Irv Kupcinet

Ten things to look for on the media beat in the coming year:

• Roe Conn will make a radio comeback — in all likelihood as afternoon drive host on WGN AM 720.

• Terrell Brown will succeed Hosea Sanders as anchor of ABC 7 Eyewitness News This Morning on January 12.

• New morning shows will debut on WGCI FM 107.5, WLS AM 890 and WIND AM 560. Chicago Cubs baseball broadcasts will debut on WBBM AM 780 (after 90 years on WGN AM 720) and on ABC 7 (for the first time since 1949).

• Weigel Broadcasting will start up ABC 7 Eyewitness News on WCIU, The U at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday on January 12 and launch its first radio station at 87.7 FM on February 1.

• New managing editors will be appointed at the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5.

• Splash, the Sun-Times Sunday supplement, will convert to a glossy magazine on January 11 and shift from weekly publication to 32 times a year.

• With its January issue, Today’s Chicago Woman will cease publication after 32 years.

• The Chicago Auto Show will move to ABC 7 and Univision 66 in February after 16 years on NBC 5 and Telemundo 44.

• Ten local television veterans — Fahey Flynn, Bob Sirott, Larry Wert, Paul Meincke, Howard Sudberry, Michael Dukewich, Richard “Ike” Isaac, Pam Grimes, and Carl and Alison Ebert — will be inducted in the Silver Circle of the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in May.

• Kathy Brock will mark 25 years at ABC 7, Allison Rosati will mark 25 years at NBC 5, and Jay Levine will mark 25 years at CBS 2.