{"id":20276,"date":"2018-12-20T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=20276"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:13:59","slug":"score-renews-cubs-announcer-pat-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/12\/20\/score-renews-cubs-announcer-pat-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Score renews Cubs announcer Pat Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20277\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/12\/20\/score-renews-cubs-announcer-pat-hughes\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20277\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20277\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-1024x678.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-300x199.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-768x509.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-500x331.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-150x99.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-1200x795.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-400x265.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-800x530.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes-200x132.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pat-Hughes.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Pat Hughes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pat Hughes will remain in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/cubs\"> Chicago Cubs<\/a> broadcast booth for years to come, <a href=\"https:\/\/670thescore.radio.com\">WSCR 670-AM <\/a>announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, 63, has signed a multiyear extension with the Entercom sports\/talk station to continue as radio voice of the Cubs. His current deal expires December 31.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alongside color analyst Ron Coomer, Hughes will enter his 24th season this spring. The Score has been radio home of the Cubs since 2016.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19297\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2018\/09\/18\/robservations-can-new-co-host-pump-jam\/cubs-logo-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19297\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19297\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-19297\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo--150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo--200x200.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo--57x57.jpg 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo--72x72.jpg 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo--114x114.jpg 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo--144x144.jpg 144w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Cubs-logo-.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago Cubs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPat is the eyes and ears for so many Cubs fans both in Chicago and worldwide,\u201d Jimmy deCastro, senior vice president and market manager of Entercom Chicago, said in a statement. \u201cWe are thrilled he will continue as the radio voice for multiple years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was named the Illinois Sportscaster of the Year eight times \u2014 in 1996, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Crane Kenney, president of business operations for the Cubs, said: \u201cFor more than two decades, Pat has brought Cubs games to life for our fans as the radio voice of the Cubs. He has delivered countless monumental play-by-play calls from walk-off victories to no-hitters and of course, our 2016 World Series win. We look forward to Pat continuing to make history with our team and deliver many more memorable moments for our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Hughes will remain in the Chicago Cubs broadcast booth for years to come, WSCR 670-AM announced Thursday. Hughes, 63, has signed a multiyear extension with the Entercom sports\/talk station to continue as radio voice of the Cubs. His current deal expires December 31.<\/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\/20276"}],"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=20276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20281,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20276\/revisions\/20281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}