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Media: July 2024 • 45th Anniversary of Disco Demolition: A Loop Insider’s Story

Media: July 2024 • 45th Anniversary of Disco Demolition: A Loop Insider’s Story

| June 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

  In the heyday of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Loop (WLUP, 97.9 FM) was owned by Congressman Cecil Heftel of Heftel Broadcasting. The president of Heftel Broadcasting was Tom Hoyt. A few photos of Hoyt appear in my book The Loop Files, as do a few stories told by him during his Heftel […]

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Media: May 2019

Media: May 2019

| April 30, 2019 | 0 Comments

Jim O’Donnell has been off and on the media beat for Chicago area newspapers for four decades. As of a few months ago, he’s back on, and he’s landed at a familiar place, The Daily Herald. “That’s where my career started,” he says, “and now I’m doing a sports and media column thanks to a […]

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