Jack Diamond
Move over, Brant Miller: Jack Diamond is on his way.
Diamond, 60, a longtime Washington, D.C., radio personality, is expected to be named morning host at WLS FM 94.7. Insiders said he’ll start Monday on the Cumulus Media classic hits station, succeeding Miller from 5:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays. Continue reading
Newcity is about to come out with its annual Best of Chicago issue, and once again editor and publisher Brian Hieggelke is rocking the local media boat.
Who else but Hieggelke would proclaim the besieged Sun-Times “best local daily newspaper,” declare an architecture critic “best Chicago news columnist” or project a landslide election for governor next week? Continue reading
Ellen Warren
The incomparable Ellen Warren, a Hall of Fame journalist whose insight and flair graced the pages of three Chicago newspapers, is retiring after more than two decades as senior correspondent and columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Friday will be Warren’s last day at the Tribune, culminating a reporting career that stretched from Chicago City Hall to the White House and from the presidential campaign trail to the Middle East. Continue reading
Chicago Sun-Times
Will a new national strategy help save Chicago's money-losing No. 2 local newspaper?
The struggling parent company of the Sun-Times is banking its future on the creation of a network of websites and mobile apps delivering content from multiple sources to 70 cities across the country. Continue reading
Thirty-two years after Doug Banks began broadcasting in Chicago, he’s still riding high in the ratings.
Nielsen Audio figures released Monday for the period from September 11 to October 8 again give Banks the top spot for his syndicated afternoon show on iHeartMedia urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7. That’s the same frequency where it all began for Banks in 1982 under the call letters WBMX. Continue reading
Interest in the fortunes of the Bears helped propel Chicago’s leading sports/talk station into the top 10 among morning radio shows in the latest monthly ratings released Monday.
Nielsen Audio figures for September 11 to October 8 showed Mike Mulligan and Brian Hanley, the morning team on CBS Radio WSCR AM 670, in seventh place among all listeners — up from 14th the previous month. It was the Score's first top-10 showing since May. Continue reading
Cindy Gatziolis
If you ever attended the Chicago Blues Festival, Taste of Chicago or the Air & Water Show, you knew the work of Cindy Gatziolis. And if you ever listened to Larry Lujack, Wally Phillips, Fred Winston, Steve Dahl or Jonathon Brandmeier, you knew it too.
Gatziolis, who worked closely with Chicago’s biggest radio personalities for two decades before leading the promotion of the city’s most popular special events, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. She was 56. Continue reading
A version of this post first appeared on October 11, 2012.
They all happened in Chicago and, in one way or another, they all changed the way people looked at television. In chronological order, here’s my list of 10 pivotal events in the annals of American television that took place here. Continue reading
Megan Reed
Megan Reed, a 28-year veteran of Chicago radio, is stepping aside as midday personality at WILV FM 100.3 while she battles cancer and prepares to undergo brain surgery.
Reed, 50, said Thursday she recently was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that caused tumors in the brain. Surgery and radiation are scheduled for next week. Continue reading
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite will be back on TV. And I for one couldn’t be happier.
That’s the headline as far as I’m concerned out of news this week that CBS is launching a new digital network called Decades in partnership with Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting. Continue reading
