Moves to a membership model instead It’s rare for a newspaper to drop its paywall, given it helps pay the bills because as you know, journalism doesn’t come free. But the Sun-Times is betting a new model would attract more readers and visitors to its website. Crain’s Chicago Business reported Thursday the paper is dropping its paywall five months after […]
The CNN castoff finds new home thanks to Nexstar You probably figured Chris Cuomo’s appearance on NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live Tuesday night would leave to something more for the ex-CNN host down the line. It was so carefully orchestrated you’d think Abrams offered Cuomo a job right on the air. And boom – shortly after his appearance, the Nexstar-owned cable […]
The media entrepreneur comes to the rescue with an $11 million buyout Black media entrepreneur Byron Allen has been building his empire one by one and this week, he added another piece. A bankruptcy court judge in Tallahassee, Fla. approved an $11 million buyout of the Black News Channel by Allen Media Group, a company whose holdings include The Weather […]
iHeartMedia’s news network targeting African-Americans get full-time signal on Peotone station The Black Information Network has landed its first, full-time outlet in the Chicago area. Birach Broadcasting’s WMFN-AM (640) has inked a deal to carry BIN on a full-time basis. The flip came last Thursday, replacing a Spanish-language Regional Mexican format. WMFN is licensed to south suburban Peotone, a city […]
New offerings include devoted channels to Wheel Of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Judge Judy; National Geographic, and Canada’s CBC as business continues to grow The growth of free, ad-supported streaming television channels – or FAST for short, isn’t just blooming – it’s exploding. On Monday, Paramount Global’s Pluto TV announced the addition of channels dedicated to classic Jeopardy! and Wheel of […]
WDRV-FM opens up a nearly two-point share lead on WBBM-AM/WCFS-FM In the May survey, Hubbard’s Classic Rock station The Drive (WDRV-FM) scored their first-ever ratings victory in their 21-year history, dislodging Adult R&B V103 (WVAZ-FM) as Chicago’s top-rated music station. Not only they repeated the feat again in June, they expanded their lead over their competitors. The Drive topped the […]
Stunning announcement as longtime beloved personality reveals he has prostate cancer Longtime WXRT radio personality Lin Brehmer announced Tuesday he was taking an undisclosed leave of absence from the Album Adult Alternative (Triple A) station as he is fighting prostate cancer and heading to chemotherapy. WXRT posted a message from the 67 year-old Brehmer on its website and on […]
$44 billion deal falls apart as legal battle begins I guess the employees at Twitter dodged a huge bullet. Self-proclaimed Richest Man In The World Elon Musk announced late Friday afternoon he was withdrawing his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter in a letter he sent to Twitter’s chief legal officer. The reason for the termination of the deal has […]
Also: Nexstar, The CW moves closer to deal; Magnum P.I. moves to NBC; Broadband comes to western Illinois town After 42 years on the media beat, Daily Herald media reporter Robert Feder is stepping away as he exited the paper July 1. Feder started writing at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1980 until he took a buyout from the paper in […]
Local stations pre-empt programming on holiday For a city used to the horrors of gun violence, even this was too much to take. On a sparkly clear day, a Fourth Of July parade in the north suburban community of Highland Park was interrupted by a gunman who opened fire from a roof of a commercial building, hitting spectators below. As […]
Toony the Tuna is not only an A.M. hit, he’s a nighttime one too Back in January 2021, this space heralded MeTV’s “Toon In With Me” as one of the ten things to watch in the new year ahead. Well, the daily classic cartoon show strip is not only a hit with viewers, it actually spun off a show that’s […]