Entertainment Columns
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Feder: WGN Radio adds NFL games; Bruce Miles reflects on his careerOct 11, 2019 1:00 am - Robservations on the media beat: You won't hear the Chicago Bears, but WGN 720-AM is about to begin airing select NFL football games on Sunday afternoons. Starting ...
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Feder: Dave Fogel keeps 'great thing going' in mornings at 94.7 WLSOct 10, 2019 1:00 am - Chicago radio veteran Dave Fogel just signed on for three more years of mornings at WLS 94.7-FM, the Cumulus Media classic hits station. WLS program director Wade Linder...
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O'Donnell: AM 1000 shocks the market with hiring of Boston's 'Hub happening' ThomasOct 09, 2019 1:00 am - FROM MUNDANE to pandering to unlistenable trash, few can argue sports talk radio in Chicago doesn't have it all. As a point of civic pride, the numbing genre checks in s...
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Feder: ESPN 1000 imports new boss from BostonOct 08, 2019 1:00 am - Although he's spent the last decade as program director of a sports/talk station in Boston, the new boss of ESPN Radio WMVP 1000-AM considers himself “a lifelong Chicago...
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Meet 'Game of Thrones' heroes, other celebs in Rosemont this weekendOct 07, 2019 6:00 am - Two of the most popular TV actors in the realm will be in Rosemont this weekend when ACE Comic Con Midwest invades the Donald E. Stephens Center. “Game of Thrones” Emmy ...
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Feder: Ex-Tribune exec to head creative services, programming at NBC 5Oct 07, 2019 1:00 am - Joseph Schiltz, former chief marketing officer and senior vice president of development at Chicago Tribune Media Group, has been hired as vice president of creative serv...
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O'Donnell: Theo rambles, Bears amble and surrealism rules the week in Chicago sportsOct 04, 2019 1:00 am - SOME ARE NOW CLEVERLY calling Theo Epstein's Monday news conference "an 81-minute filibuster." They're not wrong. The acrobatic linguist could have held podium for 81 da...
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Feder: DePaul town hall honors Chicago media's 'Power 25' womenOct 04, 2019 1:00 am - On Thursday night DePaul University and its Center for Journalism Integrity and Excellence brought my column on the Most Powerful Women in Chicago Journalism to life. Tw...
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Feder: Broadcast trio teams up to host 'Gabby Road'Oct 03, 2019 1:00 am - Three ambitious Chicago broadcasters are teaming up to host a weekly talk show aimed at “pushing the limits of smart conversational radio.” They are: Hannah Stanley, lon...
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Feder: V103 vaults back to the top of Chicago radio ratingsOct 02, 2019 1:00 am - WVAZ 102.7-FM, the iHeartMedia urban adult-contemporary station known as V103, took top honors Tuesday in the Nielsen Audio survey for September, Robert Feder writes. Ju...