{"id":15991,"date":"2017-11-14T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15991"},"modified":"2017-11-14T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:40:26","slug":"mancow-sues-new-boss-old-beefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/11\/14\/mancow-sues-new-boss-old-beefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancow sues new boss over old beefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Erich Mancow Muller<\/p><\/div>\n

In what could be a rerun of a legal battle he fought 10 years ago, Chicago radio personality Erich Mancow Muller is suing an old boss who\u2019s just come back as his new boss.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Cumulus Media hired<\/a> Marv Nyren as vice president and market manager, overseeing its four Chicago stations. They include classic rock WLUP FM 97.9,<\/a> where Muller has been hosting mornings since March 2015.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the same Marv Nyren who fired Muller in 2006 from WKQX FM 101.1, when Nyren was regional vice president and market manager for Emmis Communications, then owner of the alternative rock station.<\/p>\n

Muller sued Nyren and Emmis for $6 million in 2007 for allegedly making false and disparaging statements as part of a \"pattern of malicious acts\" against Muller. The suit ended with an undisclosed settlement in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Marv Nyren<\/p><\/div>\n

In a new lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, Muller now claims he has \u201csuffered emotionally and physically with the prospect that Nyren will continue his efforts to retaliate against him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest suit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages, recounts numerous incidents alleged in the 2007 complaint, including a claim that Nyren ordered a station employee to break into Muller\u2019s home and that he directed his sales staff to send raw meat \u2014 depicting Muller as \u201ca dead cow\u201d \u2014 to major advertisers and media buyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cNyren took steps to diminish Erich Muller\u2019s reputation and standing in the community and the radio industry to ensure that Erich Muller would not soon be hired by a competitor in the market,\u201d the suit claims. \u201cNyren\u2019s actions went far beyond normal business decisions and demonstrate an unusual obsession with punishing Erich Muller.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nyren did not respond to requests for comment on the suit, but was quoted in the Chicago Tribune<\/a> saying: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be working with Cumulus and Mancow. He\u2019s seeing some really great ratings, and I\u2019m looking forward to working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reached at home Tuesday, Muller said: \u201cI love Cumulus. I don\u2019t want any problems with anybody. There\u2019s Mancow the radio personality and there\u2019s Erich the husband and father. Marv Nyren took great sport in harassing me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muller\u2019s attorney, Michael Young, said the suit is intended to \u201cprevent the pattern of retaliation that has occurred in the past from continuing in the future. . . . Mancow is\u00a0extremely pleased with his position at Cumulus, he feels the show is as good as it\u2019s ever been, and he just loves his job. Then this [Nyren's hiring] happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s extremely troubled by the turn of events and he was very reluctant to take this step,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n

Nyren most recently was vice president of corporate sponsorship for Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5, a post he held since February 2016. His first day on the job at Cumulus was Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In what could be a rerun of a legal battle he fought 10 years ago, Chicago radio personality Erich Mancow Muller is suing an old boss who\u2019s just come back as his new boss. Earlier this month Cumulus Media hired Marv Nyren as vice president and market manager, overseeing its four Chicago stations. They include... 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\/15991"}],"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=15991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15997,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions\/15997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}