{"id":6750,"date":"2015-02-12T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2015-02-12T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T00:51:00","slug":"far-and-away-erik-bradley-keeps-the-beat-for-b96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/02\/12\/far-and-away-erik-bradley-keeps-the-beat-for-b96\/","title":{"rendered":"Far and away, Erik Bradley keeps the beat for B96"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Erik Bradley<\/p><\/div>\n

The man who\u2019s been calling the musical shots at WBBM FM 96.3<\/a> for more than two decades soon will be calling them from a thousand miles away.<\/p>\n

Erik Bradley is considered so vital to the success of the CBS Radio Top 40 station that when he told his bosses he was moving to Dallas, they arranged to keep him on the job as music director and assistant program director.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anybody deserves it, Erik does,\u201d said B96 program director Todd Cavanah, who hired Bradley to succeed him when Cavanah was promoted to the top job in 1993. They\u2019ve been an inseparable team ever since.<\/p>\n

It took eight months to approve the plan for Bradley, 44, to continue working for B96 from CBS Radio offices in Dallas, where he and his partner built a new house. He\u2019ll return to Chicago occasionally to fill in when Cavanah is on vacation and to attend station events.<\/p>\n

Calling Bradley \u201cthe Michael Jordan of the industry,\u201d Cavanah said: \u201cHe\u2019s the best music director in the business. He\u2019s got the cell phones of every artist, every manager and every agent. He\u2019s the man.\u00a0We\u2019re a better company with Erik Bradley than without him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radio colleagues and music industry executives toasted Bradley at a party Thursday as he embarks on his new arrangement.\u00a0\u201cA 22-year employee who\u2019s at the top of his game deserves a shot like this,\u201d Cavanah added. \u201cThings are going so well at B96. Why wouldn\u2019t we keep that going?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, B96 ranked seventh overall with a 3.7 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 2,218,400. Among listeners between 18 and 34, the station ranks third with a 6.8 share and 837,800 weekly cume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man who\u2019s been calling the musical shots at WBBM FM 96.3 for more than two decades soon will be calling them from a thousand miles away. Erik Bradley is considered so vital to the success of the CBS Radio Top 40 station that when he told his bosses he was moving to Dallas, they... 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\/6750"}],"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=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}