Media
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Feder: Irika Sargent 'excited to be back' as CBS 2 anchor todayFeb 01, 2021 12:00 am - It's back to work today for new mom Irika Sargent, who returns to CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 as Monday-through-Friday news anchor alongside Brad Edwards, Robert Feder writ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Frisk, Whisler helped Travelers blaze lost local CBA trailJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - IN HIS 50 YEARS SHEPHERDING the sports department of The Daily Herald, Bob Frisk assigned himself to be the primary reporter on a pro sports beat only once. That rarity ...
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Feder: 'Hungry Hound' Steve Dolinsky leaving ABC 7's eat beatJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - Steve Dolinsky, the award-winning food critic who's been covering the eat beat with gusto for more than 25 years in Chicago, is stepping down as the "Hungry Hound" at AB...
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Feder: Rock critic Greg Kot to bring 'great music writing' to The Coda CollectionJan 28, 2021 12:00 am - One year after stepping down as the nationally renowned music critic at the Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot is about to help launch an ambitious new multimedia startup billed ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Should Aaron Rodgers have waved off the field goal unit?Jan 27, 2021 12:00 am - AARON RODGERS HAD ONE brief, beckoning moment last Sunday to forever enter the American sports contrarian Valhalla. It came on that now notorious fourth-and-goal vs. Tam...
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Feder: WLS Radio adds another familiar voice to afternoonsJan 27, 2021 12:00 am - Hearing Judy Pielach in mornings and Kim Gordon in afternoons, you might think you're listening to WGN 720-AM, where both spent decades anchoring and reporting the news....
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Feder: Report says ex-CBS 2 boss tried in vain to 'change the culture'Jan 26, 2021 12:00 am - In 2018 Marty Wilke stunned the Chicago media community when she abruptly resigned after six years as president and general manager of CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, Robert F...
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Feder: Lite FM leads Chicago radio ratings with sounds of ChristmasJan 26, 2021 12:00 am - More than 2.2 million listeners tuned in to “Chicago's Christmas Music Station” in December, giving iHeartMedia adult contemporary WLIT 93.9-FM another humungous victory...
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Feder: Rebranded 'NewsNation' moving Joe Donlon to solo news hour at 6 p.m.Jan 25, 2021 12:00 am - After five months as co-anchor of NewsNation, the signature prime-time newscast on WGN America, Joe Donlon is being reassigned as solo anchor of a one-hour news show at ...
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Feder: NBC Sports Chicago cuts Bears, Blackhawks writersJan 22, 2021 12:00 am - Another bloodletting at NBC Sports Chicago cost the jobs of at least three writers Thursday and elicited another "no comment" from the regional sports network, Robert Fe...