I hope this is a professional development opportunity for Mary [Sandberg Boyle] and Sean [Compton] over at WGN Radio, because I don't think the ratings slide is over yet. [Steve] Cochran had faults, but it is clear everybody in management underestimated how well the dynamics of his show worked. He had interesting segments, guests, and admit it, he was funny. It was something to look forward to because everybody got on so well together. Bob Sirott deserves all the respect for the incredible man he is, but I don't think this was his moment. The morning show is just so dry now. Let's not forget pulling Bill and Wendy when they were your only other show pulling ratings. Who cares that they do something different? People liked it. Bill [Leff] and Wendy [Synder] were great with your listeners and their show prevented the lineup being so repetitive between the Cochran Show and John Williams.<\/em><\/p>\nAnna Davlantes is doing a great job and she deserved a chance, so I'll give them credit on that. Pulling [Steve] Bertrand off the Business Lunch is another decision that makes me cringe, though. Ji [Suk Yi] was doing so well with Cochran, filling in that spot Mary left when she got promoted. Why not keep it when it was working? When I heard Ji needing explanations about basic economic principles (I'm a scientist for reference), I had to switch off. I've been on WBEZ for the most part now.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: North Shore native Justin Breen, the former DNAinfo Chicago senior editor who launched his own public relations and communications business in 2017, just turned author. His first book \u2014 Epic Business: 30 Secrets to Build Your Business Exponentially and Give You the Freedom to Live the Life You Want! \u2014... 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\/24223"}],"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=24223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24234,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions\/24234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}