{"id":30907,"date":"2021-09-21T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=30907"},"modified":"2021-09-21T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:00:45","slug":"jonathon-brandmeier-host-radio-hall-fame-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2021\/09\/21\/jonathon-brandmeier-host-radio-hall-fame-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathon Brandmeier to host Radio Hall of Fame ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Jonathon Brandmeier (Photo: Michael Kovac\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago radio legend Jonathon Brandmeier has been tapped to emcee the 2021 Radio Hall of Fame<\/a> induction ceremony, the Museum of Broadcast Communications<\/a> announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Brandmeier, who was inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame in 2018, will host this year\u2019s event October 28 at Wintrust Grand Banking Hall, 231 South LaSalle Street, in Chicago. (Here is the link for tickets.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Besides honoring eight new inductees, the event will recognize those from last year\u2019s class who were saluted in a virtual ceremony. An additional 33 \u201clegacy inductees\u201d also will be celebrated at the ceremony in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of commercial radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cJonathon Brandmeier is as talented on stage as he is behind the microphone,\u201d said Radio Hall of Fame chairman Kraig T. Kitchin. \u201cThis year\u2019s induction ceremony honors both our Class of 2021 as well as welcoming the 2020 inductees. We\u2019ll need great energy on stage and Johnny B. is the perfect host.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year's inductees are Alan \"Brother Wease\" Levin, Elliot Segal, Dan Patrick, Kim Komando, Javier Romero, Preston Elliot & Steve Morrison, Erica Farber and Bill Siemering.<\/p>\n

Last year's inductees were Cokie Roberts, Glenn Beck, Mark Thompson & Brian Phelps, Angie Martinez, Sway Calloway, Donnie Simpson and \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d (Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy).<\/p>\n

Among the 33 \u201clegacy inductees\u201d selected by the Radio Hall of Fame steering committee were two with close Chicago connections \u2014 Don Cornelius and E. Rodney Jones.<\/p>\n

The Radio Hall of Fame is administered by Chicago\u2019s Museum of Broadcast Communications, 360 North State Street.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Rondell Joseph:<\/strong> Zoraida [Sambolin] broke her silence [on Facebook], stating that she wanted to focus on her physical and mental health, which was the reason she took the last four months off.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago radio legend Jonathon Brandmeier has been tapped to emcee the 2021 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the Museum of Broadcast Communications announced Tuesday. Brandmeier, who was inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame in 2018, will host this year\u2019s event October 28 at Wintrust Grand Banking Hall, 231 South LaSalle Street, in Chicago.... 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\/30907"}],"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=30907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30911,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions\/30911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}