<\/a>Bill Kurtis<\/p><\/div>\n
Weigel\u2019s winners:<\/strong> Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting was behind two of the year\u2019s most promising media ventures. One was Decades, a multicast TV network launched as a joint venture with CBS Television Stations. Centerpiece of the nostalgic channel was \u201cThrough the Decades,\u201d an hourlong daily time capsule of news and pop culture hosted by Bill Kurtis. The other notable startup was Me-TV FM, a fresh approach to soft rock\/oldies radio airing over a low-power TV signal at WRME LP 87.7. In December Me-TV FM posted its highest audience share to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking back at the top stories on the Chicago media beat in 2015: Video v\u00e9rit\u00e9: Ten news organizations sought release of a dash-cam video showing the Chicago police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014. But it took the persistence of one independent journalist, Brandon Smith, to get a court order forcing the city... 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\/9867"}],"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=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9884,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/9884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}