Media
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Feder: Lite FM celebrates another Christmas season on topJan 10, 2022 12:00 am - To the surprise of absolutely no one, WLIT 93.9-FM swept the radio ratings in its 21st consecutive season as Chicago's Christmas station. The iHeartMedia adult contempor...
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From writing about the stage to writing for itJan 09, 2022 12:00 am - For more than 40 years, longtime Deerfield resident Howard Reich covered music and the arts for the Chicago Tribune with passion and sensitivity, adding six books and th...
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Jim O'Donnell: 30 years of "The Score" - from daring phenom to homogenized horizontalingJan 08, 2022 12:00 am - THE CHICAGO RADIO STATION known as "The Score" went on the air 30 years ago this week. If there is any anniversary celebration for WSCR-AM (670) - and station management...
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Jim O'Donnell: A rare window for George McCaskey and his Bears to stun its paying publicJan 05, 2022 12:00 am - THE BEARS MOVED INTO an astonishing new world of potential business credibility when management announced the execution of a Purchase and Sale Agreement for Arlington Pa...
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Jim O'Donnell: From the Bears and Arlington Park to Erin Andrews, 2021 will hopefully lead to 2022Dec 30, 2021 12:00 am - THREE RELEVANT ROCK 'N ROLL QUOTES to fill in for the late Dick Clark as yet another surreal New Year's continues its creep toward midnight: • "The future's uncertain an...
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Jim O'Donnell: An old beer commercial helped flip John Madden into an NFLer for the agesDec 29, 2021 12:00 am - FOUR WARRING WORDS greatly assisted the rise of John Madden from former NFL coaching curiosity to beloved national icon: "Tastes great! ... Less filling!" That was it. W...
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Jim O'Donnell: Brickhouse, Caray and Swirsky among new list of America's Top 100 sportscastersDec 24, 2021 12:00 am - SPORTS BROADCAST JOURNAL is an engaging trade newsletter distributed every week. SBJ's publisher is David J. Halberstam - not to be confused with the late Pulitzer Prize...
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Feder: A look back at Chicago media luminaries who left us in 2021Dec 23, 2021 12:00 am - Gone but not forgotten: A look back at Chicago media luminaries who left us in 2021. Bill Barnhart business columnist Bill Bird reporter Roger Brown news writer Bill Cam...
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Feder: Court upholds former producer's lawsuit against Eric FergusonDec 22, 2021 12:00 am - A former assistant producer's lawsuit against Chicago radio personality Eric Ferguson over allegations of an "unwelcome sexual relationship" during their employment at W...
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Jim O'Donnell: Was the Bears' brief weekend in London the beginning of the end for Nagy?Dec 22, 2021 12:00 am - WHEN INVESTIGATORS from The National Transportation Safety Board arrive in Lake Forest to begin sifting through the debris of The Matt Nagy Era, here's a date to focus o...