{"id":6706,"date":"2015-02-09T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2015-02-09T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:53:03","slug":"mark-grote-on-cubs-radio-next-year-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/02\/09\/mark-grote-on-cubs-radio-next-year-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Grote on Cubs radio: \u2018Next year is here'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Mark Grote<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago sportscaster Mark Grote emerged from among hundreds of applicants Monday to win the coveted job of pre-game and post-game host for Cubs broadcasts on CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780.<\/a><\/p>\n

He\u2019ll join Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer as the third member of the radio team this spring.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a return to Newsradio 780 for Grote, who began there as a sports reporter and weekend sports anchor in 2002 before joining CBS Radio sports\/talk WSCR AM 670<\/a> in 2010. At the Score, he anchored news for Mike Mulligan and Brian Hanley\u2019s morning show, and co-hosted Saturday mornings with Steve Rosenbloom.<\/p>\n

Calling Grote \u201ca terrific talent,\u201d Ron Gleason, director of news and programming at Newsradio 780, said in statement Monday: \u201cHe\u2019s loaded with energy, has a great personality, and knows the game of baseball inside and out. We\u2019re excited to have him back on WBBM as a part of Cubs Radio 780.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement confirms a Chicago Tribune<\/a> report Friday by Ed Sherman that Grote would succeed Judd Sirott, as the Cubs shift from their longtime radio home on Tribune Media news\/talk WGN AM 720.<\/a> Sirott will continue at WGN where he\u2019s concentrating on his Blackhawks broadcast duties.<\/p>\n

\"I am absolutely thrilled to be on the ground floor of a new era of Chicago Cubs baseball on WBBM,\u201d said Grote, who grew up in west suburban Itasca and attended Illinois State University. \u201cI've been going to Cubs games since I was 6 years old, so I suppose you can say 'next year is here' for me.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago sportscaster Mark Grote emerged from among hundreds of applicants Monday to win the coveted job of pre-game and post-game host for Cubs broadcasts on CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780. He\u2019ll join Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer as the third member of the radio team this spring.<\/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\/6706"}],"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=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}