Media
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Feder: WBEZ owner completes Sun-Times acquisitionFeb 01, 2022 12:00 am - The parent company of public radio news/talk WBEZ 91.5-FM finalized its takeover of the Sun-Times Monday, marking the money-losing newspaper's conversion to a nonprofit ...
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Feder: Hacker forces BGA community forum on Cabrini-Green to shut downJan 31, 2022 12:00 am - An online community forum hosted by the Better Government Association Saturday was disrupted by a hacker who posted images of child pornography and expressions of hate s...
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Jim O'Donnell: Saying goodbye to an era - the amazing race of Dick DuchossoisJan 29, 2022 12:00 am - VOLTAIRE ONCE SUGGESTED that there is birth, there is death and in between are starts of fancied follies and true miseries. Dick Duchossois spent a lifetime trying to ou...
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Feder: Lite FM sets ratings record with Christmas musicJan 27, 2022 12:00 am - More than 2.5 million listeners in the Chicago area tuned to WLIT 93.9-FM in the final weeks of 2021 as the iHeartMedia adult contemporary station culminated its 21st co...
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Jim O'Donnell: Lesson No. 1 for Ryan Poles - always stay ahead of the posse at Halas HallJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - IN A PERFECT BEARS UNIVERSE - hah! - Ryan Poles would receive appropriate sports & media counseling before assuming office as general manager. He would be told to never ...
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O'Donnell: Bears could juice big job hunts by adding Belichick, Dungy to rumored mixJan 22, 2022 7:45 am - DON'T BLAME THE FANBOY MEDIA for the glacialness of the Bears' muskrat ramble to find a new general manager and head coach. George McCaskey and his black-and-blue clue c...
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Feder: WDCB station manager Dan Bindert keeps the faith with jazz fansJan 21, 2022 12:00 am - As a mainstay of public radio in the Chicago area for more than two decades, Dan Bindert has worked to keep the sounds of jazz in the air with the passion of a true fan....
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Feder: NBC Chicago News launches round-the-clock streaming channel on PeacockJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - From the NBC Tower studios of WMAQ-Channel 5 a 24/7 local news streaming channel branded as NBC Chicago News premieres today on Peacock. Available free to users of the s...
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Feder: Sabrina Franza joins CBS 2Jan 20, 2022 12:00 am - Just in from New York, Sabrina Franza has joined CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 as its newest general assignment reporter. "I can't wait for this next chapter, adventure, cha...
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Jim O'Donnell: Even when Grobstein had no other place to go, Chicago sports radio had to take him inJan 19, 2022 12:00 am - THE LAUDATORY FAREWELLS to Les Grobstein are beginning to slow. All that have been broadcast and written have been well-deserved. A handful have touched magnificence in ...