RIP Art Hellyer

From this morning's Robert Feder column...

Art Hellyer is being remembered as a legendary broadcasting pioneer and one of Chicago’s most popular radio personalities of the ’50s and ’60s. Hellyer, who died Wednesday at 95, achieved his greatest fame as the witty and irreverent “Morning Madcap” on the former WCFL. Radio historian Chuck Schaden called him “the originator and perhaps the foremost exponent of zany, off-the-wall comedy on the air.” Among Hellyer’s claims to fame was being No. 1 in the ratings four times in four different decades on four different Chicago radio stations in four different time slots. He also had a 20-year run as a local and network announcer for ABC TV and radio in Chicago, and hosted news, talk shows, game shows, sports and other programs.