{"id":11354,"date":"2016-05-10T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:07:04","slug":"public-memorial-for-doug-banks-on-may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/05\/10\/public-memorial-for-doug-banks-on-may-21\/","title":{"rendered":"iHeartMedia to host public memorial for Doug Banks on May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Doug Banks<\/p><\/div>\n

Friends and colleagues of the late, great Doug Banks will honor the beloved radio and television personality at a memorial service in Bronzeville next week.<\/p>\n

\u201ciHeartMedia Chicago Remembers Doug Banks\u201d will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Harold Washington Cultural Center, 4701 South Martin Luther King Drive. It will be open to the public, and doors will open at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

Banks died <\/a>April 11 of complications from diabetes at 57. His funeral<\/a> was in Dallas, where he lived with his family.<\/p>\n

The nationally syndicated radio show Banks hosted was the top-rated afternoon program in Chicago on iHeartMedia urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7.<\/a> He previously hosted mornings and afternoons on iHeartMedia urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5.<\/a> He also was a longtime contributor to programming on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/a><\/p>\n

Billed as hosts of the public event are five of Banks\u2019s longtime co-workers \u2014 V103 personalities Joe Soto and Ramonski Luv, and former co-hosts Dede McGuire, Deedee Renee and Bonnie DeShong. They will be among speakers at the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friends and colleagues of the late, great Doug Banks will honor the beloved radio and television personality at a memorial service in Bronzeville next week. \u201ciHeartMedia Chicago Remembers Doug Banks\u201d will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Harold Washington Cultural Center, 4701 South Martin Luther King Drive. It will be... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11358,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions\/11358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}