Museum of Broadcast Communications,<\/a> according to Bruce DuMont, founder and president of the museum.<\/p>\nLaura Levitt-Gamis, adjunct faculty member in the television department of Columbia College Chicago, called MacDonald a lifelong mentor. \u201cI\u2019ve been teaching television history and studies at Columbia College for over 25 years and it is all because of the guidance of Fred,\u201d Levitt-Gamis said. \u201cOther than my parents, Fred had the most impact on my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
MacDonald is survived by his wife of 42 years, Leslie Waldrop MacDonald. No services were held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
J. Fred MacDonald, one of Chicago\u2019s preeminent broadcast historians, is being remembered as an influential teacher, mentor and film archivist. A professor of history for 27 years at Northeastern Illinois University, MacDonald wrote six books on media history, including\u00a0One Nation Under Television: The Rise and Decline of Network TV; Blacks and White TV: African Americans... 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\/7462"}],"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=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7465,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions\/7465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}