{"id":3560,"date":"2014-05-22T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T01:15:15","slug":"wgn-radio-we-didnt-kill-garry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/22\/wgn-radio-we-didnt-kill-garry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN Radio: \u2018We didn\u2019t kill Garry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3508\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/22\/wgn-radio-we-didnt-kill-garry-2\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3508\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3508\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Garry-Meier-150x150.png\" alt=\"Garry Meier\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Garry-Meier-150x150.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Garry-Meier-57x57.png 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Garry-Meier-72x72.png 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Garry-Meier-114x114.png 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Garry-Meier-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Garry Meier<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wgnradio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WGN AM 720<\/a>\u00a0took to social media Thursday to defend its reassignment of afternoon personality Garry Meier.<\/p>\n<p>The move came in response to complaints from listeners after the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station unveiled a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/05\/21\/new-wgn-lineup-adds-williams-subtracts-meier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new weekday program lineup<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday that shifts Meier off the 50,000-watt broadcast outlet and relegates him to to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wgn.fm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WGN.fm,<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cfreeform media\u201d online streaming portal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t kill Garry,\u201d WGN management wrote on its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wgnradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>page. \u201cHe\u2019s simply moving to a different, much better-furnished\/lit corner of WGN Radio.\u201d<img title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new WGN lineup, including the return of midday personality John Williams and the shift of Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder to afternoons, takes effect Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the graphic posted on WGN's Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3557\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"WGN Facebook\" width=\"780\" height=\"1009\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-791x1024.jpg 791w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-231x300.jpg 231w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-150x194.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-1200x1553.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-400x517.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-800x1035.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook-200x258.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/WGN-Facebook.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WGN AM 720\u00a0took to social media Thursday to defend its reassignment of afternoon personality Garry Meier. The move came in response to complaints from listeners after the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station unveiled a\u00a0new weekday program lineup\u00a0Wednesday that shifts Meier off the 50,000-watt broadcast outlet and relegates him to to\u00a0WGN.fm,\u00a0the \u201cfreeform media\u201d online streaming portal. \u201cWe... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/22\/wgn-radio-we-didnt-kill-garry-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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\/3560"}],"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=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22143,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/22143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}