Robert Feder's Final Sun-Times Column

"Yes, this is it. I'm stepping down today after 28 years of daily coverage of radio and television for the Sun-Times," Robert Feder writes in Friday's Chicago Sun-Times.

True to form, Feder includes a series of "predictions I'm willing to bet will occur in the coming months and beyond" in his sign-off.

Among them:

It's no longer a question of if but when: Bob Sirott will replace Warner Saunders as the No. 1 news anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5.
[...]
Richard Roeper will return to national television as host of a new movie-review show that will uphold the fine tradition of the late, lamented "Ebert & Roeper" and "Siskel & Ebert."

The only question is whether he will launch it before or after the execrable current version of "At the Movies" disappears.
[..]
Two years after he was forced off the air in Chicago, Mancow Muller will be back.

Citadel Broadcasting is in the final stages of negotiations to put Muller on news/talk WLS-AM (890) in a slot that would allow him to continue his nationally syndicated morning show.

Read the entire column, and all of Feder's final predictions, here.

Comments

[bmedich]

Bruce DuMont's dream? To be as famous as the people he once honored in his museum. I predicted 5 years ago when Mr. DuMont was shown the door at the Cultural Center that the museum would never reopen. I stand by that prediction.

[LJWALKER]

When I was a student at Columbia College Chicago, the Feder column was taught to radio students as the first thing to read in the morning. As an intern at WKQX part of my responsibilities was to copy the column and distribute it to everyones desk. I was lucky to receive a few mentions in his column over the years for some of the times I've moved around the market as a DJ and will definitely miss reading it.

Wish you the best Rob.

[ChiGuy]

Truly one of the more painful losses of staffers from Chicago's papers.

Bets of luck, Rob!