Media
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Feder: Tribune CEO calls Alden bid a 'source of distraction'Jan 04, 2021 12:00 am - The year is opening on a sour note for employees of the Chicago Tribune, now that Alden Global Capital, the New York-based hedge fund that owns a 32 percent stake in Tri...
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Feder: The Score promotes Leila Rahimi to midday co-host with Dan BernsteinJan 04, 2021 12:00 am - Leila Rahimi broke a 29-year gender barrier Monday by being named full-time midday co-host at WSCR 670-AM, the Entercom sports/talk station. As the first woman to host a...
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Hedge fund Alden offers to buy Tribune, valuing it at $521 million
Dec 31, 2020 12:00 am - Hedge fund Alden, Tribune's largest shareholder, has offered to buy the rest of the newspaper publisher at a price that values it at $520.6 million. Alden sent a letter ...
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Jim O'Donnell: What to expect from Sports world in 2021Dec 31, 2020 12:00 am - SO THIS IS New Year's. And who would believe? The sports figures still scurry around inside the giant TV screens, the stadiums empty. Final scores are posted and bets a...
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Feder: 'Sanitized smooch' for Janet & Mark on ABC 7's countdownDec 31, 2020 12:00 am - It wouldn't be New Year's Eve in Chicago without Janet Davies and Mark Giangreco. Back for their 20th year together, the duo will host "Countdown Chicago 2021" live at 1...
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Feder: Chicago media rose to meet the challenges of 2020Dec 30, 2020 12:00 am - On a sunny Sunday afternoon in late February hundreds of print, broadcast and digital journalists sat shoulder to shoulder in a downtown hotel ballroom where they ponder...
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Jim O'Donnell: Classy Jack Rosenberg prevented mayhem on the Wrigley Field catwalkDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - ON A SUMMER EVENING at The Sports Page in north Arlington Heights, Jack Brickhouse once looked over a double J & B at a bearded "Celebrity Trivia Night" host and said: "...
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Feder: A look back at Chicago media luminaries who left us in 2020Dec 29, 2020 12:00 am - News anchor Joel Daly and journalist and author Jeannie Morris were among the Chicago media luminaries who left us in 2020. Go to robertfeder.com. for the complete l...
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Feder: WGN Sports legend Jack Rosenberg dies at age 94Dec 28, 2020 12:00 am - Jack Rosenberg, whose name was synonymous with WGN Sports in Chicago for more than 40 years and was credited with inventing much of what became standard in sports broadc...
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Feder: Christmas music lifts Lite FM to No. 1 in Chicago radio ratingsDec 28, 2020 12:00 am - Nonstop holiday music once again catapulted iHeartMedia adult contemporary WLIT 93.9-FM to the top spot in the latest Chicago radio ratings, Robert Feder writes. Lite FM...