{"id":14702,"date":"2017-06-27T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2017-06-27T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:14:09","slug":"robservations-new-edition-for-hall-of-famer-landecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/06\/27\/robservations-new-edition-for-hall-of-famer-landecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: New edition to update Hall of Famer Landecker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> John Records Landecker<\/p><\/div>\n

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

The acclaimed autobiography of radio legend John Records Landecker<\/strong> is being reissued to coincide with his induction<\/a> in the National Radio Hall of Fame. Records Truly Is My Middle Name,<\/a> <\/em>first published in 2013, is tentatively set for re-release October 23. As announced this week, Landecker will enter the Chicago-based shrine honoring radio\u2019s greatest stars on November 2. Branded as a limited \u201cRadio Hall of Fame edition,\u201d it will include new photos and Landecker\u2019s reflections since he quit WLS FM 94.7<\/a> in 2015, according to David Stern,<\/strong> co-founder and publisher of Eckhartz Press. \u201cThis is a perfect opportunity for us to publish all the stories John forgot to include in the first one,\u201d he said. Stern\u2019s partner in Eckhartz Press is Rick Kaempfer,<\/strong> who served as producer of Landecker\u2019s morning show on WJMK FM 104.3<\/a> and co-wrote the book.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Reader<\/p><\/div>\n

With \u201cWGN Morning News\u201d<\/a> named \u201cbest morning show,\u201d Lin Brehmer<\/strong> of WXRT FM 93.1 <\/a>named \u201cbest radio DJ,\u201d and Natalie Moore<\/strong> of WBEZ FM 91.5 <\/a>named \u201cbest journalist,\u201d quite a few defensible choices turned up among winners of the Best of Chicago 2017 poll published last week in the Chicago Reader.<\/a> But then there was the winner in the \u201cbest newspaper\u201d category: The Chicago Reader took the top honor itself. \u201cOnly in Chicago,\u201d I tweeted,<\/a> shaking my head. Replied <\/a>the Reader: \u201cDemocracy works.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wendy Snyder and Bill Leff<\/p><\/div>\n

Bill Leff<\/strong> and Wendy Snyder<\/strong> will continue to host middays on WGN AM 720<\/a>\u00a0through June of 2020. The duo just signed an early three-year extension with the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station, where they\u2019ve worked since 2013. Their on-air partnership goes back a lot farther \u2014 starting at WLUP FM 97.9<\/a> in 1994 and moving to\u00a0WKQX FM 101.1.<\/a> They're now on WGN from 10 a.m. to noon weekdays, with a \u201cbonus hour\u201d at wgnradio.com<\/a>\u00a0at noon.<\/p>\n

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Reese Marcusson<\/p><\/div>\n

Could there be a leadership vacuum forming at the parent company of public television WTTW-Channel 11 <\/a>and classical radio WFMT FM 98.7<\/a>? The announced retirement<\/a> last week of Dan Schmidt<\/strong> as president and CEO of Window to the World Communications Inc. (effective at year\u2019s end) closely followed the departure of the company\u2019s chief sales executive. No replacement has been named for Kathryn Thomas<\/strong> as senior vice president of sales and national sponsorships. Still onboard as chief operating officer and chief financial officer is Reese Marcusson,<\/strong> who joined WWCI as vice president\/controller in 1990.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Eig<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago journalist and author Jonathan Eig\u2019s<\/strong> biography of baseball legend Lou Gehrig<\/strong> is closer to becoming a movie.<\/a> With the blessing of the New York Yankees, plans are under way for filming The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth,<\/em> to be directed by Jay Russell.<\/strong> Casting will begin soon. Eig, whose bestselling biography of Gehrig won the 2005 Casey Award for best baseball book of the year, recently completed his latest \u2014 Ali: A Life,<\/em> the definitive biography of Muhammad Ali,<\/strong>\u00a0due out in October from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<\/p>\n

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John Records Landecker<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: The acclaimed autobiography of radio legend John Records Landecker is being reissued to coincide with his induction in the National Radio Hall of Fame. Records Truly Is My Middle Name, first published in 2013, is tentatively set for re-release October 23. As announced this week, Landecker will enter the Chicago-based... 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\/14702"}],"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=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14714,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions\/14714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}