{"id":13087,"date":"2017-01-01T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=13087"},"modified":"2017-01-01T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T13:13:08","slug":"chicago-media-preview-2017-oh-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/01\/01\/chicago-media-preview-2017-oh-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Media preview 2017: \u2018Oh, the humanity!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13088\" style=\"width: 806px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/01\/01\/chicago-media-preview-2017-oh-humanity\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13088\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13088\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937.jpg\" alt=\"The Hindenburg (1937)\" width=\"796\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937.jpg 796w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937-300x199.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937-768x510.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937-500x332.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937-150x100.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937-400x266.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-Hindenburg-1937-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> The Hindenburg (1937)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eight things to look for on the Chicago media beat in the coming year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicago\u2019s claim to fame as home of nationally syndicated daytime talk shows dates back to <strong>Phil Donahue<\/strong> in 1974. But that 43-year run will end in May when <strong>Steve Harvey<\/strong> pulls up stakes at NBC Tower and moves to Los Angeles to launch a new talk show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ProPublica Illinois, a Chicago-based offshoot of the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalism operation, will launch with a staff of 10 full-time reporters \u2014 and certainly no lack of corruption to unearth throughout the city and state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Twenty years after it began a syndicated jazz format out of San Francisco, WFMT Radio Network will relaunch and rebrand the WFMT Jazz Network from Chicago. With hosts <strong>John Hill, Neil Tesser, Dee Alexander<\/strong> and <strong>Dave Schwan,<\/strong> the new national jazz music network has high hopes of being heard here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicago\u2019s Museum of Broadcast Communications will celebrate its 30th anniversary with its first change of leadership at the top. Founder <strong>Bruce DuMont<\/strong> is expected to hand over the reins as president and CEO as soon as his successor is identified and hired by the museum's interim chairman, <strong>Larry Wert,<\/strong> and a search team headed by<strong> Ron Culp,<\/strong> veteran communications executive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>May 6 will mark the 80th anniversary of the explosion of the Hindenburg zeppelin in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The chilling eyewitness account of the disaster by<strong> Herb Morrison,<\/strong> a 31-year-old reporter for Chicago\u2019s WLS AM 890 \u2014 punctuated by his plaintive words: \u201cOh, the humanity!\u201d \u2014 heralded the coming of age for broadcast news.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nine TV veterans \u2014<strong> Mary Ann Ahern, Steve Baskerville, Jim Angio,<\/strong> the late <strong>Paul Hogan, Katie Carrillo-Majewski,<\/strong> the late <strong>Gene Siskel,<\/strong> the late <strong>Phil Walters,<\/strong> and the team of <strong>Ron Born<\/strong> and <strong>Sam Ventura<\/strong> \u2014 will be inducted in the Silver Circle of the Chicago\/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on April 28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cheryl Burton<\/strong> and <strong>Jennifer Graves<\/strong> will mark 25 years at ABC 7, <strong>Drew Horowitz<\/strong> will mark 25 years at WTMX FM 101.9 and its parent companies, and <strong>Charles Gross<\/strong> will mark 25 years at Newsweb Corp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Walter Jacobson,<\/strong> the beloved Chicago newsman known as \u201cSkippy,\u201d will turn 80 on July 28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight things to look for on the Chicago media beat in the coming year: Chicago\u2019s claim to fame as home of nationally syndicated daytime talk shows dates back to Phil Donahue in 1974. But that 43-year run will end in May when Steve Harvey pulls up stakes at NBC Tower and moves to Los Angeles... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/01\/01\/chicago-media-preview-2017-oh-humanity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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\/13087"}],"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=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13099,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions\/13099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}