Jonathan Hood resigns from ESPN 1000

ESPN RADIO 1000 personality, Jonathan Hood, is now former ESPN RADIO 1000 personality according to an announcement he just made via his Facebook status update:

Jonathan Hood Has left the building. I've resigned from ESPN 1000. Check your notes section for my next stop. 10 minutes ago

What is next for him? Mike North's ChicagoSportsWebio.com? In the notes section Hood writes:

17 of my 19 years in the business have been in sportsradio in some capacity and now I'm excited about this new opportunity at chicagosportswebio.com

I will be teaming with Tim Doyle mid days from 11-3 pm cdt on chicagosportswebio.com starting April 6th. We really need your support in this new venture and the former Wildcat and yours truly hope we can keep you company during the middays. If you've heard my shows in the past, you know that I'm always about fun, information, interaction with you and oh yeah, fun.

I want to thank anyone who turned on The Show or Chicago. Baseball Tonight. Thanks for the support and your time.

I appreciate what David Hernandez and Mike North are doing by starting this new webio creation.

Warner Saunders confronts Robert Feder at AFTRA annual meeting

Rumors are swirling around town about NBC5's legendary anchorman Warner Saunders confronting former Chicago Sun-Times media columnist Robert Feder at the annual meeting for the Chicago chapter of AFTRA event last night. The story we heard on the Roe Conn show on WLS-AM this afternoon is that during a Q&A session following an interview of Mr. Feder by WTTW's John Calloway, Mr. Saunders read a statement taking him to task for his treatment of Saunders and other local African American media personalities.

Over the years we found Mr. Feder's column to be an invaluable source for media news, however we did find him to be a big jerk as well and we felt his treatment of African American media personalities to be particularly harsh at times. We don't know if he is racist but he definitely be a jerk.

Read this gem regarding Feder outing a local anchor regarding her breast implants.

Race is a complicated issue and we fear that Mr. Saunders will be ridiculed for his actions last night. He may have over reached a bit, but Mr. Saunders IS NOT THE ONLY MEMBER of the Chicago media community who feels that way so we encourage folks to take a deep breath before calling Saunders totally off base on this.

Rather than recount the confrontation here is a clip from today's Roe Conn Show.