{"id":5268,"date":"2014-10-09T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2014-10-09T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T11:00:43","slug":"off-the-air-everywhere-mancow-taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/10\/09\/off-the-air-everywhere-mancow-taking-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the air everywhere, Mancow says he's \u2018taking a break\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Erich<\/a>

<\/a> Erich Mancow Muller<\/p><\/div>\n

Mancow has left the building. But will he be back?<\/p>\n

The cancellation of Erich Mancow Muller\u2019s morning show this week after two years on Fox-owned WPWR-Channel 50<\/a> marks the first time in nearly three decades that the former Chicago shock jock is off the air completely. No TV. No radio. Nothing.<\/p>\n

Muller, 48, said he was proud the TV show lasted two years and considers the decision to pull the plug a mutual one. \u201cI\u2019ve worked nonstop since 1985,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m taking a break.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conceived as a simulcast of his syndicated morning radio show, \u201cMancow\u201d aired from 6 to 8 a.m. weekdays on the MyNetworkTV affiliate and originated from Fox Chicago studios at 205 North Michigan Avenue. While his radio fortunes faded, ratings for Muller\u2019s television effort never materialized.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the latest move \u201cmay signal a bigger role for the controversial radio host on a larger TV stage,\u201d according to TV Spy, <\/a>which reported interest by Fox Television Stations in developing other projects with him. Muller declined to comment on what\u2019s next, except to say that he is considering \u201cvarious TV, radio and Internet offers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once among Chicago\u2019s highest paid and most visible radio personalities, Muller was a magnet for controversy and publicity starting at the former WRCX, then at WKQX FM 101.1 and later at WLS AM 890. More recently he sought to reinvent himself as a political commentator<\/a>\u00a0and suburban family man.<\/a><\/p>\n

Muller also appeared in \u201cGod, Guns and Automobiles,\u201d a History Channel reality series<\/a> with his auto dealer brother, Mark Muller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mancow has left the building. But will he be back? The cancellation of Erich Mancow Muller\u2019s morning show this week after two years on Fox-owned WPWR-Channel 50 marks the first time in nearly three decades that the former Chicago shock jock is off the air completely. No TV. No radio. Nothing.<\/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\/5268"}],"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=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}