It was my privilege to be news director at WGN-AM-TV during Don Mellema's time there. He was one of the best writers on the staff and never balked when I had to change schedules, etc. Because of our contract with AFTRA at the time, I was unable to use him as a reporter, and having heard him over the years at WBBM, I came to regret that situation. He certainly was better at it than one or two of the reporters on the staff when I became news director. Apart from that, he was a real nice guy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Legendary Chicago broadcaster Bob Sirott, who\u2019s been a rare shining star in the ratings at WGN 720-AM, just extended his contract as morning host for two more years. \u201cBob has been an iconic voice in Chicago since 1973 and we\u2019re fortunate to have his voice and talent as we head... 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\/31797"}],"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=31797"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31808,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions\/31808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}