{"id":10568,"date":"2016-02-26T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2016-02-26T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:13:08","slug":"robservations-wgn-renews-wildcats-dave-eanet-for-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/02\/26\/robservations-wgn-renews-wildcats-dave-eanet-for-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: WGN renews Wildcats, Dave Eanet for four years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dave<\/a>

<\/a> Dave Eanet<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

WGN AM 720<\/a> will continue to be the broadcast home of Northwestern University<\/a> football and men\u2019s basketball through the 2019-20 season, under a four-year renewal to be announced Friday. The Tribune Media news\/talk station also just signed the great\u00a0Dave Eanet<\/strong> to a new four-year contract to continue as WGN sports director and the voice of the Wildcats. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to present Northwestern basketball and football, anchored by Dave \u2018Mr. Cat\u2019 Eanet,\u201d Jimmy de Castro,<\/strong> president and general manager of WGN, said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to bringing our listeners the excitement of Chicago\u2019s Big Ten team in the years to come.\u201d Eanet, a graduate of Northwestern\u2019s Medill School of Journalism, has been the play-by-play voice of Wildcat Football since 1990 and Wildcat Basketball since 1996. He\u2019s also sports anchor on\u00a0Steve Cochran\u2019s<\/strong> WGN morning show.<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer<\/a>

Jennifer White<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWeekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon<\/strong>\u201d will expand to three hours \u2014 airing from 7 to 10 a.m Saturdays \u2014 as part of a revamped programming lineup on Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5.<\/a> The move will push \u201cWait, Wait . . . Don\u2019t Tell Me\u201d to 10 a.m. and \u201cThis American Life\u201d to 11 a.m. Among numerous shows leaving the air will be \u201cThe Best of Car Talk,\u201d \u201cCommonwealth Club,\u201d \u201cThe Vinyl Cafe\u201d and \u201cIdeas.\u201d You\u2019ll need a road map \u2014 or at least a copy of the new schedule<\/a> \u2014 to figure out where everything is going. New to WBEZ is anchor\/host Jennifer White,<\/strong> former host of Michigan Radio's <\/a>afternoon news magazine. A Detroit native and University of Michigan graduate, White worked at Michigan Public Media since 1999.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/a>

Paul Agase<\/p><\/div>\n

Tim Pohlman,<\/strong> who took over<\/a> last month as senior vice president and market manager for CBS Radio Chicago, <\/a>has named two longtime local radio executives to head sales operations for the seven-station group. Paul Agase,<\/strong> who most recently was general sales manager of WBBM FM 96.3, WJMK FM 104.3 and WUSN FM 99.5, has been promoted to director of music sales, adding WXRT FM 93.1. John Cravens,<\/strong> who most recently was vice president and general manager of ESPN WMVP AM 1000, was named director of news and sports sales, over WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9 and WSCR AM 670. The move essentially splits the job previously held by Mark Day,<\/strong> former director of sales under previous market manager Rod Zimmerman.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a>

Tom Kent<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s another Chicago radio comeback for Tom Kent,<\/strong> who first hosted weekends and worked as a programming assistant at Top 40 powerhouse WLS AM 890 in the early 1980s. Starting this weekend, \u201cThe Ultimate Party with Tom Kent\u201d<\/a> will air from 6 p.m. to midnight Saturdays on Cumulus Media classic hits WLS FM 94.7.<\/a> Kent hosts the live syndicated show from Cleveland. Over the years he\u2019s also been heard in syndication here on adult contemporary WLIT FM 93.9 and on the former WWYW.<\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/a>

Eddie Einhorn<\/p><\/div>\n

Eddie Einhorn<\/strong> not only was vice chairman of the Chicago White Sox and longtime partner of Jerry Reinsdorf.<\/strong> He also was a true sports media visionary who brought college basketball to television in the 1960s and negotiated baseball\u2019s first billion-dollar television contract. In 1982 he pioneered SportsVision, the first subscription television operation to offer the White Sox, the Chicago Black Hawks, the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Sting on one channel. Einhorn, who was 80, died <\/a>Tuesday in New Jersey from complications following a stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: WGN AM 720 will continue to be the broadcast home of Northwestern University football and men\u2019s basketball through the 2019-20 season, under a four-year renewal to be announced Friday. The Tribune Media news\/talk station also just signed the great\u00a0Dave Eanet to a new four-year contract to continue as WGN sports... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10579,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}