Also: Decades finds new station group; FCC votes to modify kidvid rules and strike down San Francisco apartment broadband law Hubbard Broadcasting continued its dominance of local Chicago radio in the recently released May PPM Nielsen rankings. As reported by Robert Feder, WTMX finished first again, with sister station The Drive (WDRV-FM) finishing a strong second. The Minnepaolis-based company also […]
For the first time in decades, Chicago is holding a big celebration downtown on New Year’s Eve. As first reported by the Chicago Tribune Thursday, city planners are creating a huge event to ring in 2016, with music, fireworks, and more fun stuff along the Chicago River between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive. Dubbed Chi-Town Rising, the event is being […]
Rights shift to WCIU-TV; continues on WLS-TV; TV One also bows out In a surprise move, this Saturday’s 83rd Annual Bud Billiken Back-To-School Parade – which generally draws close to one million spectators a year to Dr. Martin Luther King Drive on Chicago’s South Side – is shifting from Tribune-owned WGN-TV to Weigel’s WCIU-TV. This story first broke on Chicagoland […]