Dan O'Donnell to get his own show on WISN-AM

After more than three years as a news anchor, reporter and substitute host at WISN-AM (1130), Milwaukee radio veteran Dan O'Donnell is finally getting his own show.

The news/talk station announced Monday that O'Donnell, who joined WISN in 2013 after more than a decade at WTMJ-AM (620), will host "The Dan O'Donnell Show" weekdays from 9 to 11 a.m. starting Jan. 3.

Although O'Donnell has been an on-air fixture at WISN since he joined the station, his getting his own show will create ripples throughout the conservative-skewing station's schedule to start off 2017.

Jay Weber's show, now on from 6 to 10 a.m., will lose an hour, ending at 9. Vicki McKenna, whose show also airs afternoons on WIBA-AM in Madison, will move from the 10 a.m. to noon slot to 2 to 3 p.m. Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated show, currently on from noon to 3 p.m., will shift back an hour earlier, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Longtime drive-time host Mark Belling's 3 to 6 p.m. slot is the only one in WISN's lineup that'll stay the same.

O'Donnell's addition to the schedule will come after the departure from the local conservative talk show landscape of Charlie Sykes, who is stepping down from his 8:30 a.m. to noon show on WTMJ-AM (620) at the end of this year. Jeff Wagner, who hosts a show on WTMJ from noon to 3 p.m., will take over Sykes' morning slot in January.