Dick Rakovan<\/p><\/div>\n
Dick Rakovan,<\/strong>\u00a0an affable statesman for the radio industry and former general manager of Chicago\u2019s WFYR, died May 16 in northwest suburban Crystal Lake. He was 83. Born in Elyria, Ohio, Rakovan began his career in radio sales at WKBW in Buffalo, New York, and worked for stations in New York, Detroit and Providence, Rhode Island, before joining WFYR under RKO Radio ownership in the 1980s. He later spent 20 years as senior vice president of the Radio Advertising Bureau. In 2016 Rakovan was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois Broadcasters Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Now that the transition of the Chicago Reader to nonprofit ownership has been finalized under the Reader Institute for Community Journalism, there's a change in editorial leadership at the 50-year-old alternative publication. Karen Hawkins\u00a0is leaving as co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the Reader to become story editor for The 19th, a... 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\/33461"}],"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=33461"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33492,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33461\/revisions\/33492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}