Tag: Media
Media: May 2019
Jim OāDonnell has been off and on the media beat for Chicago area newspapers for four decades. As of a few months ago, heās back on, and heās landed at a familiar place, The Daily Herald. āThatās where my career started,ā he says, āand now Iām doing a sports and media column thanks to a […]
Media: April 2019
If you listen to the veterans of the radio world, you begin to hear a few common themes. One is that there is a dearth of young talent. Another is that the young talent that has emerged doesnāt know and appreciate radio history, and are therefore unappreciative of what radio was and what it can […]
Media: March 2019
When WDRVās Sherman and Tingle were first put together as a team more than a decade ago, it wasnāt exactly considered a long term plan. āI came here from Phoenix to be a part of a show called The Morning Fix which is the show that replaced Mancow on Q-101,ā Steve Tingle explains. āAfter […]
Media: February 2019
Bill Turckās road to his current location, co-hosting Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall on Sunday afternoons (1-3pm) on WGCO is one of the most interesting non-traditional radio roads ever traveled. Twenty plus years ago, he was literally in the most dangerous place in the world. āI arrived in Sarajevo just after Susan Sontag […]
Media: January 2019
Dave Fogel has now been in the saddle as the morning man at WLS for a year. The return to his former station seemed to be destined. āI was doing mornings at WJMK, and CBS sold to Entercom out of the blue, a total surprise, and they changed the format overnight. I was out of […]
Media: August 2018
WDRV disc jockey Byrd is a rock jock out of central casting. He looks and sounds the part so much that you get the feeling if there was ever an injury to a band member of any group he was introducing on stage any given night, Byrd could fill in at the drop of a […]
Media: May 2018
If youāre a big fan of WFLD-TV News (Fox 32) in Chicago, you might have noticed that their ace investigative reporter Dane Placko hasnāt been on the air for about a month. Donāt worry. He isnāt the victim of budget cuts. He hasnāt been demoted. He didnāt get hired away by the networks. He just […]
Media: December 2017
Itās become a year-end tradition in this space to honor some of the broadcasters we lost in the past calendar year. All of them touched countless lives in the Chicago area, maybe even your own. The Chicago media community is diminished by their absence. JOE COLLINSĀ ā Collins was a veteran traffic reporter in Chicago best […]
December 2016: Media
WBBM-News Radioās Josh Liss grew up in Skokie, and there was one voice that had a real impact on his career direction, though it didnāt manifest itself for a few years. āHarry Caray was the big reason I wanted to do sports broadcasting,ā he says. āI didnāt have a dad to take me to […]
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