Having worked with Larry Harmon, I can confirm how much he was disliked. Harmon used the Boston Bozo show to syndicate to markets that didn't have their own Bozos. The film \"A Thousand Clowns,\" which came out in the mid 1960s, centered on a TV kiddie show host who hated kids. The character's name: \"Leo Herman.\" Not exactly coincidence. The relationship was especially acrimonious with WGN, which had to pay Harmon royalties for its own Bozo show since Larry owned the character which he bought from Capitol Records in the 1950s. Otherwise, the cast and producer - the legendary Al Hall - ignored Harmon, even changing the colors on Bozo's outfit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Jennifer Lyons, president and general manager of CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 and formerly one of Chicago's preeminent news executives, has been chosen as keynote speaker for the Chicago Journalists Association\u2019s 2021 virtual awards ceremony November 19. Lyons was named to the top job at CBS 2 in August, following her tenure... 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\/31463"}],"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=31463"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31849,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions\/31849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}