," Wagner told his listeners Thursday.
Wagner, whose show airs weekdays on WTMJ from noon to 3 p.m., said he will sign off for good from the Good Karma Brands-owned station on Dec. 15.
On Thursday's broadcast, he said he plans first to take some time off, but he's "kicking around a few ideas" about being involved in public policy or advocacy issues — or even return to fill-in radio work.
"I'm looking to see what the opportunities are," Wagner said.
A former U.S. attorney and unsuccessful Republican candidate for state attorney general, Wagner began his radio career filling in for conservative talk show hosts on WISN-AM (1130) in 1995, eventually becoming the regular fill-in for WISN's Mark Belling.
Wagner joined WTMJ in July 1998, as a regular host, sitting in for the station's then-morning host Charlie Sykes and hosting his own show on Saturdays. In November of that year, when Sykes returned after a two-month leave, Wagner picked up the noon-to-2 p.m. weekday slot — at the time, opposite Rush Limbaugh's show on WISN — after WTMJ lost the syndicated Dr. Laura Schlessinger show. Wagner's show later was expanded to three hours.
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee conservative talk-radio host Jeff Wagner retiring at WTMJ-AM
