I am glad you called out the problematic centennial celebration of WGN Radio. The call letters have changed, ownership changed, frequency changed . . . perhaps the only thread that exists from 1922 is the original license paperwork? For all practical, reasonable purposes, the station anniversary date was June 1, 1924, as you report here. It strikes me odd the current owners who appear to have no recognition at all of the great legacy of the station and the special relationship with its audience now suddenly are feeling nostalgic. The legacy Nexstar acquired was not built on syndicated programming, reruns and clip shows. It was built on live and local 24\/7 programming from a top-notch staff of broadcasters. Nexstar betrays that legacy and their current audience with many of the programming decisions since they took over and now want to rewrite history for marketing purposes. They have no shame.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Mary Ellen Podmolik, former business editor of the Chicago Tribune, has been hired as editor of Modern Healthcare, the Chicago-based magazine and digital site published by Crain Communications. \u201cI\u2019m excited to join Modern Healthcare and help position it for the future by working with a team dedicated to empowering industry... 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\/32570"}],"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=32570"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32589,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32570\/revisions\/32589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}