Terry Savage
Terry Savage, the nationally known expert on personal finance, the stock market and the economy, is the latest veteran of the Sun-Times to be welcomed inside Tribune Tower.
The former Sun-Times columnist and author this week was added to the roster of contributors to the Tribune Content Agency, the syndication and licensing unit of Tribune Publishing. Continue reading
Dionne Miller
It’s official: Dionne Miller is joining WLS-Channel 7 as weekend sports anchor — and the first woman on the ABC-owned station’s sports staff.
Confirming a report here earlier this month, ABC 7 announced Miller’s hiring Thursday in a memo to the staff. She starts Monday. Continue reading
Ashley Fields
The potentially game-changing addition of Cubs broadcasts to the WBBM AM 780 lineup also brings a new marketing and promotions team to the top-rated CBS Radio all-news station.
Ashley Fields has been promoted to marketing director of WBBM Newsradio, simulcast partner WCFS FM 105.9 and sports/talk WSCR AM 670. She also will oversee integrated marketing and non-tradition revenue efforts for Cubs baseball and Bears football on WBBM Newsradio and White Sox baseball on the Score.
Fields, who joined CBS Radio Chicago as a sales account executive out of Northwestern University graduate school, most recently has been director of marketing at the Score. Continue reading
Karen Lewis
With Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis sidelined by illness, the race for mayor of Chicago just got a whole lot less interesting.
What had been shaping up to be to an epic battle against a seemingly vulnerable Mayor Rahm Emanuel suddenly may have turned into a snoozer. Continue reading
Ron Magers and Roe Conn
The sudden demise of Roe Conn and Richard Roeper’s afternoon show on WLS AM 890 last week also brought an end to Ron Magers’ daily in-studio appearances on the Cumulus Media news/talk station.
For more than 16 years, the Chicago television news legend was a star attraction with Conn and his various co-hosts, often providing the best half-hour of conversation in all of radio. But with the latest turn of events, Magers says he’s through with radio and plans to focus on his duties as 5 and 10 p.m. news anchor at top-rated ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Continue reading
Carol Marin
Newsrooms generally cheer when their exclusives get picked up and credited by others. But in the case of a recent WMAQ-Channel 5 investigative report, the NBC-owned station isn’t happy about how it’s being used at all.
At issue is a 30-second commercial that began airing throughout Illinois Friday for Democratic Governor Pat Quinn in his campaign for reelection against Republican challenger Bruce Rauner. The commercial excerpts an NBC 5 report about Rauner and includes the voice of political editor Carol Marin. Continue reading
Corey McPherrin and Darlene Hill
A year ago it looked like Corey McPherrin’s days were numbered at WFLD-Channel 32. Now the Fox-owned station is turning to him to help save its tanking morning show.
After stumbling around with a bunch of relatively inexperienced newcomers, Fox 32 just put two familiar faces front and center on “Good Day Chicago.” McPherrin and Darlene Hill, both 20-year veterans of the station, this week were promoted to anchor the show’s 7 to 10 a.m. hours as well as Fox 32's noon newscast Monday through Friday. Continue reading
Erich Mancow Muller
Mancow has left the building. But will he be back?
The cancellation of Erich Mancow Muller’s morning show this week after two years on Fox-owned WPWR-Channel 50 marks the first time in nearly three decades that the former Chicago shock jock is off the air completely. No TV. No radio. Nothing. Continue reading
Steve Dahl
Despite his oft-stated misgivings about the current state of radio, Steve Dahl insists he’s eager to get back on the air to become “part of the daily conversation in Chicago.”
Confirming a report here Tuesday, Dahl said he has signed to host afternoons on Cumulus Media news/talk WLS AM 890, starting November 3. Airing between syndicated talkers Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage, he’ll be on from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Continue reading
Steve Dahl
Six years after he signed off from over-the-air radio, Chicago broadcast legend Steve Dahl is about to make a comeback on WLS AM 890, sources said.
An announcement could come this week that Dahl, 59, will join the Cumulus Media news/talk station as afternoon personality, replacing Roe Conn and Richard Roeper from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday though Friday. If all goes as planned, Dahl would start in early November. Continue reading