{"id":21762,"date":"2019-05-20T06:41:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2019-05-20T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:21:43","slug":"progressive-talk-wcpt-lose-syndicated-morning-host-bill-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/05\/20\/progressive-talk-wcpt-lose-syndicated-morning-host-bill-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive talk WCPT to lose syndicated morning host Bill Press"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Bill Press<\/p><\/div>\n

Another liberal talk show host is about to leave WCPT 820-AM,<\/a> the Newsweb Radio progressive talk station.<\/p>\n

Bill Press has announced he's stepping down from the syndicated program he has hosted for 14 years, effective May 31. His show airs on WCPT from 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n

His departure from the station follows that of afternoon host Ben Joravsky, who was cut<\/a> in December, and syndicated evening host Norman Goldman, who retired<\/a> in February. They were replaced by Joan Esposito and Rick Ungar, respectively.<\/p>\n

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WCPT 820<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bill has enjoyed a remarkable, award-winning career as a political commentator, media insider and author,\u201d said Mark Pinski, general manager of Newsweb Radio. \u201cOur listeners will miss him, but they should look forward to connecting with our next morning drive host. We are excited and our listeners will be too.\"<\/p>\n

Pinski said a replacement for Press is expected to be announced later this week.<\/p>\n

Press, 79, a former CNN and MSNBC commentator and author of seven books, will launch a podcast in June with a focus on the 2020 presidential election, according to published reports.<\/p>\n

\"We\u2019ve had a great 14 year run of daily shows, but it\u2019s time to transition,\" Press tweeted. <\/a>\"The last daily show will be May 31, but don\u2019t worry! My voice will still front and center as we enter the 2020 election. Big news coming soon!\"<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Michael Gay:<\/strong> Thanks for sorting out exactly where this pardon among thieves comes from. What an absolute disgrace.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another liberal talk show host is about to leave WCPT 820-AM, the Newsweb Radio progressive talk station. Bill Press has announced he's stepping down from the syndicated program he has hosted for 14 years, effective May 31. His show airs on WCPT from 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday.<\/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\/21762"}],"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=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21767,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions\/21767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}