{"id":4730,"date":"2014-09-01T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2014-09-01T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T02:45:49","slug":"wildcats-name-broadcast-booth-for-wgns-dave-eanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/09\/01\/wildcats-name-broadcast-booth-for-wgns-dave-eanet\/","title":{"rendered":"NU Wildcats name broadcast booth for WGN\u2019s Dave Eanet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dave<\/a>

<\/a> Dave Eanet<\/p><\/div>\n

Veteran Chicago sportscaster Dave Eanet kicked off his 25th season as the voice of Northwestern University Wildcat Football <\/a>with a surprise.<\/p>\n

During halftime of Saturday\u2019s home opener in Evanston, Eanet\u2019s alma mater christened the Ryan Field radio booth in his honor. In addition to unveiling a plaque designating \u201cThe Dave Eanet Broadcast Booth,\u201d they presented him a cake inscribed: \u201cCongratulations on 25 years, Mr. Cat!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got me good,\u201d Eanet later said. \u201cTotally caught off guard . . . but it was a terrific honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Eanet<\/a>Eanet, 59, has been the play-by-play voice of Wildcat Football since 1990 and Wildcat Basketball since 1996. Both teams air on Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN AM 720,<\/a> where Eanet works as sports director and sports anchor on Steve Cochran\u2019s morning show. He also appears as a sports anchor on Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington, D.C., native was still attending Northwestern\u2019s Medill School of Journalism when he first joined CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780 in 1975. After graduating, he signed on full-time with the station, where his two stints there were interrupted by a four-year run at WGN. With the shift of Wildcat Football broadcasts, Eanet returned to WGN in 1996.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Eanet was inducted as an honorary member of the Northwestern University Athletic Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

P.S. On Saturday Northwestern lost to California 31-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veteran Chicago sportscaster Dave Eanet kicked off his 25th season as the voice of Northwestern University Wildcat Football with a surprise. During halftime of Saturday\u2019s home opener in Evanston, Eanet\u2019s alma mater christened the Ryan Field radio booth in his honor. In addition to unveiling a plaque designating \u201cThe Dave Eanet Broadcast Booth,\u201d they presented... 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\/4730"}],"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=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}