Melissa Forman

Melissa Forman is a popular radio and TV personality in Chicago. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Forman has hosted WLIT's, Chicago Lite 93.9 Morning Drive Time Show. Employed by Clear Channel Communications at WLIT, Forman was fired in August 2009, after six years serving in various DJ posts at WLIT. This was because, according to Earl Jones, president and market manager of Clear Channel Radio/Chicago, "She's done everything we've asked her to do. This is not about Melissa."^[1] This is the same Clear Channel Communications that signed Rush Limbaugh, known in flaming radical circles as Lieloud, to a $285 million, eight year contract in 2001,^[2]; and which banned, of all things, Cat Stevens's song, Peace Train in the wake of the attacks of 9/11; 2001, not 1973.^[3]

Forman currently co-hosts with Jeanne Sparrow, Chicago's WCIU-TV's You & Me This Morning^[4]

Melissa Forman grew up in Northbrook where she attended Glenbrook North High School. She went on to graduate college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2008 Melissa received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Glenbrook North where she was recognized for her leadership as an outstanding radio broadcaster and for her contribution to the community. She has been one of only a few women to lead a morning radio show and the first woman in the country to simultaneously host both a show in the morning and in the afternoon drive. She has also helped raise over $500,000 for local charities.

Melissa's radio career started in Champaign, Illinois where she worked as an intern and received her first break imitating Bart Simpson on Mix 94.5. That break led to an incredibly successful five-year, on- air teaming with her partner, Jerome Ritchie. She then moved to Cincinnati where she worked at Mix 94.1. In 1999, she moved home to Chicago where she worked at WKIE-FM 92.7/5 (KISS FM). In 2001 she started hosting morning drive at WLIT-FM 93.9 in Chicago until August of 2009 with a team she loved.

In 2007 Melissa hosted 'Homes Plus' on CLTV with Jane Monzures; it was a fun- filled, informative show about home developments across Chicagoland. Her on-air radio adventures have taken her flying at six G's in fighter jets, hot air ballooning live on the air, sitting in 17,000 seats in chilly November at Memorial Stadium in order to raise money for a children's charity, and living in a shopping mall for four straight days. Radio has definitely been an outlet for Melissa to both connect and engage.

Forman is the happily married mother of four children.^[5]

References

1. ^ Rosenthal, Phil (August 13, 2009). "Melissa Forman out at WLIT-FM -- again". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
2. ^ Steltzer, Brian (July 3, 2008)."A Lucrative Deal for Rush Limbaugh ". New York Times. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
3. ^ Morello, Tom (November/December 2001). "The New Blacklist". Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
4. ^ "WCIU, The U / You and Me This Morning". WCIU-TV. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
5. ^ "Melissa Forman - About". MelissaForman.com. Retrieved September 26, 2011.

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