{"id":3851,"date":"2014-06-24T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2014-06-24T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:41:01","slug":"sportscaster-eric-brown-was-friend-to-everyone-he-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/06\/24\/sportscaster-eric-brown-was-friend-to-everyone-he-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportscaster Eric Brown was \u2018friend to everyone he met\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Eric<\/a>

<\/a> Eric Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

Co-workers and colleagues are remembering Chicago radio sportscaster Eric Brown as a consummate professional and a genuinely nice guy.<\/p>\n

A 26-year veteran of CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9,<\/a> Brown died of cancer Tuesday at 58. He had been on a leave of absence since last fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cEric was a reporting mainstay for the Bears successes in the 90\u2019s, for the Bulls six championships, and it gave him a lot of joy to report and talk about two Blackhawks Stanley Cup champions in 2010 and 2013,\u201d the station reported on its website.<\/a> \u201cBaseball was a day to day endeavor, and Eric tackled it without complaint, and with the easygoing effectiveness that was him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rod Zimmerman, senior vice president and market manager of CBS Radio Chicago, called Brown \u201cthe consummate professional, a polished broadcaster and a great teammate,\u201d adding: \u201cHe was always willing to go above and beyond to get the story. A friend to everyone he met. We will miss him very much on the air and in the office at Newsradio. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown, a native of Chicago\u2019s Chatham neighborhood and graduate of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, joined WBBM Newsradio in 1988 after nine years at WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. He began his career at WBAY-TV, the ABC affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Dave Eanet, sports director of Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN AM 720, headed the sports department at WBBM Newsradio when the station had an opening \u2014 and Brown was looking to come home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to find a Chicago guy, even if he was out of market, to cover sports in Chicago,\u201d Eanet recalled. \u201cI was in Plattevillle covering Bears camp, and watched him. I remember thinking, \u2018This guy knows his stuff,\u2019 and that's what I told my boss at the time, Chris Witting. Eric was solid as a reporter, dependable as they come, and very knowledgable. Above and beyond, one of the nicest people I will ever work with. Really tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Boden, reporter\/anchor for Comcast SportsNet Chicago and a longtime colleague, remembered<\/a> Brown as \u201ca kind, gentle, respectful man and friend who lived his life in a way in which he didn't deserve the hand he was dealt. . . . Eric always did what he had to do in radio, and if he didn't care for it, the objection was brief and he moved on. He was conscientious, hard-working, reliable, and got his stuff right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ron Gleason, director of news and programming at WBBM Newsradio, said: \u201cPeople here at WBBM loved Eric. He was incredibly positive during his ordeal.\u00a0 He was one of the nicest people I\u2019ve ever known. We will miss him greatly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Co-workers and colleagues are remembering Chicago radio sportscaster Eric Brown as a consummate professional and a genuinely nice guy. A 26-year veteran of CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9, Brown died of cancer Tuesday at 58. He had been on a leave of absence since last fall.<\/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\/3851"}],"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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}