{"id":25192,"date":"2020-04-21T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=25192"},"modified":"2020-04-21T06:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T11:19:05","slug":"robservations-radio-legend-tommy-edwards-publishes-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/04\/21\/robservations-radio-legend-tommy-edwards-publishes-memoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Radio legend Tommy Edwards publishes memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Tommy Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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I Grew Up Listening to You<\/p><\/div>\n

Tommy Edwards,<\/strong> the Chicago radio icon whose illustrious career spanned more than five decades, has just published his long-awaited memoirs. Available in paperback on Amazon, \"I Grew Up Listening to You\": Stories From Behind the Mic<\/a><\/em> includes tales of his adventures as a personality and program director at Top 40 powerhouse WLS 890-AM and as public-address announcer for the Chicago Bulls. Of course there's also a chapter devoted to Li\u2019l Tommy's legendary \"Animal Stories\" partnership with Larry Lujack.<\/strong> \"It has taken a couple of years to get it done, but I was able to do it the way I wanted,\" he said of the book, which also will be available on Kindle. (Here is the link.<\/a>) \"The term 'I Grew Up Listening to You' is something I\u2019ve heard from people all over the country for decades, and my book is about my life and my career. It starts with a kid with a daydream who was able to live that dream in cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.\" Edwards, who now lives in L.A., retired<\/a> from local radio in 2014 and from the Bulls announcing job in 2019.<\/p>\n

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

Tim Bannon,<\/strong> who accepted a buyout after 25 years at the Chicago Tribune and stepped down as sports editor in January, has been awarded an O\u2019Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism<\/a> at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Starting in August, he and two other fellows will work for nine months with student journalists at Marquette's Diederich College of Communication<\/a> on in-depth investigative projects. 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.<\/p>\n

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Bart Shore<\/p><\/div>\n

Although best known as one of Chicago radio's premier traffic reporters, Bart Shore<\/strong> will be celebrating a different broadcast milestone this weekend. He'll host the 500th episode of \"Bart Shore's Time Warp Radio,\"<\/a> his weekly flashback of music from the '50s '60s and '70s. (Here is the link.<\/a>) Included in the special will be calls from Shore's radio heroes and loyal listeners. Since 2009 the hourlong request show has been a genuine labor of love. \"It's all about me being able to have a radio show that I envision radio should sound like,\" Shore said.<\/p>\n

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The Last Dance<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago led the country in viewership for the premiere Sunday of \u201cThe Last Dance,\u201d <\/a>the highly anticipated ESPN documentary series on the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls championship season. The 12.1 rating here translated into about 394,000 households. Nationally the first two episodes averaged 6.1 million viewers on ESPN and ESPN2, making it the largest audience ever for documentary content on the network. The previous high for an original production was 3.6 million viewers for \u201cYou Don't Know Bo\u201d in 2012. The numbers do not reflect viewership for streaming platforms.<\/p>\n

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Ronald McDonald House Charities<\/p><\/div>\n

The radio stations and stars of iHeartMedia Chicago<\/a> are coming to the rescue of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.<\/a> With the cancellation of its annual fundraising gala due to the coronavirus shutdown, the group will host its first-ever Un-Gala Facebook event<\/a> from April 29 to May 2. (Here is the link.<\/a>) Supporting the event on the air will be Un-Gala ambassadors Christopher \"Fred\" Frederick<\/strong> of Top 40 WKSC 103.5-FM, Joe Soto<\/strong> of urban adult-contemporary WVAZ 102.7-FM, Lisa Dent<\/strong> of country WEBG 95.5-FM, Marcella Jones<\/strong> of gospel WGRB 1390-AM, Robin Rock<\/strong> of adult-contemporary WLIT 93.9-FM, and Frankie Robinson<\/strong> of urban contemporary WGCI 107.5-FM. Frederick also will emcee the culminating program on Facebook Live at 7 p.m. on May 2. \u201cRonald McDonald House provides incredible support for families who are persevering through extremely difficult situations,\u201d said Matt Scarano,<\/strong> president of iHeartMedia Chicago.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Sheila Mulcahey:<\/strong> Marci Braun deserves the programming post at US99. She'll put it back where it belongs.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Tommy Edwards, the Chicago radio icon whose illustrious career spanned more than five decades, has just published his long-awaited memoirs. Available in paperback on Amazon, \"I Grew Up Listening to You\": Stories From Behind the Mic includes tales of his adventures as a personality and program director at Top 40... 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\/25192"}],"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=25192"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25208,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions\/25208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}