Entertainment Columns
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Feder: Tribune Media takeover by Sinclair now in FCC's handsOct 20, 2017 1:00 am - The Chicago-based parent company of WGN-Channel 9 and WGN 720 AM moved closer to its takeover by Sinclair Broadcast Group when stockholders of Tribune Media voted overwh...
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Arlington Heights couple continues Halloween tradition despite illnessOct 20, 2017 1:00 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com Since the start of the millennium, Michael Podlin and TammySue Margalit have turned their Arlington Heights home into a scar...
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'Beautiful music' radio veteran Darrel Peters of Barrington dies at 84Oct 19, 2017 1:00 am - Darrel Peters, whose name was once synonymous with "beautiful music" on Chicago radio, died Tuesday in Barrington. He was 84. A Chicago native and prominent broadcast ex...
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Feder: About a half dozen jobs cut at ABC 7, sources sayOct 18, 2017 1:00 am - Robservations: Sources say ABC 7 has cut "about half a dozen" jobs as part of a restructuring and reallocation of resources throughout Disney/ABC Television Group. Chica...
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Feder: Richard Roeper leaving Fox 32's 'Good Day Chicago'Oct 18, 2017 1:00 am - Veteran Chicago journalist Richard Roeper has signed off after two years as a co-host and featured contributor to "Good Day Chicago," the weekday morning news show on Fo...
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Feder: Veteran reporter Darlene Hill MIA at Fox 32Oct 17, 2017 1:00 am - Darlene Hill, reporter at WFLD-Channel 32, has been missing from “Good Day Chicago” broadcasts without explanation since her contract expired at the end of September. Al...
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Feder: WBBM Newsradio to beam from Bloomingdale?Oct 16, 2017 1:00 am - Could Chicago's top-rated AM radio station be giving up its 50,000-watt broadcasting power? That may be the result if CBS Radio moves the antenna of all-news WBBM 780 AM...
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Feder: Chicago native Tia Ewing joins WFLD's "Good Day Chicago"Oct 12, 2017 1:00 am - Chicago native Tia Ewing joined WFLD's "Good Day Chicago" as a freelance reporter, Robert Feder writes. Also, ProPublica Illinois, the independent, nonprofit investigati...
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Feder: Producer Tom Weinberg chronicles perilous journeyOct 10, 2017 1:00 am - Tom Weinberg, the veteran Chicago producer who created "Image Union" and founded the Media Burn Independent Video Archive, has a new book out about his life's greatest a...
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Feder: The Drive takes a turn for the betterOct 09, 2017 1:00 am - While all eyes were on hot adult-contemporary WTMX FM 101.9 and the strange saga of Kathy Hart that played out over the summer, another Hubbard Radio Chicago station was...