Entertainment Columns
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Feder: Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder launch podcast for CumulusFeb 04, 2020 12:00 am - Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder, who were forced out as midday co-hosts at Nexstar Media Group news/talk WGN 720-AM in November, just launched a podcast for Cumulus Media Chi...
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Feder: Why new morning host Richard Milne loves WXRT 'and everything it stands for'Jan 31, 2020 12:00 am - Thirty-four years after Richard Milne joined WXRT 93.1-FM as weekend overnight host, he's about to become the face and the voice of morning drive at "Chicago's Finest Ro...
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Feder: Anchor Terrence Lee, reporter Brittany Garzillo headed for Fox 32Jan 30, 2020 12:00 am - Look for two new hires to be announced today at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32, Robert Feder writes. Terrence Lee, morning news anchor at ABC affiliate WEWS in Cleveland, is...
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Feder: Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020 to convene Feb. 23Jan 29, 2020 12:00 am - On a wintry Sunday afternoon in 2009, Ken Davis and Linda Paul assembled a roomful of media elders and innovators to share their thoughts about the uncertain future of j...
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Feder: Sinclair settles Tribune Media lawsuit for $60 millionJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - Sinclair Broadcast Group has finally closed the book on its bungled attempt to take over Tribune Media, Robert Feder writes. In 2017 Sinclair sought to buy Tribune Medi...
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Feder: V103 moves 'The Sweat Hotel' to evenings; WGCI, Big 95.5 keeping it localJan 27, 2020 12:00 am - Keith Sweat, the famed R&B recording artist and radio personality, is moving to the evening shift on iHeartMedia urban adult-contemporary WVAZ 102.7-FM, Robert Feder wri...
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Feder: PBS documentary recalls Chicago's 'First Rainbow Coalition'Jan 27, 2020 12:00 am - In 1969 the In 1969 the Chicago Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance with the Latino Young Lords Organization and the southern white Young Patriots group to c...
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O'Donnell: More spin around Arlington Park - Track may open earlier than ever for 'leased' trainingJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - NO WORDS HAD TO BE SPOKEN for it to be understood at last Tuesday's monthly meeting of the flaccid Illinois Racing Board: When it comes to any aspect about the operation...
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Feder: Former ABC 7 reporter Paul Meincke recovering from heart surgeryJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - Paul Meincke, the legendary former Chicago television newsman, is on the mend in Los Angeles after undergoing emergency surgery for a torn aorta, Robert Feder writes. "T...
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Feder: Justin Breen shares 'secrets' with fellow entrepreneursJan 23, 2020 12:00 am - North Shore native Justin Breen, the former DNAinfo Chicago senior editor who launched his own public relations and communications business in 2017, just turned author, ...