{"id":3763,"date":"2014-06-15T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2014-06-15T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T00:18:59","slug":"chicago-welcomed-radios-most-iconic-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/06\/15\/chicago-welcomed-radios-most-iconic-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago welcomed \u2018radio\u2019s most iconic voice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KNc9uxZyaE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Broadcast legend Casey Kasem, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/2014\/06\/15\/casey-kasem-king-of-the-top-40-countdown-dead\/20912846\/\" target=\"_blank\">died Sunday<\/a> at 82, was no stranger to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was his voice familiar to generations of listeners to \u201cAmerican Top 40\u201d and viewers of \u201cScooby-Doo,\u201d but Kasem was a frequent visitor to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohof.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Radio Hall of Fame<\/a> here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Casey-Kasem.png\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/06\/15\/chicago-welcomed-radios-most-iconic-voice\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3764\" alt=\"Casey Kasem\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Casey-Kasem-213x300.png\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/a>In 1992 he was among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohof.org\/casey_kasem.htm\" target=\"_blank\">first class <\/a>of inductees to the National Radio Hall of Fame. He went on to host the induction ceremony broadcast from the Chicago Cultural Center for five consecutive years \u2014 from 1996 through 2000 \u2014 longer than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce DuMont, founder and president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museum.tv\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Broadcast Communications, <\/a>credited Kasem with helping put the Radio Hall of Fame on the map and giving it national respectability. \u201cHe showed up for rehearsals and wanted to be perfect,\u201d he recalled Sunday. \u201cA true pro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added DuMont: \"Along with Paul Harvey, Casey Kasem was radio's most iconic voice for several generations of listeners.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Radio Hall of Fame website features a tribute to Kasem's career at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohof.org\/casey_kasem.htm\" target=\"_blank\">radiohof.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast legend Casey Kasem, who died Sunday at 82, was no stranger to Chicago. Not only was his voice familiar to generations of listeners to \u201cAmerican Top 40\u201d and viewers of \u201cScooby-Doo,\u201d but Kasem was a frequent visitor to the National Radio Hall of Fame here.<\/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\/3763"}],"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=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}