{"id":20970,"date":"2019-03-12T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=20970"},"modified":"2019-03-12T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:00:21","slug":"jennifer-keiper-returns-wbbm-newsradio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/03\/12\/jennifer-keiper-returns-wbbm-newsradio\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Keiper returns to WBBM Newsradio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Jennifer Keiper<\/p><\/div>\n

The newest voice on Chicago\u2019s all-news station is a familiar one: Jennifer Keiper has rejoined top-rated WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM<\/a> as a news anchor and reporter.<\/p>\n

The move comes just days after Keiper resigned from Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS 890-AM as afternoon news anchor and host of the weekly auto show \u201cDrive Chicago.\u201d Her replacement has not yet been named.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy to welcome a familiar face as the newest member of WBBM\u2019s reportorial staff,\u201d Ron Gleason, director of news and programming at the Entercom station, told staffers in an email Monday. \u201cNow she\u2019ll be a valued contributor as both a reporter and anchor here at WBBM.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keiper previously worked at WBBM Newsradio, first as a traffic reporter and later as a part-time anchor\/reporter. Following that, she began the first of two stints at WLS, with a six-year run as Midwest correspondent for Fox News Radio in between.<\/p>\n

A graduate of Oak Park River Forest High School, Northern Illinois University and Columbia College, Keiper began her career at WKRS 1220-AM and WXLC 102.3-FM in Waukegan before joining Entercom Top 40 WBBM 96.3-FM as a morning news producer. She later became morning news anchor, acting news director and community affairs director at B96.<\/p>\n

Her most recent run at WLS, starting in 2014, raised Keiper\u2019s profile as a featured contributor to Steve Dahl\u2019s afternoon show. In December Dahl and co-hosts Dag Juhlin and Brendan Greeley were cut<\/a>\u00a0as Cumulus Media completed the station's shift to conservative talk with syndicated host Ben Shapiro.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking with Jennifer for the last four years at WLS AM was a pleasure,\u201d Dahl said Monday. \u201cShe\u2019s a hard worker, and not only did a great job delivering the news, but was also a big contributor to the show. I\u2019m glad that she found a station commensurate with her talent. I\u2019m also relieved that working with Dag, Brendan and me didn\u2019t damage her reputation too badly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Dan Miller:<\/strong> Very encouraging to read that the Museum of Broadcast Communications is out of debt after 20 years of struggle. The museum is an under-appreciated and under-marketed attraction for tourists and scholars \u2014 and locals with an appreciation for artifacts and data. I hope that with the anchor of debt jettisoned, the museum can direct its efforts at creating a national brand.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newest voice on Chicago\u2019s all-news station is a familiar one: Jennifer Keiper has rejoined top-rated WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM as a news anchor and reporter. The move comes just days after Keiper resigned from Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS 890-AM as afternoon news anchor and host of the weekly auto show \u201cDrive Chicago.\u201d Her replacement has... 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\/20970"}],"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=20970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20975,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions\/20975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}