Hey John, are you sure about this? I mean, you wanna give it all up after only 17,520 days of gathering and delivering the news?Working alongside Don and Roma, Big John and Mancow? Doing live spot news on Channel 32? Breaking news on WBBM and WMAQ Radio? That stint in Kansas City \u2014 and those magical Saturday afternoons with Aaron Freeman on BEZ\u2019s Metropolis? It\u2019s been a great honor, Mr. Dempsey, to have known you through it all. You\u2019re the single most versatile broadcaster I know. Can\u2019t wait to see how you reinvent yourself after a well-deserved break. Meanwhile, thanks for a big basket of memories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: It's been nearly four decades since the late, great Eddie \"Chicago Ed\" Schwartz,\u00a0king of late-night radio in Chicago, launched his annual Good Neighbor Food Drive on WGN 720-AM. Twenty-five years ago it morphed into the \"Good Neighbor Radiothon\" on Entercom all-news WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM to raise money for The Salvation... 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\/27734"}],"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=27734"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27746,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734\/revisions\/27746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}