{"id":21876,"date":"2019-05-29T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=21876"},"modified":"2019-05-29T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:00:07","slug":"santita-jackson-host-mornings-progressive-talk-wcpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/05\/29\/santita-jackson-host-mornings-progressive-talk-wcpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Santita Jackson to host mornings on progressive talk WCPT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Santita Jackson<\/p><\/div>\n

Santita Jackson, the Chicago radio personality and political commentator, has been hired as morning host at WCPT 820-AM,<\/a> the Newsweb Radio progressive talk station.<\/p>\n

Jackson, eldest daughter of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, will succeed Bill Press, who's\u00a0stepping down<\/a>\u00a0from the syndicated program he has hosted for 14 years. Jackson\u2019s show, airing from 6 to 8 a.m. weekdays, will debut Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSantita has a dynamic, engaging personality and she will connect well with our listeners,\u201d Mark Pinski, general manager of WCPT, said in a statement. \u201cWith Santita live and local in the morning, followed by Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Joan Esposito and Rick Ungar, this is the best Monday-through-Friday progressive lineup in WCPT history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson hosted middays on Midway Broadcasting urban news\/talk WVON 1690-AM for more than five years before joining Fox News as a contributing political commentator in 2012. She continues as executive producer of \u201cKeep Hope Alive,\u201d<\/a> a syndicated radio show she co-hosts with her father for iHeartMedia\u2019s Premiere Networks.<\/p>\n

According to her bio, Jackson attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago with Michelle Obama, and served as Obama's maid of honor at her 1992 wedding to Barack Obama. After graduating from Howard University, Jackson pursued a career in music, touring as a backup singer for Roberta Flack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited and thrilled to be joining the WCPT team, especially at this time, as the progressive voice in America seeks more platforms to serve and express the needs of the people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santita Jackson, the Chicago radio personality and political commentator, has been hired as morning host at WCPT 820-AM, the Newsweb Radio progressive talk station. Jackson, eldest daughter of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, will succeed Bill Press, who's\u00a0stepping down\u00a0from the syndicated program he has hosted for 14 years. Jackson\u2019s show, airing from 6 to 8 a.m.... 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\/21876"}],"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=21876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21881,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876\/revisions\/21881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}