{"id":12170,"date":"2016-08-22T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12170"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:39:46","slug":"robservations-daily-herald-cuts-downtown-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/08\/22\/robservations-daily-herald-cuts-downtown-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Daily Herald cuts downtown delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Daily<\/a>

<\/a> Daily Herald<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

\"Doug<\/a>

Doug Ray<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s about to become a lot harder to find a copy of the Daily Herald <\/a>in Chicago. Sources said the suburban newspaper will cease delivery in downtown Chicago as of this weekend. \u201cWe have been studying each single-copy location for sales and have found that the paid circulation in the city was trending lower, thus removing boxes and locations where only a few are sold each day,\u201d said Doug Ray,<\/strong> publisher and CEO of Daily Herald Media Group. \u201cWe believe\u00a0the Daily Herald e-edition and web site will be attractive to those wanting newspaper content online and with the web site immediacy of our suburban news content.\u201d The Daily Herald is owned by Paddock Publications, a privately held company based in Arlington Heights. Paddock recently acquired <\/a>12 daily and weekly newspapers in southern Illinois from GateHouse Media.<\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/a>

Mike Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n

Thirty years ago \u2014 on September 8, 1986 \u2014 \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> Show\u201d debuted from coast to coast. The chaotic first season of what would become the most successful syndicated program of all time is the subject of an insightful oral history<\/a> in the September issue of Chicago magazine.<\/a> Kudos to freelance writer and former Sun-Times reporter Mike Thomas,<\/strong> who chronicles that historic year with sharp observations from all of its principal players \u2014 including the star herself. \u201cWe were flying by the seat of our pantyhose,\u201d Winfrey tells Thomas. \u201cWe were doing shows that came out of a really pure space. We were doing what we thought was interesting and would connect to the audience. We were completely, absolutely so naive about the business of the business. The only strategy was, \u2018What do we think will work?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\"WHPK\"<\/a>

WHPK<\/p><\/div>\n

WHPK FM 88.5,<\/a> the community radio station of the University of Chicago, will be off the air until September 19 following the discovery of a bedbug at WHPK's studios at 5706 South University Avenue. Station officials disputed reports<\/a> of an infestation, insisting in a Facebook post<\/a> that \u201cat no single time was there ever more than one bedbug seen,\u201d adding: \u201cIn order to prevent an infestation, University of Chicago officials mandated that the station be temporarily closed and that hosts have their residences inspected and cleared for bedbugs.\u201d DNAInfo Chicago<\/a> reported seven DJs have quit, in part because they were told they would have to pay for the home checks \u2014 a requirement the university has since reversed.<\/p>\n

\"US<\/a>

US 99<\/p><\/div>\n

Two more syndicated programs have been dropped from WUSN FM 99.5<\/a> as CBS Radio continues to make over<\/a> the station as \u201cUS 99 Chicago\u2019s Hottest Country.\u201d Gone from the weekend lineup are \u201cServing Your Country,\u201d hosted by former morning co-host Ramblin\u2019 Ray Stevens,<\/strong> and \u201cThe Road,\u201d hosted by midday personality Drew Walker.<\/strong> They\u2019re both off the schedule along with the previously reported \u201cAmerican Country Countdown\u201d and \u201cCMT Country Countdown USA.\u201d \u201cWe are just re-evaluating everything on the radio station right now,\u201d said Jeff Kapugi,<\/strong> program director of US 99.<\/p>\n

\"Robert<\/a>

Robert K. Elder<\/p><\/div>\n

Admirers of Ernest Hemingway<\/strong> will be enthralled by a lavishly illustrated new book based on an array of treasures from the author\u2019s suburban Oak Park birthplace. Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park, <\/a><\/em>published by Kent State University Press, is available on amazon.com.<\/a> It\u2019s Chicago writer Robert K. Elder\u2019s<\/strong> seventh book, this one written in collaboration with Aaron Vetch<\/strong> and Mark Cirino.<\/strong> Elder bills it as \u201ca time capsule of sorts, featuring the author\u2019s never-before-seen teenage diaries, sketches, rare family photos, letters \u2014 even a newly-found love poem that reveals a previously unknown romance.\u201d It\u2019s all that and more. Elder is director of digital product development and strategy at Crain Communications.<\/p>\n

\"Brian<\/a>

Brian Hieggelke<\/p><\/div>\n

Brian Hieggelke,<\/strong> editor and publisher of the alternative weekly Newcity,<\/a> reports good news from the set of \u201cSignature Move,\u201d the crowdfunded<\/a> film he\u2019s producing around town. Principal photography is more than halfway completed<\/a> on the indie romantic comedy described as a \u201ccoming-of-age [story] of a Pakistani-Muslim-lesbian named Zaynab, who lives in Chicago taking care of her conservative-but-sweet TV-obsessed mother.\u201d The film is being documented in real time using Facebook Live <\/a>videos several times a day from the set. Locations include the South Asian neighborhood around Devon Avenue and the Mexican neighborhood of Little Village. Hieggelke said Chicagoans are welcome to visit the production.<\/p>\n

\"Herb<\/a>

Herb Kent<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago\u2019s incomparable Herb Kent,<\/strong> still going strong after 72 years in radio, was inducted Sunday in the National Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame<\/a> in Detroit. Leading the cheers for \u201cThe Cool Gent\u201d was Derrick Brown,<\/strong> director of urban programming for iHeartMedia Chicago and program director of urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7<\/a>.\u00a0Kent, 87, spins dusties from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays and from noon to 7 p.m. Sundays on V103. His career began in 1944 at age 16 and has spanned 11 radio stations. Kent was inducted in the National Radio Hall of Fame<\/a> in 1995.<\/p>\n

\"Howard<\/a>

Howard Grafman<\/p><\/div>\n

Howard Grafman,<\/strong> co-founder and former president of Chicago-based Century Broadcasting, died August 17 in Pacific Palisades, California, at 89. A Chicago native, Grafman said he\u2019d wanted to own a radio station ever since he was 10,<\/a> and served as station manager of WNUR FM 89.3 <\/a>at Northwestern University, where he graduated from the School of Speech. In 1964, with an investment of $20,000, he formed Century Broadcasting, which eventually grew to encompass stations in Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Denver and Tampa\/St. Petersburg. They included the former WFMF (now WSHE FM 100.3<\/a>), which Century acquired for $300,000 in 1966 and sold for $77 million 31 years later. Grafman left the company in 1988 and later formed Pacific Coast Communications. Services will be Tuesday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: It\u2019s about to become a lot harder to find a copy of the Daily Herald in Chicago. Sources said the suburban newspaper will cease delivery in downtown Chicago as of this weekend. \u201cWe have been studying each single-copy location for sales and have found that the paid circulation in the... 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\/12170"}],"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=12170"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12220,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12170\/revisions\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}