Entertainment Columns
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Feder: New CEO choice withdraws before getting started at WBEZSep 11, 2020 1:00 am - In an embarrassing setback for the nonprofit parent company of news/talk WBEZ 91.5-FM, it's back to square one in the search for a new president and chief executive offi...
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Feder: 'News Nation' edict costs Nexstar stations access to CNN videoSep 10, 2020 1:00 am - Every startup has growing pains, but "News Nation" may be having more than its share. Just 10 days after the launch of the Chicago-based three-hour primetime national ne...
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Jim O'Donnell: NFL's honeymoon with legal gambling all about 'Confidence'Sep 09, 2020 1:00 am - WAY BACK WHEN THE NFL first began to harvest some real TV money, Pete Rozelle and CBS commissioned a vibrant theme song called “Confidence.” It was rousing. It quickly b...
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Feder: Steve Bertrand, John Records Landecker round out new WGN Radio lineupSep 08, 2020 1:00 am - Overshadowed by the firing late Friday of afternoon host Roe Conn and overnight host Nick Digilio was news of two new shows coming to Nexstar Media Group news/talk WGN 7...
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Feder: Suddenly silenced by Big 95.5, Lisa Dent thankful to her 'diehard fans'Sep 04, 2020 1:00 am - Lisa Dent, who's been synonymous with country music radio in Chicago for nearly two decades, never got to say goodbye to her fans. As midday personality at WEBG 95.5-FM,...
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Feder: Roe Conn, Nick Digilio out in WGN Radio shakeupSep 04, 2020 1:00 am - WGN 720-AM, the Nexstar Media Group news/talk station, chose the Friday night of a three-day holiday weekend to drop the bombshell that it's overhauling its weekday afte...
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Jim O'Donnell: 'Amazing' growth for The Mike Spellman Scholarship FundSep 02, 2020 1:00 am - THE HEARTENING, ORGANIC GROWTH of The Mike Spellman Scholarship Fund continues. Despite no formal organization or annual fundraising event behind it, the core endowment ...
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Widescreen: New movies are back, but don't discount 'Invisible Man' at Oscar timeAug 28, 2020 6:00 am - New movies are creeping back into theaters now, and while I don't think this week's "Bill and Ted Face the Music" or last week's box office champ "Unhinged" will be in t...
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Feder: New NBC 5 series offers perspective on 'Race in Chicago'Aug 28, 2020 1:00 am - Marion Brooks, veteran news anchor and investigative reporter at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, just launched a weekly series of special reports on "Race in Chicago: How Did ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Memories come flooding back on a visit to French Lick, IndianaAug 28, 2020 1:00 am - FRENCH LICK, Ind. - Socially, the hamlet is miles from nowhere. That includes the bloodstained streets of Kenosha. It's roughly an hour west-northwest of Louisville, ver...