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January 24, 2025

The Media Notepad: Chicago Public Media to offer buyouts to selected employees of WBEZ, Sun-Times

Also: Meteorologist loses job due to social media post; new game show announced; Trump Country returns to SW Florida With revenues falling short of expectations, WBEZ and Sun-Times owner Chicago Public Media announced Wednesday it was offering buyouts to certain employees, including journalists at the paper and business employees from the radio station. In a staff meeting Wednesday, newly installed […]

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January 21, 2025

Jesse Jackson Jr. heads to WVON as afternoon host

Joins Jim Laski and Clifford Kelley as convicted felons rehabilitate their image as radio hosts On a day when a convicted felon returned to the White House, it’s only fitting another convicted felon lands a job as a radio talk show host in Chicago. Former disgraced congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., whose father is a civil rights icon, is back with […]

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January 17, 2025

Report: Chuck Goudie out at ABC 7

The longtime investigative reporter was at the ABC-owned station for 44 years Axios Chicago is reporting that Chuck Goudie has been let go from ABC-owned WLS-TV after a four-decade-plus run at the top-rated station. “Chuck Goudie was a valued member of our ABC7 team for many years and we thank him for his groundbreaking contributions,” a station spokesperson told Axios […]

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January 16, 2025

The Media Notepad: Jim Williams exits CBS Chicago

Also: WFMT names new morning host; Tubi to stream Super Bowl LIX for free; Philly jock removed from air because “she wasn’t funny enough” Jim Williams, a longtime fixture on Chicago television, announced he was stepping down from his 4 p.m. anchor role at CBS Chicago on Thursday as he wraps up a 40-year career. “I hesitate to call it […]

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January 14, 2025

DirecTV offers skinny bundle sports package, “MySports”

Comes after Venu collapse Just days after the planned Disney-Fox-Warner Bros. Discovery joint venture Venu fell through, one of the principals that helped bring down the effort is releasing its own “skinny bundle”. DirecTV announced Tuesday it was launching MySports, a new sports streaming service available at launch in seventeen of the top twenty markets including Chicago, and includes local […]

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January 10, 2025

Grand Opening, Grand Closing: Disney, WBD, Fox abandon Venu effort

Dish and DirecTV objections and Fubo offering a similar package led to the demise The Venu is closed before it even opens. Despite a settlement reached in a lawsuit settled by Disney and Fubo due to the latter agreeing to sell itself to them, the joint venture between Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch a new affordable skinny […]

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January 7, 2025

Comcast, Paramount Global renews deal

CBS Chicago to stay on Xfinity systems; subscribers to get Paramount Plus Paramount Global and Comcast announced a new carriage deal on Tuesday. The multi-year deal includes Paramount’s portfolio of networks, including CBS and its owned stations, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and others. Comcast subscribers will also continue to gain access to streamers Paramount Plus, BET Plus, and Pluto […]

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January 7, 2025

Disney’s Hulu + Live TV merges with Fubo, Venu lawsuit settled

Paves way for new Disney-WBD-Fox joint venture to launch [Editor’s Note: This article has been updated.] In a stunning turn of events, virtual multiple video program distributor Fubo announced Monday that it agreed to terms to merge with rival Hulu + Live TV, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Just as important, it removes a key stumbling block for sports-themed […]

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January 6, 2025

Rock 95.5 launches “The Morning Mosh Pit”

Existing station personalities come to mornings iHeartMedia Chicago rock station Rock 95.5 launched new morning show The Morning Mosh Pit Monday with Matt Harris, Michael Mason, and Maria Palmer at the helm. “We have assembled an insanely talented group to entertain Chicago’s incredible rock lifestyle fanbase,” iHeart Media Chicago Regional Senior VP of Programming and WCHI PD James Howard said […]

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January 5, 2025

The Media Notepad: WCIU, “On The Block” part ways

Also: Diginet changes in the new year: KSDK becomes the latest media property to leave downtown St. Louis; Diamond becomes Main Street In another blow to local linear TV, non-profit news organization Block Club Chicago and Weigel independent WCIU have parted ways on On The Block after nearly years. The announcement was made on X Friday with the last episode […]

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January 3, 2025

NHL Winter Classic flops with viewers, fans

Blackhawks get pummeled at Wrigley Field and in the ratings as classic moved to New Year’s Eve It’s fitting that the awful year in Chicago sports was topped off by the Blackhawks playing nothing resembling hockey in the NHL Winter Classic. As first reported by Sports Media Watch, the NHL Winter Classic’s move a day earlier from New Year’s Day […]

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January 1, 2025

Rewinding media in 2024: Tough all over

Linear TV, Chicago sports struggles, and election results made it a year to forget If you are a Chicagoan, 2024 sure as hell wasn’t your year. You saw your city’s sports teams play abysmally, including a record-loss-setting feat for the White Sox and seeing the Bears getting mauled every week. You also saw your government – here or in the […]

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December 27, 2024

Remembering Greg Gumbel

South Side native dies at 78 Longtime CBS Sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel passed away Friday afternoon at the age of 78 due to complications from cancer. Born in New Orleans and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Gumbel graduated from De La Salle High School and started his career at NBC-owned WMAQ-TV in 1973 as a sports anchor and interviewer, and […]

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December 22, 2024

Local news organizations drawn in to Tiffany Henyard drama

NBC 5 joins WGN News, and Fox 32 in documenting Dolton’s chaos as media tries to navigate choppy waters on covering her As you know, there is never a shortage of political scandals to cover in Illinois. From Operation Silver Shovel to Blago, the non-stop corruption has kept journalists busy and fascinated observers. And in the Year Of Our Lord […]

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December 19, 2024

The Media Notepad: All City announces cutbacks, including five on-air layoffs at CHGO Sports

Also: NBC’s RSN to be made available on Peacock; Braves baseball return to TBS. Well, somewhat. The podcast network and website CHGO Sports was hit with layoffs on Wednesday with five employees let go as part of cutbacks by parent company All City Sports, which eliminated seven percent of its workforce across its portals in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Phoenix, […]

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