{"id":24354,"date":"2020-02-03T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=24354"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:00:13","slug":"robservations-steve-dahls-super-bowl-moment-can-summed-three-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/02\/03\/robservations-steve-dahls-super-bowl-moment-can-summed-three-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Steve Dahl\u2019s Super Bowl moment can be summed up in three words"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Bill Murray<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

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Steve Dahl<\/p><\/div>\n

In case you missed it, Chicago radio legend Steve Dahl<\/strong> made a brief cameo appearance in Jeep\u2019s Super Bowl commercial<\/a> starring Bill Murray<\/strong> Sunday night. Or at least Dahl\u2019s voice did. In the parody of the 1993 movie \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d filmed on location in Woodstock,<\/a> Dahl was the second voice on the radio heard uttering: \u201cIt\u2019s Groundhog Day!\u201d as Murray wakes up. (Here is the link.<\/a>) \u201cProud to be part of such a great commercial,\u201d Dahl said, promising to tell how it came about on his dahl.com podcast<\/a>\u00a0today. The version I heard is that Dahl had been asked to do the original voiceover in the movie but insisted on his partner, Garry Meier,<\/strong> being featured as well. The producers said no dice. A few months later, Steve & Garry broke up. Well, that\u2019s show biz!
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Rahm Emanuel<\/p><\/div>\n

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel<\/strong> no longer appears on the masthead of The Atlantic.<\/a> The magazine has dropped him as a contributing editor after a group of black staffers raised objections with editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg,<\/strong> according to the Washington Post<\/a>. (Here is the link.<\/a>) They cited his handling of the murder of Laquan McDonald<\/strong> by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke<\/strong> in 2014. \"What is plainly true is that Mr. Emanuel used the conditions of a financial settlement with a grieving family to cover up the details of murder of a black teenager by a white police officer,\" the staffers wrote. \"Mr. Emanuel\u2019s conduct . . . is the kind of behavior that news organizations of any ideological stripe expose rather than reward.\" Said Goldberg: \"Emanuel remains free to pitch us ideas for publication like any non-staff contributor.\" Emanuel joined the magazine last May at the same time he was named a political contributor to ABC News.<\/p>\n

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Tim Bannon<\/p><\/div>\n

Hail and farewell to Tim Bannon,<\/strong> who accepted a buyout after 25 years at the Chicago Tribune<\/a> and stepped down as sports editor Friday. A Chicago native and Indiana University graduate, Bannon spent six years at the Daily Herald and eight years at the Sun-Times before joining the Tribune as entertainment editor in 1995. He was named sports editor in 2009. \u201cThank you for fighting to keep this newsroom strong,\u201d Bannon told colleagues on his way out. What\u2019s next? \u201cI have a few ventures in the works, but nothing to share just yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Tim McGill<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, that was<\/em>\u00a0veteran Chicago meteorologist Tim McGill<\/strong> who turned up on CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> over the weekend. \"Just filling in wherever needed,\" he said of the gig, which follows his 27-year stint as weather forecaster at CLTV and WGN-Channel 9. (Nexstar Media Group pulled the plug on the cable news channel December 31.) \"Working for 'Chicago's Very Own' was a dream come true for a Chicagoan \u2014 or at least a suburban Chicagoan \u2014 like me,\" he said. McGill, who hold degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northern Illinois University, also teaches meteorology at Roosevelt University and Columbia College.<\/p>\n

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TVWeek<\/p><\/div>\n

It's the end of the line after 38 years for TVWeek, <\/a>the television industry news website. Founded by Crain Communication as Electronic Media in 1982, its first publisher and editorial director was Ron Alridge,<\/strong> the former Chicago Tribune TV critic. For years it was an indispensable and authoritative weekly trade publication. Renamed Television Week in 2003, it moved to online-only in 2009. \"When I first joined EM in 2000, as its editor, it was a bustling, vibrant publication with about 50 employees, equally split between the business side and the edit side,\"\u00a0<\/strong>publisher Chuck Ross<\/strong>\u00a0wrote in his sign-off announcement.<\/a> \"Unfortunately, marketplace conditions dictated a path for us that led to our becoming a publication that aggregated and linked to stories published by others, with little original reporting.\"<\/p>\n

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Fred Silverman<\/p><\/div>\n

Shame on the Chicago Tribune for an\u00a0unforgivably lazy obituary<\/a> Sunday on Fred Silverman,<\/strong> the legendary TV producer and executive who headed programming at the Big Three broadcast networks \u2014 CBS, ABC and NBC. \"A native of New York, Silverman started his post-college career in local television in Chicago and New York,\" is all the Tribune had to say (via the Associated Press) about Silverman's formative years here. No mention of his creation of \"Family Classics\" in 1962 at WGN-Channel 9 (then owned by the Tribune) or his discovery of wunderkind Brandon Tartikoff,<\/strong> whom he recruited from ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Silverman returned to Chicago as an independent producer in the early '90s to oversee Jonathon Brandmeier's<\/strong> short-lived syndicated variety show. Nicknamed \"The Man with the Golden Gut\" by Time magazine in 1977, Silverman died of cancer Thursday in Los Angeles at 82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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