Entertainment Columns
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Widescreen: A celebration and a history lesson, 'Pose' was the show of summerAug 23, 2019 6:00 am - The best TV show in the immediate post-Targaryen era is not “Stranger Things” or “Orange is the New Black,” though Netflix's big guns did make this deathly hot summer a ...
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Feder: NBC 5 to launch new lifestyle show 'Chicago Today' Sept. 6Aug 23, 2019 1:00 am - It's official: “Chicago Today,” a new lifestyle and entertainment show, will premiere September 6 on NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, Robert Feder writes. Initially it will ai...
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Feder: Kathy Hart pulling up stakes for MontanaAug 23, 2019 1:00 am - Kathy Hart, once one-half of the most popular morning duo in Chicago radio history, is heading out west, Robert Feder writes. Hart's agent, Steve Mandell, confirmed Thu...
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Feder: ABC 7 promotes 'Windy City' producer to programming chiefAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - Matt Knutson, executive producer of “Windy City Live,” has been promoted to director of content innovation at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, Robert Feder writes. He'll supervi...
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Feder: WAIT to go dark as Newsweb sells land to McHenry County CollegeAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - While the future of northwest suburban WAIT 850-AM remains uncertain, owner Newsweb Radio has agreed to sell the station's transmitter site in Crystal Lake to McHenry Co...
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Feder: Columnist Mary Mitchell celebrated as 'great Chicago icon'Aug 19, 2019 1:00 am - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and a legion of colleagues past and present honored columnist Mary Mitchell Friday on her stepping down after 29 yea...
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See suburban artists at work when Wizard World returns to RosemontAug 18, 2019 7:00 am - Celebrity guests, clever costumes and T-shirt towers have become the signature trappings of entertainment conventions like Wizard World Chicago, which returns Thursday, ...
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Feder: Bulls expert Mark Schanowski cutting back at NBC Sports ChicagoAug 16, 2019 1:00 am - Mark Schanowski, the affable and authoritative Chicago Bulls basketball analyst who's been a prominent player on the local sports media scene for three decades, is cutti...
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Feder: Jeff Joniak to join Chicagoland Sports Hall of FameAug 15, 2019 1:00 am - Jeff Joniak, sports director of Entercom all-news WBBM 780-AM/WCFS 105.9-FM and longtime radio voice of the Chicago Bears, will receive the Media Award from the Chicagol...
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Feder: Program director David Polk leaving classical music station WFMTAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - David Polk, who rose from intern and production assistant to program director of WFMT 98.7-FM, is leaving the Window to the World Communications classical music station ...