{"id":5574,"date":"2014-11-03T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2014-11-04T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:47:42","slug":"roe-conn-plotting-radio-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/11\/03\/roe-conn-plotting-radio-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Roe Conn plotting radio comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Roe<\/a>

<\/a> Roe Conn<\/p><\/div>\n

On Steve Dahl\u2019s first day back<\/a> as afternoon personality at WLS AM 890 <\/a>Monday, his predecessor assured the world that he\u2019s alive and well \u2014 and will be heard from again.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike all transitions, this one has its challenges,\u201d Roe Conn told his fans on Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0adding: \u201cI plan on being back in your ears soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conn, 50, ended a 25-year run on WLS October 7 after the Cumulus Media news\/talk station chose not to renew his contract or that of afternoon co-host Richard Roeper. \u201cThere\u2019s no question that it\u2019s jarring,\u201d Conn told the Chicago Tribune the next day. \u201cThe truth in radio is you never know the last time you\u2019re going to be on the air, because they don\u2019t let you say goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reached Monday, Conn declined to comment on whatever network or local options he's pursuing, but left no doubt that he sees radio in his future. Speculation has centered on WGN AM 720, but sources at the Tribune Media news\/talk station said there\u2019s been no job offer so far.<\/p>\n

Reacting to\u00a0criticism<\/a> from Ron Magers, the veteran WLS-Channel 7 news anchor and daily contributor to \u201cRoe & Roeper,\u201d Dahl acknowledged Monday that he could have handled things differently with Conn. \"I like Roe a lot, and maybe I did owe him a call,\" Dahl told Magers, who was a guest on his first show. \"I'm still afraid to call him.\"<\/p>\n

While Conn plots his next move, he continues to appear on ABC 7\u2019s \u201cWindy City Live,\u201d where he\u2019s been a regular contributor since the show\u2019s inception in 2011. He also turned up on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 Sunday with political editor Mike Flannery. Conn will be part of Fox 32\u2019s primary election coverage Tuesday night as well.<\/p>\n

Here is the text of Conn\u2019s Facebook message Monday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks again to everyone for your incredibly kind words. It has been the honor of my life to be a part of your lives for the past two and a half decades. Like all transitions, this one has its challenges, but please know, I've been able to read all of your comments and will answer as many as I can.<\/em><\/p>\n

I'm not able to answer the most dominant question, \"what's next,\" quite yet. But I promise, you will be the first to know when that decision is finally made. I plan on being back in your ears soon, but in the meantime you can catch me mornings on \u201cWindy City Live\u201d on ABC 7 and tomorrow night I'll be on Fox 32's election night coverage. Fasten your seatbelts, I have a lot to say!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Steve Dahl\u2019s first day back as afternoon personality at WLS AM 890 Monday, his predecessor assured the world that he\u2019s alive and well \u2014 and will be heard from again. \u201cLike all transitions, this one has its challenges,\u201d Roe Conn told his fans on Facebook,\u00a0adding: \u201cI plan on being back in your ears soon.\u201d<\/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\/5574"}],"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=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}