Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye has started a CTA blog. So, if you want to complain about the CTA (and we all know you do), now you have a place to do so. Man, if this only existed 20 years ago when yours truly was regularly standing out on 79th street outside Sears in the wintertime waiting for a bus for […]
The NHL got some much needed good news over the last two days, as it successfully renewed its television pacts with NBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. NBC and the NHL came to terms on an extension of a revenue-sharing agreement, which was created in 2004 in which no upfront rights fee was paid. NBC has extended the agreement through […]
It’s official : Garry Meier joins WCKG-FM as an on-air host, beginning on Monday. His new show will air from 8 to 11 am weekdays. This puts him on the same station as his former partner, Steve Dahl. Dahl hosts afternoons from 2 to 7 pm. Dahl and Meier were on-air partners from 1979 to 1993, until a nasty breakup […]
If all goes well, the ownership of the Tribune Co. will end up in the hands of billionaire Sam Zell with an $8 billion dollar offer. If it goes through, he plans to take the company private, and plans to keep it intact.
Lyle Banks, the former WMAQ-TV general manager who tried an experiment ten years ago this April by putting trash TV talk show host Jerry Springer on the station’s 10 p.m. newscast (which forced Carol Marin and Ron Magers out the door) has sold his company’s TV station in Wichita (KSCW-TV) to Schurz Communications, which recently purchased CBS affiliate KWCH-TV. Schurz […]
Joel Hollander’s behind just got shoved out the door… Dan Mason, a CBS Radio veteran, is returning to the fold to replace Hollander as president and CEO of CBS Radio, Inc. Meanwhile, Joke Theissman, er, I mean Joe Theissman is out after 20 years working on ESPN’s football games. This past season, he worked alongside Mike Trico and Tony Kornhiser […]
The closure of The George Michael Sports Machine – ending tonight after a spectacular 24-year run. George Michael has stepped down as sports anchor of NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., which also produced the syndicated weekly sports clip show, after the parent network reduced the budget for the program, resulting in its’ cancellation. Michael (who shares the same name as […]
Don’t cry, little girl. So the Blackhawks didn’t make the playoffs this year. Don’t worry, you’ll get a chance to see them suck again next year.
Don’t know how the 18-49s and female demos are, but it looks like all that controversy over Miss USA Tara Conner didn’t bring viewers en masse to the pageant. (and boy, did the Miss USA pageant take a drubbing in the Tribune’s Tempo section yesterday. Ouch!) March Madness on CBS (The NCAA hoops tourney) ruled the night. (Bye, USC and […]
That’s the question Robert Feder is asking in today’s Chicago Sun-Times, where we writes about WGN-Channel 9’s planned move to air two-minute tourism features weekly between April and July on the station’s 9 p.m. newscast – sponsored by the Illinois Department of Tourism. According to the station’s news director, they will ask the Department of Tourism on advice on the […]
In an unprecedented move, General Electric-owned NBC Universal and NewsCorp. have announced that will form a video source to compete with Google-owned YouTube. The ad-supported, yet-to-be-named site will be up and running this summer and will feature full-length episodes of shows from NBC and Fox, including Heroes, 24, The Simpsons, and Top Chef. Movies available for downloads are from their […]
Best known to fans of Late Night With David Letterman as Larry “Bud” Melman, Calvert DeForest passed away Monday in a Long Island hospital after a long illness. He was 85. Because his character’s name was NBC’s intellectual property, his appeared on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman under his real name, when the show switched networks in 1993. Mr. […]
In a rather decidedly tongue-in-cheek press release, Nine-FM, the suburban-based triplecast that has a variety hits format, proclaims that the station is no longer giving away free CDs and encouraging listeners to send any CDs they won back to the station in exchange for a Nine FM T-shirt. Where are the returned CDs going? Back to the RIAA and Sound […]
Not really, but Garry Meier may end up on the same station (WCKG) as Steve Dahl, who worked together for several different Chicago radio stations until a falling out in 1993 (The duo did reunite last August for one time only.) Rob Feder has the scoop here.
Here’s another rich guy named Bill I hate… The only difference is this guy is actually successful. Bob Garfield of Advertising Age interviews Microsoft founder Bill Gates (click here to read the article and download the podcast), and Gates talks about the digital world, but when it came to those Mac vs. PC ads, Bill Gates turned into Bill Wirtz. […]
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