{"id":8846,"date":"2015-09-16T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2015-09-16T06:20:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:20:39","slug":"wbez-cancels-three-tasty-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/09\/16\/wbez-cancels-three-tasty-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"WBEZ cancels three tasty podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Monica<\/a>

<\/a> Monica Eng<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5 <\/a>has pulled the plug on three locally produced podcasts \u2014 covering the food culture, craft beers and artists \u201con the edge of creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ceasing production at the station are \u201cChewing the Fat,\u201d <\/a>the food show with Monica Eng and Louisa Chu, \u201cStrange Brews,\u201d <\/a>the beer show with Andrew Gill and Alison Cuddy, and \u201cGeneral Admission,\u201d <\/a>the art show with Tyler Greene and Don Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud of the teams working on those projects, and we\u2019re proud of our investment in them,\u201d said Ben Calhoun, director of content and programming at Chicago Public Media. \u201cWe are, as we\u2019ve always been, an organization committed to locally-produced content and creative risk-taking. But the shows have not developed and grown to a point of sustainability. They may have core ideas that we may revisit \u2014 a beer show or a food-focused show \u2014 but the right decision for us at the moment is to stop production on these projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest cutbacks coincide with the arrival<\/a>\u00a0this week of Joel Meyer as executive producer of talk programming at Chicago Public Media. Meyer previously was managing producer of Slate <\/a>podcasts.\u00a0Earlier, Calhoun canceled<\/a> \u201cThe Afternoon Shift,\u201d the two-hour weekday news and talk show, redeploying most of its staff and resources to \u201cThe Morning Shift.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least two of the canceled podcasts soon may return in different versions.<\/p>\n

\"Louisa<\/a>

Louisa Chu<\/p><\/div>\n

Eng and Chu announced plans to launch a new podcast independently before the end of the year. \u201cI\u2019ve had so much fun doing \u2018Chewing the Fat' at WBEZ and am super grateful for all the support the station gave us,\u201d said Eng, who joined<\/a> the station full-time in 2013 from the Chicago Tribune, <\/a>where she was an investigative reporter specializing in food policy, nutrition, health, cooking, sustainability and consumer issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m also bursting with new ideas for the podcast that will be as wild as they are intellectually nourishing,\" she said. \"Plus, I think I might have finally found a dish Louisa will refuse to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eng, who continues as food and health reporter for WBEZ, this fall will complete a series on school food, backed by a food and farming journalism fellowship<\/a> from the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/a>

Andrew Gill<\/p><\/div>\n

Gill, who continues as a digital producer for WBEZ focusing on photo and video work, isn\u2019t giving up on \u201cStrange Brews\u201d either. \u201cI'm hoping to pitch a reimagined version to \u2019BEZ next year,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the meantime I plan to work on an independent beer podcast and work with my wife, Meghan Murphy-Gill, on her project \u2018Drinking Woman\u2019 (at drinkingwoman.com<\/a>).\u201d<\/p>\n

Greene and Hall noted that their \u201cGeneral Admission\u201d produced its first 15 episodes before joining WBEZ. \u201cJust a change in direction for the station \u2014 and a change in direction for us, to be quite honest,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5 has pulled the plug on three locally produced podcasts \u2014 covering the food culture, craft beers and artists \u201con the edge of creativity.\u201d Ceasing production at the station are \u201cChewing the Fat,\u201d the food show with Monica Eng and Louisa Chu, \u201cStrange Brews,\u201d the beer show with Andrew Gill... 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\/8846"}],"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=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}