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Nick Digilio Bio, Age, Wife, WGN, The Nick Digilio Show, Salary, Twitter

Nick Digilio Biography

Nick Digilio is an American movie critic and radio personality who is the host of an award-winning radio program on WGN Radio in Chicago.

Nick is also a frequent fill-in host for WGN. He was inducted into the WGN Radio Walk Of Fame in 2017.

Nick Digilio Age

Nick was born on July 6, 1965, in Chicago, IL. He is 56 years old as of 2021. Digilio grew up about five blocks away from Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Luther North High School in 1983. He later attended Columbia College Chicago where he studied film.

 Nick Digilio Wife

Nick has kept his personal life out of the limelight for a long time. Information about whether he is married or not is not available. We will update when we get the details.

Nick Digilio WGN

In 1985, Nick began reviewing movies on the WGN Roy Leonard Show. His contributions to Roy’s program led WGN Radio management to decide that he’d be a good permanent addition to the station.

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He soon after became a regular on other WGN Radio programs, including Steve King and Johnnie Putman’s Life After Dark program.

Nick gained a reputation for his alternative and controversial play and movie reviews. He reviews all the new films on his own show.

Nick D. and Garry Lee 

Nick co-hosted a weekend late-night radio program on WGN with Garry Lee Wright for many years. On May 31, 1998, he began hosting his own program called Nick at Night – joined by Wright on Fridays.

The Nick Digilio Show

On February 10, 2006, his program’s name was changed to ‘The Nick Digilio Show’ to correspond with a move from late-nights to prime time on Saturday night and not-so-late nights on Friday and Sunday nights.

The show is heard on WGN Radio in Chicago (720 AM). On the show, Nick discusses popular culture, current events, all things Chicago.

The weekend producer of the show is Craig Collins who replaced Andy “The Count” Hermann. Mike “Broham” Stephen used to produce Nick’s Sunday night program.

Current radio segments

  • “Anti-Valentine’s Day”
  • “Blast-From-The-Past”
  • “Celebrity News/Gossip”
  • “Fly Jams Friday”- callers request the ‘fly’-est funk, R&B, and Motown clips.
  • “Free For All” – callers talk about topic of their choice
  • “Halloween Spooktacular Spectacular”
  • “The John and Troy Highlight Reel” – a review of clips of the wacky things said during the radio coverage of Chicago Blackhawks hockey games.
  • “Listener Voice Mails”- Nick would literally play his voice mails from listeners at the end of the show every Friday. This resulted in listeners doing “bits” for the voice mail, including one guy who did a dead-on Nick D. impersonation.
  • “Nick D. Show Songs”
  • “Nick D. Show Spies” – listeners submit clips of other shows on the station when they mention Nick’s show.

Nick Digilio Salary

Details of Nick’s salary have not been revealed but according to networthpost.org, Nick has a net worth of $15 Million.

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