Media
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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...
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Jim O'Donnell: Masked Sports Santa can only hope for no reindeer positivesDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - FROM WAY UP NORTH where the air gets cold, Masked Sports and Media Santa is set to roll. He's made a list, tossed it out twice and will be winging it Christmas Eve when ...
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Feder: Can MeTV hook Boomers with Bill Leff and a talking fish?Dec 21, 2020 12:00 am - Bill Leff, the immensely talented Chicago broadcaster, stand-up comic and improv actor, gets top billing as the amiable host of "Toon In With Me." But the real star of t...
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Feder: Former WGN anchor Pielach joins WLS morning showDec 20, 2020 12:00 am - Longtime Chicago radio news personality Judy Pielach has signed on as a contributor to the new Bruce St. James morning show at Cumulus Media news/talk WLS 890-AM. Starti...
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Feder: WGN Radio names Steve Alexander to succeed Orion SamuelsonDec 17, 2020 12:00 am - When the legendary Orion Samuelson retires at the end of the month after 60 years at WGN 720-AM, he'll turn over the agribusiness beat to Steve Alexander, who's been a n...
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Jim O'Donnell: The secret of Jeannie Morris was no grand secret at allDec 16, 2020 12:00 am - THE ABSOLUTE ESSENCE of Jeannie Morris as a journalist was markedly ingenious: Charm and disarm. Whether it was Mike Ditka or Michael Jordan or one of the state of Illin...
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Feder: The Mix bids farewell to morning co-star Melissa McGurrenDec 16, 2020 12:00 am - Melissa McGurren, who rose from traffic reporter to full-fledged co-host of Eric Ferguson's top-rated morning show, is out after more than two decades at WTMX 101.9-FM, ...
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Feder: Chicago Reporter names Glenn Reedus interim editorDec 15, 2020 12:00 am - Glenn Reedus, a longtime Chicago journalist and former editor at the Chicago Defender and Chicago Crusader, has been named interim editor and publisher of the Chicago Re...