Ted Cox
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Salad days for Mr. MacAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Dare I suggest that Dan McNeil has attained a calm maturity? The host of the self-proclaimed "afternoon saloon" on WMVP 1000-AM is never going to be accused of being mel...
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White House correspondent Helen Thomas finally gets her dueAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - At a time when United Press International was struggling to survive - sort of foreshadowing the fate of journalism to come in that regard - Helen Thomas was the one thin...
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NBC caught off guard when Olympics lives up to the hypeAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The problem with NBC's multichannel, round-the-clock, pull-out-all-the-stops Olympic coverage is it leaves the network's announcers nowhere to go when an event actually ...
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Your guide to watching the gamesAug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Are you ready for more Summer Olympics than ever before on TV? And yes, I mean more than ever before, combined. NBC is planning to put its various TV networks, cable cha...
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What Olympics sports are on where and when?Aug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Here's a quick scan of NBC's broadcast, cable and Internet outlets and what they'll specialize in and when. NBC WMAQ Channel 5 The biggest events of the games will be he...
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PBS' 'P.O.V.' Cashes in with timeless profileAug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - PBS' determinedly idiosyncratic "P.O.V." series goes 40 years into the past today to unearth a documentary about a determinedly idiosyncratic artist, "Johnny Cash: The M...
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Danimal does middays on WSCRJul 31, 2008 11:00 pm - WSCR 670-AM filled its schedule in the post-Mike North era by signing Dan Hampton Thursday and naming him co-host of the morning-midday show along with Laurence Holmes. ...
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'Baghdad High' dark but life-affirmingJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - High school is much the same the world over, but if you think it's an unpleasant experience here, try spending your senior year in Baghdad. The new HBO documentary "Bagh...
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'Dr. Horrible' brings TV closer to computer convergenceJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Not long ago, it seemed as if Neil Patrick Harris would never escape the title role of "Doogie Howser, M.D." Now, however, it suddenly seems as if that childhood hit sho...
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Mully & Hanley: Just sportswriters doing what sportswriters doJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - It's all too rare when good things happen to good people, especially in sports media, so permit a fellow ink-stained wretch to cheer the elevation of Mike Mulligan and B...