{"id":5738,"date":"2014-11-19T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T12:02:10","slug":"dave-hoekstras-nocturnal-journal-joins-wgn-weekend-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/11\/19\/dave-hoekstras-nocturnal-journal-joins-wgn-weekend-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Hoekstra\u2019s \u2018Nocturnal Journal\u2019 joins WGN weekend lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Dave Hoekstra<\/p><\/div>\n

Dave Hoekstra, the Chicago media treasure and former Sun-Times<\/a> columnist and critic, is bringing his unique style and wide range of interests to weekends on WGN AM 720.<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting December 6, Hoekstra\u2019s \u201cNocturnal Journal\u201d will air for three weeks from 10 p.m. to midnight Saturdays on the Tribune Media news\/talk station. As of January 3, the show will move to its permanent slot from 9 to 11 p.m. Saturdays.<\/p>\n

Featuring interviews with in-studio guests and artists from all parts of Chicago, it\u2019s being billed as a \u201cLazy Susan revolving around the things Dave has turned us all on to \u2014 roots music, tunes off the beaten path, supper club sounds, backroads travel, tiki culture, world music, old diners, rhythm-and-blues and Merle Haggard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so thrilled about the show,\u201d said Todd Manley, vice president of content and programming at WGN. \u201cIt is just the sort of whimsy every Saturday night needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coinciding with the addition, WGN will reduce Nick Digilio\u2019s work load to five nights a week, as he requested. Digilio\u2019s show will continue to air from 2 to 5 a.m. Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n

For 29 years Hoekstra was a celebrated storyteller for the Sun-Times who covered everything from music, travel and food to sports, pop culture and history. Since he left the paper<\/a> last March he completed his latest book, The People\u2019s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences From the Civil Rights Era to Today.<\/em> With a foreword by Chaka Khan, it will published next fall by Chicago Review Press. He also has been blogging regularly at davehoekstra.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hoekstra credits Jonathon Brandmeier with encouraging him to do the show and talking it up to WGN bosses. \u201cThey\u2019re really giving me a lot of leeway,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re kind of using the template of all the things I did at the Sun-Times.\u00a0It\u2019s going to be a great challenge and a neat opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Hoekstra, the Chicago media treasure and former Sun-Times columnist and critic, is bringing his unique style and wide range of interests to weekends on WGN AM 720. Starting December 6, Hoekstra\u2019s \u201cNocturnal Journal\u201d will air for three weeks from 10 p.m. to midnight Saturdays on the Tribune Media news\/talk station. As of January 3,... 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\/5738"}],"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=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}