{"id":17613,"date":"2018-04-09T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=17613"},"modified":"2018-04-09T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:31:10","slug":"robservations-ed-lover-excited-share-love-music-104-3-jams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/04\/09\/robservations-ed-lover-excited-share-love-music-104-3-jams\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Ed Lover \u2018excited to share love for music\u2019 on 104.3 Jams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Ed Lover<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Jennifer Farina<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s official: Ed Lover,<\/strong> one of the original hosts of \u201cYo! MTV Raps,\u201d will debut Thursday as morning personality on WBMX FM 104.3, <\/a>the Entercom classic hip-hop and R&B station. Lover, whose real name is James Roberts,<\/strong> also hosted Sirius XM\u2019s Backspin classic hip-hop channel, and most recently worked in Atlanta for Radio One and Reach Media syndication. \u201cHold on to your britches, ladies and gentleman, \u2019cuz \u2018The Ed Lover Morning Show\u2019 will be the premier morning destination for Chicagoans\u2019 daily dose of nostalgic throwbacks and so much more,\u201d he wrote in a note to colleagues. \u201cAll I do is great radio and I am so excited to share my love for music with the great people of Chicago.\u201d Lover\u2019s co-host from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays will be Jennifer \u201cJen BT\u201d Farina,<\/strong> former programming assistant at iHeartMedia Chicago and assistant program director at the former WNUA. The Chicago native most recently worked as executive assistant to the CEO and president of CEDA, the non-profit community action agency of Cook County. Airing without on-air talent since its inception in November, mornings on 104.3 Jams currently rank fourth among listeners between 18 and 34, according to Nielsen Audio.<\/p>\n

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WBBM Newsradio<\/p><\/div>\n

With revenue estimated at $40 million, the Entercom all-news combo of WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9 <\/a>was the country\u2019s ninth highest-billing radio station in 2017, according to BIA Advisory Services.<\/a> It again was the only Chicago station to make the top 10. But it was down 11 percent from the previous year when WBBM Newsradio ranked fifth nationally with billing of $45 million. Hubbard Radio's WTOP in Washington, D.C., retained the top spot with $67.8 million.<\/p>\n

Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32<\/a> appears to be taking aim at WGN-Channel 9 with a new slogan branding news anchors Corey McPherrin<\/strong> and Dawn Hasbrouck<\/strong> \"Chicago's Home Grown News Team.\u201d With Tribune Media poised to be taken over by Sinclair Broadcast Group, WGN\u2019s status as \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d may be in jeopardy. For the record, McPherrin grew up in south suburban Markham and Hasbrouck grew up on the South Side. At WGN, Chicagoan Micah Materre<\/strong>\u00a0soon will be joined by co-anchor Joe Donlon,<\/strong> a St. Louis native who spent the last 21 years in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

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Fox 32 News<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dane Placko<\/p><\/div>\n

Dane Placko,<\/strong> the veteran investigative reporter for Fox 32, has a harrowing vacation story to tell. While in London with his daughters over spring break he suffered a detached retina and lost vision in his left eye. After undergoing emergency surgery, he was warned not to fly home for at least four weeks or the gas jelly holding his retina in place could explode. \u201cI went to London and became a middle-aged pirate,\u201d Placko told Facebook <\/a>friends. \u201cHow to describe the experience? I felt like the astronaut rushing through the tunnel of psychedelic lights in the movie \u20182001.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Goli Sheikholeslami<\/p><\/div>\n

Goli Sheikholeslami,<\/strong> CEO of Chicago Public Media,<\/a> has been appointed to the board of Patreon,<\/a> a membership platform that connects content creators with their biggest fans and enables them to become patrons of their favorite creators. Launched by YouTube musician Jack Conte<\/strong> in 2013, the platform now benefits more than 50,000 creators. \u201cPatreon\u2019s model of connecting content creators with new fans is a dynamic way of building a community of digital consumers for the next generation,\u201d Sheikholeslami said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Joe McConnell<\/p><\/div>\n

Longtime play-by-play announcer Joe McConnell,<\/strong> whose illustrious career included notable runs in Chicago as the voice of White Sox baseball and Bears football, died after a long illness Sunday in Indianapolis at 79. McConnell also broadcast Northwestern football, and DePaul, Illinois, Notre Dame and Northwestern men's basketball. Before retiring in 2009, he served 15 seasons announcing Purdue football. In 1981 he was named lllinois Sportscaster of the Year. \u201cJoe was one of the best in the business,\u201d tweeted <\/a>sports reporter Cheryl Raye Stout.<\/strong> \u201cA pro\u2019s pro.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jerry Minkkinen<\/p><\/div>\n

The working men and women of Chicago journalism lost a passionately devoted champion with the death of Jerry Minkkinen,<\/strong> who served 32 years as executive director of the Chicago News Guild. <\/a>Minkinnen, 74, died Friday at his home in Hoffman Estates after a recurrence of esophageal cancer. \u201cJerry was a fierce advocate for all Guild members,\u201d said Craig Rosenbaum,<\/strong> who succeeded Minkkinen as executive director in 2009. \u201cHe was my mentor, and I am indebted with gratitude for what he taught me.\u201d Minkkinen most recently was executive director emeritus.<\/p>\n

What happens when a newspaper cuts back on editors? In Saturday\u2019s Chicago Tribune<\/a> a statue of Bobby Hull<\/strong> is misidentified as Stan Mikita:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chicago Tribune, April 7<\/p><\/div>\n

And in Saturday\u2019s Sun-Times, <\/a>the headline of a story about Chicago\u2019s Water Management Department calls it \u201cWaste Management\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Sun-Times, April 7<\/p><\/div>\n

Saturday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Burt Levy:<\/strong> Perhaps it's God\u2019s way of letting \"management\" know that maybe bringing [Dan] McNeil back wasn't the best idea or very well thought out.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: It\u2019s official: Ed Lover, one of the original hosts of \u201cYo! MTV Raps,\u201d will debut Thursday as morning personality on WBMX FM 104.3, the Entercom classic hip-hop and R&B station. Lover, whose real name is James Roberts, also hosted Sirius XM\u2019s Backspin classic hip-hop channel, and most recently worked in... 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\/17613"}],"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=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17634,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions\/17634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}