Entertainment Columns
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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...
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Constable: Ditka was there, but again it's Cubs at Wrigley in OctoberOct 09, 2017 1:00 am - Once upon a time, October in Wrigley Field meant baseball had yielded to football and fans could cheer as Chicago Bears' rumbling tight-end Mike Ditka bounced off defend...
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Feder: Kevin Cross named content boss at NBC Sports ChicagoOct 06, 2017 1:00 am - Kevin Cross, who began his career in sports broadcasting nearly 25 years ago as a producer for the former SportsChannel, was promoted Thursday to vice president of conte...