Business Columns
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Feder: CBS 2 goes missing from DirecTV, AT&T U-verseJul 22, 2019 1:00 am - Just when you thought WBBM-Channel 2's ratings couldn't go any lower, the CBS-owned station can't even be seen in thousands of Chicago area homes, Robert Feder writes. ...
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'Smelly' co-workers give their side of storyJul 21, 2019 6:00 am - In last week's column about dealing with a co-worker's personal odor, I asked for comments from readers who have been on the receiving end of such complaints. Reader 1: ...
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Jim Kendall: Selling can be made easierJul 21, 2019 1:00 am - Some entrepreneurs I know can sell almost anything to almost anybody, but most of us are more likely to be uncomfortable than comfortable when we have to sell. And, when...
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Neither heat, rain, cold nor drought can stop local sweet corn cropJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - In this dickens of a summer, the worst of times has given us a tale of too much sour weather for sweet corn at Wiltse's Farm Produce in Maple Park: Too wet. Too cold. To...
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Entrepreneur finds niche in selling refurbished Apple itemsJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Scott Pauga - like many young adults starting their careers - left college deep in debt, but he was determined to find a way out. As a young entrepreneur, he started out...
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Feder: WBBM Newsradio starts beaming from BloomingdaleJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Listeners aren't likely to tell the difference, but all-news WBBM 780-AM began broadcasting Thursday from a new radio tower just off Army Trail Road in Bloomingdale, Rob...
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Feder: 'Timing just feels right' for radio entrepreneur Sam AlexJul 18, 2019 1:00 am - Sam Alex is living proof that radio dreams still come true, Robert Feder writes. Sixteen years after he started as an intern for a Chicago radio station, the northwest s...
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Sales Moves: Average or mediocre: You choose!Jul 16, 2019 1:00 am - I had an interesting conversation with a prospect the other day about what it takes to be average versus mediocre. It all started when a young man, John, called and said...
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Feder: Moody Bible Institute selling AM radio stationsJul 16, 2019 1:00 am - WMBI 1110-AM, the radio flagship of Chicago's Moody Bible Institute since 1926 and one of the oldest noncommercial Christian radio stations in the country, is on the blo...
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Feder: ABC 7's Alan Krashesky documents survivor's 'Return to Auschwitz'Jul 15, 2019 1:00 am - Over his 37 years as a news anchor and reporter for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, Alan Krashesky has traveled the world more times than he can recall. But few assignments aff...