Every time I'm back in Chicago, I'm deeply saddened by the sorry state of radio. What was once a truly great radio town has become like every other market with lame bits, faux outrage and forced laughter. But I happened to catch the first hour of the Steve Dahl Show on Monday (the day the Loop was sold) and it was nothing short of brilliant. The discussion of the Loop being sold and becoming a Christian radio station was smart, spontaneous and original. I laughed out loud more than once. I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud at anything on the radio but a politician. I read Steve getting a lot of grief in the comments section, but I don't think you guys appreciate what you've got. Especially with this line up. It was observational, subversive and a spot on reaction to an iconic event. It was great broadcasting. Something you never hear these days.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: It\u2019s probably fitting for Steve Dahl to be the last live voice we\u2019ll hear on The Loop. The Chicago broadcast legend and Radio Hall of Famer, who rose to stardom four decades ago on WLUP FM 97.9, will preside over an official send-off for the classic rock station today. It... 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\/17183"}],"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=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17198,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions\/17198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}