There is not enough advertising revenue to pay the salaries. Radio audiences have evaporated over the years and many ad dollars are diverted to podcasting and digital media. Sports and news radio have a chance, because there is immediacy to their content. (Although when teams languish, so does their attractiveness on radio) Talk radio was commandeered to politics via Rush; he's dead and there is no heir apparent. Most people are tired of conflict, anyhow. Music is available on satellite or playlists. It is a tough industry these days. Treasure any station that is trying to enrich the local culture with vibrant, live content. Stop quibbling and programming. There are 35 stations in Chicago. If one bugs you, find another.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esteemed reporter Dan Mihalopoulos and editors Alex Keefe and Angela Rozas O\u2019Toole of Chicago Public Media WBEZ 91.5-FM won the coveted 2021 Watchdog Award Friday from the Chicago Headline Club. The three were cited for \u201cBuried Secrets,\u201d WBEZ\u2019s blockbuster investigative series exposing widespread sexual abuse of Chicago lifeguards.<\/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\/33407"}],"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=33407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33413,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions\/33413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}