{"id":8031,"date":"2015-06-26T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8031"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:15:35","slug":"wbbm-newsradio-dedicates-studio-to-eric-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/06\/26\/wbbm-newsradio-dedicates-studio-to-eric-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"WBBM Newsradio dedicates studio to Eric Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Eric Brown Studio (Photo: Bob Bresse-Rodenkirk)<\/p><\/div>\n

Colleagues of the late Chicago radio sportscaster Eric Brown paid tribute to him Friday with the dedication of a studio in his memory at WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9.<\/a><\/p>\n

Brown, who died <\/a>of cancer at 58 on June 24, 2014, was a highly regarded 26-year veteran of the CBS Radio all-news station.<\/p>\n

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Eric Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe dedicate this studio to the memory of Eric Brown 1955-2014 consummate sports journalist, beloved co-worker and irreplaceable friend,\u201d reads the plaque on Editing Studio 3, where Brown recorded many of his sports reports. It\u2019s the first time a studio at the station\u2019s Two Prudential Plaza headquarters at 180 North Stetson Avenue has been dedicated.<\/p>\n

In addition to current and former employees, present for the ceremony Friday was Brown\u2019s widow, Barbara.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a wonderful gathering in honor of a great sportscaster and even better friend to all of us at WBBM,\u201d said Ron Gleason, director of news and programming at WBBM Newsradio. \u201cHis passing a year ago was a great loss, but thanks to his co-workers, Eric's memory will live forever with the Eric Brown Studio. He truly was beloved by everyone at Newsradio.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown, a native of Chicago\u2019s Chatham neighborhood and graduate of St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, joined WBBM in 1988 after nine years at WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. He began his career at WBAY-TV, the ABC affiliate in Green Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colleagues of the late Chicago radio sportscaster Eric Brown paid tribute to him Friday with the dedication of a studio in his memory at WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9. Brown, who died of cancer at 58 on June 24, 2014, was a highly regarded 26-year veteran of the CBS Radio all-news station.<\/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\/8031"}],"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=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}