{"id":15380,"date":"2017-09-05T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15380"},"modified":"2017-09-05T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:53:02","slug":"robservations-new-podcaster-dan-mcneil-comes-swinging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/09\/05\/robservations-new-podcaster-dan-mcneil-comes-swinging\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: New podcaster Dan McNeil comes out swinging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Dan McNeil<\/p><\/div>\n

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

\u201cDan McNeil:<\/strong> Unsupervised\u201d <\/a>premiered right on time today. The twice-weekly podcast for Chicago-based Radio Misfits Podcast Network<\/a> marked the return of the outspoken Chicago radio personality. McNeil minced no words in recounting his ill-fated tenure as morning host at Hubbard Radio classic rock WDRV FM 97.1. Calling his former program director at The Drive \u201cHamster Vomit,\u201d he said of Rob Cressman:<\/strong> \u201cHe had no major market experience. It was all flash over substance with this Rob guy. He looked like a hamster and made you want to vomit. . . . This was the first program director I neither respected nor liked.\u201d Cressman declined to comment.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Chiaverini and Val Warner<\/p><\/div>\n

The seventh season of \u201cWindy City Live\u201d<\/a> kicks off today on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/a> With Val Warner<\/strong> and Ryan Chiaverini<\/strong> returning as hosts, the local talk and entertainment show opens with performances by the top 10 hopefuls for \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d from the Chicago area. Wednesday\u2019s show will feature political guru David Axelrod<\/strong> and entrepreneur and producer Russell Simmons<\/strong> as guests. \u201cWindy City Live\u201d airs at 1 p.m. weekdays (with a rebroadcast at midnight).<\/p>\n

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WPNA<\/p><\/div>\n

Say cze\u015b\u0107<\/em> (\u201chello\u201d) to WPNA FM 103.1,<\/a> the new Polish American contemporary hit music station just launched by Polish National Alliance. It\u2019s the former WVIV, which Univision Radio sold to Alliance Radio in May for $5.5 million. Univision had been using the north suburban 103.1 FM to simulcast the Spanish contemporary \u201cLatino Mix\u201d format of southwest suburban WVIX FM 93.5. Alliance also broadcasts time-brokered ethnic programming on west suburban WPNA AM 1490.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jean Lotus<\/p><\/div>\n

Jean Lotus,<\/strong> an award-winning reporter and editor for Oak Park\u2019s Wednesday Journal, Pioneer Local and Chronicle Media who also operated an independent news site, is back to covering her native Colorado. She\u2019s been named editor of the just-launched Denver and northern Colorado edition of Patch.com. <\/a>The University of Chicago graduate also is a former reporter and night editor for Gannett\u2019s Journal & Courier in Lafayette, Indiana.<\/p>\n

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Bill Jurek<\/p><\/div>\n

Sad to report the passing of Bill Jurek,<\/strong> former staff announcer at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 and longtime contributor to WLIT FM 93.9 and many other Chicago radio stations. Jurek, who was 67, died Sunday after a long illness. He most recently was program manager of CRIS Radio <\/a>and host of \u201cThe Beacon,\u201d a syndicated public-affairs program on disability advocacy. After losing his vision in 1995, Jurek became a spokesman and mentor for people who are blind. \u201cBill was a great talent, a gifted speaker and a kind and good man,\u201d said Dominic Calabrese,<\/strong> senior vice president of the Chicago Lighthouse. <\/a>Funeral will be Saturday at All Saints Cemetery, 700 North River Road, Des Plaines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: \u201cDan McNeil: Unsupervised\u201d premiered right on time today. The twice-weekly podcast for Chicago-based Radio Misfits Podcast Network marked the return of the outspoken Chicago radio personality. McNeil minced no words in recounting his ill-fated tenure as morning host at Hubbard Radio classic rock WDRV FM 97.1. Calling his former program... 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\/15380"}],"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=15380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15391,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15380\/revisions\/15391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}