Jonathon Brandmeier

One hundred radio stations across the country will begin airing Jonathon Brandmeier’s new Chicago-based syndicated talk show, starting Monday.

Westwood One announced it has signed 100 affiliates for the show, which premiered locally last week on Cumulus Media news/talk WLS AM 890. The team of John Kass and Lauren Cohn previously aired in the time period here. Continue reading →

Eddie Schwartz

Chicago late-night radio legends Eddie Schwartz, Franklyn MacCormack and the husband-and-wife team of Steve King and Johnnie Putman will be among this year’s Walk of Fame honorees at WGN AM 720.

The Tribune Media news/talk station announced 10 more inductees Friday to be enshrined with bronze plaques embedded outside the showcase studio at 435 North Michigan Avenue. Continue reading →

Hosea Sanders, Jim Rose, Cheryl Scott and Linda Yu

Question: When is a WLS-Channel 7 newscast in last place? Answer: When it’s not airing on WLS-Channel 7.

For the first time in three decades or more, a newscast produced by Chicago’s top-rated ABC-owned station is bringing up the rear in the Nielsens. That’s because it’s airing on Weigel Broadcasting WCIU-Channel 26. Continue reading →

Aiyana Cristal

Two prominent personalities from CBS Radio sports/talk WSCR AM 670 have apologized for an exchange of tweets that many viewed as sexist and degrading toward a female sportscaster from Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

Score midday co-host Matt Spiegel and afternoon co-host Dan Bernstein were widely criticized on social media for a series of crude comments Wednesday about the physical attributes of Comcast SportsNet anchor/reporter Aiyana Cristal. Continue reading →

Mandy Patinkin

Comcast SportsNet Chicago will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2005 World Series Championship season of the Chicago White Sox with the debut of an original 90-minute documentary.

“Believe: The Story of the 2005 Chicago White Sox,” featuring interviews with players, coaches, execs and others whose lives were touched by the city’s first Major League Baseball championship in 88 years, will premiere at 7 p.m. April 12 on the regional sports network. Continue reading →

John Drury, Jerry Taft, Diann Burns and Mark Giangreco

Over his 40-year career as an anchorman in Chicago, John Drury was never known as a controversial figure. His warm demeanor and unruffled delivery belied a sharp-edged competitiveness that viewers rarely saw.

But one Saturday afternoon 25 years ago, the legendary broadcaster let his guard down and went on the offensive against critics in the print media. Editors of the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, Drury charged, were guilty of many of the excesses they attack in television news. Continue reading →

Oswaldo Diaz

Two of Chicago’s leading Spanish-language radio stations have added new drive-time shows to their lineups, as part of a multifaceted syndication agreement between Univision Local Media and Entravision Communications.

The addition earlier this month of “El Show de Erazno y La Chokolata” to afternoons on regional Mexican WOJO FM 105.1 and "El Show de Alex 'El Genio' Lucas” to mornings on adult contemporary WPPN FM 106.7 reflects the continued deployment of syndicated programming on both Univision Radio stations. Continue reading →

Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson

Salem Media news/talk WIND AM 560 unveiled a new lineup Tuesday, officially installing Dan Proft as morning host in place of Big John Howell. It confirms a move Proft announced himself more than a month ago.

The Republican political commentator, consultant and onetime gubernatorial candidate has been filling in alongside co-host Amy Jacobson since January when Howell segued to mornings at Cumulus Media news/talk WLS AM 890. Proft previously hosted co-mornings with Bruce Wolf at WLS. Continue reading →

Lara Weber

Lara Weber, a versatile and innovative editor at the Chicago Tribune for more than two decades, has been appointed to the editorial board of the newspaper.

Bruce Dold, editorial page editor of the Tribune, announced Friday that Weber would have a key role on the board as a writer and editor, focusing on the selection and editing of essays, columns, letters and other content for the commentary pages and online opinion section. Continue reading →

Elroy Smith

Elroy Smith, the former Chicago radio programmer who led two urban stations to the top of the ratings, won’t be making a comeback here after all.

Eight months after he announced plans to pay Calvary Radio Network a record $4.6 million for a 10-watt translator atop Willis Tower, the deal has been scrapped. “I wanted you to know that Calvary Radio Network and I have mutually agreed to terminate the pending sale of translator W264BF Chicago,” Smith wrote in an email Saturday. Continue reading →