Tag: Rick Kaempfer
Media: June 2019
No one in this town has been a part of the Chicago media scene longer than WGN-Radioās (and The Chicago Tribuneās) Rick Kogan. He was literally born into it. His parents, Herman and Marilew, were both fixtures in the heyday of Chicagoās print media. They lived the life. They hung out with Chicagoās glitterati. […]
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: December 2018
As 2018 comes to an end and a new year begins, itās time once again to pay tribute to the people who passed away this year. Once again, we lost some of the all-time Chicago greats. Among them, the long-time anchor and reporter Warner Saunders. Saundersā award-winning 29-year stint at NBC-5 in Chicago touched countless […]
Media: November 2018
When Eric Ferguson started working at WTMX (The Mix), the studios had just moved from Skokie to downtown, and they were considered state of the art for their time. That time, unfortunately, was the 90s. Now, he is working in state of the art facilities again–brand new studios that are still under semi-construction. āLike anything […]
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: July 2018
WBMX midday host Diana Steele may be a new voice on the Chicago radio dial, but she isnāt new to radio, and she isnāt new to Chicago. Itās just that her two worlds had never collided like this before, and sheās really enjoying the ride. āIt is the coolest thing on the planet for a […]
Media: June 2018
WSCR (The Score) Morning host Mike Mulligan has the background that Chicago sports fans seem to require. He is one of us. āI grew up on the South Side, and went to school at Quigley, and college at Loyola.ā He also grew up listening to the radio, and he understands our unique market history. āI […]
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: April 2018
I was 23 years old the day I walked into the Loop offices for the first time. After getting rejections from the other rock stations in Chicago (and there were quite a few at the time), I had thrown a Hail Mary pass to the biggest of them all, The Loop. I wrote a letter […]
Media: February 2018
When I called Chicago radio legend Fred Winston (WLS, WMAQ, WFYR, WCFL, WPNT, WJMK, WLUP, and just about every other station on the dial), the gentleman farmer now living in Southwest Michigan, was in the middle of a project. āYou caught me repairing a doorknob. Thank God for the internet. There are scores of YouTube […]
Media: January 2018
If youāve listened to rock and roll radio for the last three decades, youāve undoubtedly run across the work of Steve Seaver. Heās been rocking Chicago since 1991 at stations like The Blaze, The Loop, and currently The Drive (97.1 FM). Heās one of those rare personalities who can be identified by one name, […]
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 […]
Media: August 2017
Itās been ten years since I wrote my first novel $everance (ENC Press, 2007).Ā That book was a satire about what had become of the media business since the original deregulation in 1996. It was intended to shine a light on the dangers of entrusting so much control over news and information in the hands […]
Media: July 2017
When Len OāKelly was working in Chicago as a music director and disc jockey for radio stations like WJMK (104.3), academia was the furthest thing from his mind. At the time he was a college dropout and working in one of the top markets in the country. He thought heād be doing that the rest […]
Recent Comments