Guess who gave advice recently to the staff at Fox News Chicago? None other than Shepard Smith of Fox News, who, in a meeting with several news staffers, anchors, producers, and managers, completely ripped the station’s efforts, notably the station’s new 10 p.m. newscast, The Ten. Smith said that the newscast should have more music, move at a faster pace, […]
My Name Is Earl also goes to TBS NBC Universal sold its (somewhat) popular sitcom The Office to TBS and to several Fox-owned television outlets today. Fox stations will clear the show in ten markets, including WFLD/WPWR in Chicago. TBS will air repurposed episodes this fall and will strip the program in 2009. TBS adds the show to its stable […]
St. Sabina Church, whose pastor is Rev. Michael Pflager, has begun a billboard campaign to urge residents in the Chatham, Englewood, and Auburn Gresham neighborhoods on the South Side to get rid of negative hip-hop music which demeans women, contains foul language, and promotes a violent lifestyle. Artists listed on the billboard (with the names printed on a trash can) […]
CBS-owned WBBM-TV 5 p.m. newscast’s lead story today and on the front page of their websiteat the same time: http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_167144811.html On a day when there were several anti-violence marches all across the city, a bunch of brawlers take center stage at Wrigley. No wonder these guys are in last place in the ratings. Great month for journalism, huh? People dying […]
Nineteen TV stations in Chicago and Milwaukee won vindication from the FCC after the agency rejected another bogus complaint from a media activist group. This time it was the Chicago Media Action and the Milwaukee Public Interest Media Collation, fronts for the Media Access Project, who claims that the stations ignored non-federal races in a month leading up to the […]
Sam Zell, who is buying the Tribune Co., met with several Democratic leaders on Tuesday, including Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and expressed his concern that federal regulators are moving too slowly in deciding whether or not Tribune can own the same media in the same market, including Chicago. Tribune needs FCC waivers to keep the properties it has in five […]
One thing Barely Today didn’t want to do is barely get viewers. As a result, NBC-owned WMAQ-TV has dropped the show and will expand its morning newscast to 4:30 a.m. starting Monday, where Barely Today previously aired. The program was hosted by Bruce Wolf, who will now be reassigned to sports anchoring and reporting duties during the morning newscast.
No, we’re not talking about former NFL coach Jim Mora talking about not going to the playoffs. But if WBBM’s newscasts were a sports team, it wouldn’t make the playoffs. And as a result, changes must be made. And so, Antonio Mora is out and Rob Johnson is in after a shakeup at CBS-owned WBBM-TV’s perennially low-rated 10 p.m. newscast. […]
Mrs. Fortman – Joey Fortman, that is – is leaving the morning show at Nine FM, so she could can move to Philadelphia with her husband, who was named program director of WPEN-AM. No word on a replacement. Also, Kenard Karter has been named music director at urban contemporary WGCI-FM, replacing Tiffany Green, who exited the station in February. Karter […]
This award as is about as valuable as an MTV Movie award…. pretty much worthless. (And in the B&C article, notice how it didn’t even mention the station’s call letters? It’s written very amateurishly…)
That’s what this brief in MediaLife is implying – meaning that the struggling paper targeted to the African-American community may be cut back to twice-weekly or even just weekly. No word on when these changes might happen, but it’s not looking good. It seems that the paper is also neglecting its website – it hasn’t been updated today and there […]
Power 92’s Miguel Garcia, a.k.a. Donnie Devoe a.k.a “The Freakin’ Puerto Rican’” was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct on Wednesday after he became violent at a restaurant in south suburban Calumet City. The DJ, who works at urban contemporary WPWX-FM in nearby Hammond, Ind. reportedly threatened customers at the restaurant, and left the premises before police arrived. However, they […]
Former WGN-AM programming head Tisa LaSorte has been promoted to the newly created position of brand manager of The Loop (WLUP) and Q101 (WKQX). She’ll oversee both stations’ programming, marketing, promotions, and new media. She’ll report directly to Marv Nyren, who is a regional vice president and marketing manager of Emmis’ radio cluster in Chicago. And believe it or not, […]
To coincide with Bob Barker’s retirement from The Price Is Right next month, The Sun-Times reprinted an interview in today’s editions with Robert Feder conducting an interview with him in New York on August 6, 1985. In this article, Feder bought items from a grocery store and played a pricing game on ol’ Bob. He missed every one of them […]
WFLD-TV’s new 10 p.m. newscast called The Ten is clearly struggling in the ratings – but the program is skewing younger, and is exposing problems at crosstown rival WBBM-TV with their 10 p.m. newscast. According to an article in the Sun-Times today, The Fox-owned station’s newscast has surprisingly beat the CBS-owned station’s late newscast in the household ratings on some […]
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