{"id":24388,"date":"2020-02-04T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=24388"},"modified":"2020-02-04T08:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:07:21","slug":"robservations-bill-leff-wendy-snyder-launch-podcast-cumulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/02\/04\/robservations-bill-leff-wendy-snyder-launch-podcast-cumulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder launch podcast for Cumulus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Bill Leff<\/strong> and Wendy Snyder,<\/strong> who were forced out<\/a> as midday co-hosts at Nexstar Media Group news\/talk WGN 720-AM<\/a> in November, just launched a podcast for Cumulus Media Chicago. There are no broadcast plans for \"The Bill and Wendy Show\"<\/a> at this time, but it's a foot in the door for the duo at WLS 890-AM,<\/a> the Cumulus news\/talk station. On Monday Leff couldn\u2019t resist taking a shot at WGN for its recently added Sunday morning showcase for Frank Sinatra<\/strong> tunes. \"Wendy and I will do a podcast with new episodes coming several times a week,\u201d Leff said. \u201cOur listeners talked us into it. It's going to be crazy fun. Then, on the weekends, we'll play Sinatra music. But not Frank Sinatra. Frank JUNIOR. Maybe some Nancy too. That's still up in the air. Sinatra. All day Sunday.\"<\/p>\n

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Rush Limbaugh<\/p><\/div>\n

Rush Limbaugh<\/strong> rocked the radio world Monday with news that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Limbaugh, 69, recently signed another four-year contract with iHeartMedia's Premiere Radio Networks to continue the talk show he has hosted since 1988. In Chicago, where Limbaugh airs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays on WLS 890-AM, it's still the top-rated show on the station. In the latest Nielsen Audio survey Limbaugh (and fellow conservative talker Chris Plante<\/strong>) tied for sixth among all listeners in middays. WLS morning host Erich Mancow Muller<\/strong> called Limbaugh's disclosure \"horrible news.\" WLS evening host John Howell<\/strong> posted a video wishing Limbaugh a speedy recovery on behalf of the station. \u201cI wish I didn\u2019t have to tell you this,\u201d Limbaugh told his listeners Monday. \u201cAnd I thought about not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, because I don\u2019t like making things about me.\"<\/p>\n

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Bob Stroud<\/p><\/div>\n

The incomparable Bob Stroud<\/strong> has a new time for his signature \u201cRock \u2019n Roll Roots\u201d<\/a> show. Well, an old<\/em> time actually. Hubbard Radio classic rock WDRV 97.1-FM<\/a> just moved the show back to its former hours \u2014 from 9 a.m. to noon Sundays (rebroadcast from 9 p.m. to midnight Sundays). Rob Cressman,<\/strong> program director of The Drive, said: \"I have received very consistent correspondences from 'The Stroud Crowd' on this topic since arriving here in 2016 and \u2013 in no uncertain terms \u2013 the show\u2019s fans made it clear: They would prefer a couple of extra hours of sleep on Sunday mornings before waking up to their favorite Sunday radio show. We are happy to return 'Rock \u2019n Roll Roots' to its original broadcast window every Sunday.\" During the week Stroud continues to host middays \u2014 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. \u2014 on The Drive.<\/p>\n

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Kyra Kyles<\/p><\/div>\n

Kyra Kyles,<\/strong>\u00a0prominent Chicago journalist and media executive, has moved to Oakland, California, to become CEO of YR Media,<\/a> a non-profit dedicated to fostering young journalists and musicians. A former Red Eye columnist and two-time president of the National Association of Black Journalists-Chicago chapter, Kyles most recently was media and storytelling program officer for the Field Foundation. Earlier she was editor-in-chief and senior vice president of digital editorial at Ebony Media Operations (formerly Johnson Publishing Co.), and a senior editor of Jet magazine. Calling her new mission \"a powerful platform for youth at the intersection of media, technology and music,\" Kyles said: \"YR Media will continue to learn, grow, and innovate \u2014 always centering the voices and creative vision of our young, diverse content creators in our Oakland headquarters and across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Bob Jordan:<\/strong> Congratulations, good buddy [Steve Sanders]! Come join me on the park bench feeding the pigeons. I need help solving the problems of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder, who were forced out as midday co-hosts at Nexstar Media Group news\/talk WGN 720-AM in November, just launched a podcast for Cumulus Media Chicago. There are no broadcast plans for \"The Bill and Wendy Show\" at this time, but it's a foot in the door... 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\/24388"}],"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=24388"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24398,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388\/revisions\/24398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}