{"id":24096,"date":"2020-01-14T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=24096"},"modified":"2020-01-14T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:22:16","slug":"story-prompts-wgn-radio-cut-ties-crains-chicago-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/01\/14\/story-prompts-wgn-radio-cut-ties-crains-chicago-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Story prompts WGN Radio to cut ties with Crain\u2019s Chicago Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> WGN Radio<\/p><\/div>\n

WGN 720-AM<\/a> abruptly severed its longstanding partnership with Crain\u2019s Chicago Business<\/a> Monday over a story that speculated on a possible sale<\/a> of the Nexstar Media Group news\/talk station.<\/p>\n

As a result of the move, Crain\u2019s editors, reporters and other contributors no longer will appear on any WGN Radio programs, and the station no longer will host the Monday-through-Thursday business news podcast \u201cCrain\u2019s Daily Gist\u201d on its website. A WGN microphone was removed from Crain\u2019s newsroom Monday, sources said.<\/p>\n

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Crain's Chicago Business<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite denials from Nexstar executives of any plans to sell the company\u2019s stand-alone radio property, the Crain\u2019s story<\/a> by Dalton Barker quoted industry analysts suggesting that recent changes in personnel and programming were \u201cpotentially positioning the 95-year-old Chicago station for another sale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nexstar acquired WGN Radio in September as part of its $6.4 billion takeover of parent company Tribune Media. It inherited a nearly decade-old cross-promotional arrangement with Crain\u2019s that included regular appearances on the noontime \u201cWintrust Business Lunch\u201d by real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin and director of digital strategy and custom media Frank Sennett, among other prominent staffers.<\/p>\n

Amy Guth, who anchors the \"Crain's Daily Gist\" podcast, will continue to appear occasionally as a fill-in host and contributor to WGN Radio.<\/p>\n

A Nexstar spokesman confirmed that WGN Radio had \"terminated its relationship\" with Crain\u2019s but declined further comment.<\/p>\n

While some insiders were surprised by what they saw as an overreaction by WGN Radio, Jim Kirk, publisher and executive editor of Crain\u2019s, expressed regret about the move.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe content partnership between WGN and Crain\u2019s has been longstanding and productive,\u201d Kirk said. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that WGN has chosen to end it and we would hope they would reconsider. If not, we wish them nothing but the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Rick Rosenbaum:<\/strong> Another nail in the coffin of a once great newspaper. Notice that the important dispatches are from The Washington Post, AP, and lately The New York Times. No Tribune reporters to give a local insight to the news as was done back in the day. I enjoy the paper now mostly for the opinion columnists and arts critics. Used to enjoy the sports section but that too has been gutted. Can only cut so much before it becomes completely obsolete.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WGN 720-AM abruptly severed its longstanding partnership with Crain\u2019s Chicago Business Monday over a story that speculated on a possible sale of the Nexstar Media Group news\/talk station. As a result of the move, Crain\u2019s editors, reporters and other contributors no longer will appear on any WGN Radio programs, and the station no longer will... 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\/24096"}],"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=24096"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24110,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096\/revisions\/24110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}