{"id":6141,"date":"2014-12-29T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2014-12-29T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T12:08:17","slug":"a-high-wire-year-for-chicago-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/29\/a-high-wire-year-for-chicago-media\/","title":{"rendered":"A high-wire year for Chicago media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6142\" style=\"width: 849px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/29\/a-high-wire-year-for-chicago-media\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6142\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6142\" alt=\"Nik Wallenda (November 2, 2014)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nik-Wallenda.png\" width=\"839\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nik-Wallenda.png 839w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nik-Wallenda-300x199.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nik-Wallenda-150x99.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nik-Wallenda-400x266.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nik-Wallenda-800x533.png 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nik-Wallenda-200x133.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Nik Wallenda (November 2, 2014)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Top Chicago media stories of 2014:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/08\/04\/a-new-day-at-tribune-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tribune Co. splits in two<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/10\/31\/tribune-buys-suburban-newspapers-from-sun-times-and-sun-times-buys-more-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sun-Times sells place in the <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/10\/31\/tribune-buys-suburban-newspapers-from-sun-times-and-sun-times-buys-more-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2019burbs to Tribune Publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/11\/20\/tribune-media-turning-off-the-game-87-7-fm-dropping-johnny-b-garry-meier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game over: The sudden death of FM sports\/talk station<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/06\/03\/why-wgn-radio-lost-the-cubs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs leave WGN Radio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/04\/25\/chicagoland-wasnt-on-the-level\/\" target=\"_blank\">City Hall orchestrates CNN\u2019s \u2018Chicagoland\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/12\/16\/abc-7-to-produce-7-p-m-newscast-for-the-u\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC 7 partners with The U<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/10\/22\/sun-times-reporter-mckinney-cites-chilling-effect-in-quitting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave McKinney quits Sun-Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/11\/10\/chicago-anchor-sues-telemundo-over-2013-firing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edna Schmidt sues Telemundo over drunken firing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/12\/15\/cheryl-scott-truly-thankful-for-abc-7-weather-role\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Scott! Chicago's hottest free agent changes channels<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/10\/07\/surprise-wls-to-hire-steve-dahl-for-afternoons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Dahl returns<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/05\/22\/wgn-radio-we-didnt-kill-garry-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Garry Meier disappears<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/09\/05\/roy-leonard-1931-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Leonard passes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/01\/06\/were-a-fun-couple\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Swiderski and Natalie Bomke: \u2018We\u2019re a fun couple\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And after 40 years as a Chicago reporter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/04\/02\/obama-protester-busts-into-jay-levine-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Levine still hard hitting<\/a> as ever:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2UbYF0ibSd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Chicago media stories of 2014:<\/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\/6141"}],"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=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6150,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}