Saturday Morning Flashback

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Saturday Morning Flashback is a program airing from 8 AM until 12 noon Saturday mornings on Chicago radio station WXRT. The show is hosted by WXRT DJ Wendy Rice and features contributions from several other WXRT DJs including Lin Brehmer and Marty Lennartz, who provides the voice for Chicago's hometown movie critic "the regular guy". Each week, Saturday Morning Flashack highlights the key music and cultural events encompassing a single year from the rock and roll era.

In 2006, WXRT announced that, after 20 years, Saturday Morning Flashback would air its final show on April 1. This "finale" would feature ads for XRT's new Saturday morning programming, including a radio version of Fox's hit TV show "24". This turned out to be nothing more than an elaborate April Fool's Day hoax and programming director Norm Winer addressed listeners at the end of the show to ensure them that this popular program would not go away any time soon.