{"id":2675,"date":"2014-03-12T21:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2014-03-12T21:13:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:13:56","slug":"broadcast-museum-to-salute-dick-cavett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/03\/12\/broadcast-museum-to-salute-dick-cavett\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast museum to salute Dick Cavett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kXCnKfdGOY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>)<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cavett, who brought intelligence and sophistication to television talk shows for more than 35 years, will be honored later this year by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museum.tv\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago\u2019s Museum of Broadcast Communications.<!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2676\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/03\/12\/broadcast-museum-to-salute-dick-cavett\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2676\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2676\" alt=\"Dick Cavett\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick-Cavett-230x300.png\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick-Cavett-230x300.png 230w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick-Cavett-150x195.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick-Cavett-400x520.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick-Cavett-200x260.png 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick-Cavett.png 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Dick Cavett<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/squareup.com\/market\/museum-of-broadcast-communications\/a-salute-to-dick-cavett\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cA Salute to Dick Cavett,\u201d<\/a> a $350-a-plate dinner on June 21, will be followed by a three-month video retrospective of Cavett\u2019s work at the museum, 360 North State Street.<\/p>\n<p>Best known as host of \u201cThe Dick Cavett Show,\u201d which ran from 1968 to 1975 on ABC and from 1977 to 1982 on PBS, the 77-year-old Cavett joins such television giants as Steve Allen, Mike Wallace, Hugh Downs, Betty White, Larry King, Bill Kurtis, and Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert among the museum\u2019s honorees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one would argue that Dick Cavett is not one of the most significant talk show hosts in television history,\u201d said Bruce DuMont, founder and president of the museum. \u201cHe brought wit and intellect to the discussion of issues in the \u201960s and \u201970s that others would not touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling Cavett \u201ca true icon who\u2019s synonymous with smart talk on television,\u201d DuMont added: \u201cI wish there were more of it on TV today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For ticket information see <a href=\"https:\/\/squareup.com\/market\/museum-of-broadcast-communications\/a-salute-to-dick-cavett\" target=\"_blank\">museum.tv.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>) Dick Cavett, who brought intelligence and sophistication to television talk shows for more than 35 years, will be honored later this year by Chicago\u2019s Museum of Broadcast Communications.<\/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\/2675"}],"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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}