It just seems strange to me that in a time when our city and communities need information during this crisis, the corporate owners of our once proud local stations are laying people off. Having grown up here and listened to iconic stations like WLS, WCFL, WLUP, WMET, WBBM, (having interned at WLS AM at one time), I know about the time and effort that these and other stations made to connect with their listeners and communities during the good times and not so good. I don't recall reading about layoffs during previous times of crisis and lord knows Chicago has had its share of crisis. I realize COVID is different in many ways but it is a crisis nonetheless. I cannot help but wonder if the corporate owners of these and other stations will use this to continue letting the hard working people at these stations go, piping in some voice from another part of the country that knows nothing about Chicago in an effort to beef up revenues and earnings. Terrestrial radio is so disappointing nowadays.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Salary reductions were announced Thursday for employees at the Chicago Tribune as parent company Tribune Publishing seeks to offset \"sharp declines\" in advertising revenue due to the coronavirus shutdown. Effective April 19, the company will permanently reduce the base pay of non-unionized staffers on a sliding scale of up to... 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\/25061"}],"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=25061"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25085,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25061\/revisions\/25085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}