{"id":11452,"date":"2016-05-26T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2016-05-26T10:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:26:38","slug":"robservations-you-me-drops-third-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/05\/26\/robservations-you-me-drops-third-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: \u2018You & Me\u2019 loses an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Melissa<\/a>

<\/a> Melissa Forman and Jeanne Sparrow<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Starting next week, there\u2019ll be less of \u201cYou & Me\u201d<\/a> on WCIU-Channel 26. <\/a>Weigel Broadcasting is trimming its weekday morning talk-and-entertainment show from three hours to two. \u201cYou & Me\u201d will air from 6 to 8 a.m., with the syndicated \u201cDr. Phil\u201d returning to the 8 a.m. slot. The move is part of an effort to realign programming on The U in advance of the fall season, according to Steve Farber,<\/strong> senior vice president of operations at Weigel Broadcasting. Hosted by former Chicago radio personalities Melissa Forman<\/strong> and Jeanne Sparrow,<\/strong> \u201cYou & Me\u201d debuted in 2009 and expanded<\/a> to three hours in 2014. In the May Nielsen sweep, the show averaged a 0.2 rating (6,950 households) \u2014 half the audience it had two years ago.<\/p>\n

\"Doug<\/a>

Doug Banks<\/p><\/div>\n

Doug Banks<\/strong> was posthumously inducted Saturday in the Illinois Broadcasters Association<\/a> Hall of Fame. Marv Dyson,<\/strong> former president and general manager of WGCI FM 107.5 and WVAZ FM 102.7, presented the award to Banks\u2019s wife, Wendy Banks,<\/strong> at the iHeartMedia Chicago celebration of the beloved broadcast star at the Harold Washington Cultural Center in Bronzeville. Calling Banks \u201cthe best on air personality to ever crack a mic on radio in Chicago,\u201d Dyson said: \u201cWhen Doug was on, it was the best part of our day.\u00a0When Doug was serious we paid attention, when Doug was funny we laughed, when Doug asked us to help we helped, and when Doug said he loved us we felt the love \u2014 and it was real.\u201d Banks died April 11 of complications from diabetes at 57.<\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/a>

Alan Krashesky<\/p><\/div>\n

Thirty-four years in the making, the Alan Krashesky<\/strong> Era begins today at WLS-Channel 7.<\/a> Following the retirement<\/a>\u00a0of Ron Magers,<\/strong> Krashesky, 55, ascends to the top job at the ABC-owned station, co-anchoring with Cheryl Burton<\/strong> at 5 p.m. and Kathy Brock<\/strong> at 6 and 10 p.m. A Philadelphia native and graduate of Ithaca College, Krashesky joined ABC 7 in 1982 as a reporter from KTBC, then a CBS affiliate in Austin, Texas. He became the first anchor of ABC 7\u2019s weekday morning newscast in 1989, moved up to anchor the 5 p.m. newscast in 1994 and later shifted to the 4 and 6 p.m. newscasts. Rob Elgas<\/strong> succeeds <\/a>Krashesky on the 4 p.m. newscast alongside Linda Yu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Dan<\/a>

Dan Fabian<\/p><\/div>\n

Seven more veterans of Tribune Media news\/talk WGN AM 720 <\/a>will be enshrined Friday in the WGN Walk of Fame<\/a> outside the station\u2019s Tribune Tower studios at 435 North Michigan Avenue. This year\u2019s inductees are:\u00a0Max Armstrong,<\/strong> agriculture and business reporter; Floyd Brown,<\/strong> announcer and program host; Jim Carollo,<\/strong> director of engineering; Dan Fabian,\u00a0<\/strong>program director and vice president\/general manager; Marilyn Miller,<\/strong> producer of Wally Phillips\u2019s<\/strong> morning show; Tom Petersen,<\/strong> news director and morning news anchor; and Dean Richards,<\/strong> program host, entertainment reporter and critic. Ceremonies are open to the public and will be broadcast live on WGN, starting at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

\"Bill<\/a>

Bill Kurtis<\/p><\/div>\n

Bill Kurtis<\/strong> narrates \u201cHeroes on Deck: World War II on Lake Michigan,\u201d a one-hour documentary about the training of U.S. Navy pilots here in the 1940s and efforts to recover their lost planes from the bottom of the lake today. It premieres at 9 p.m. Thursday on WTTW-Channel 11 <\/a>(with a repeat at 6 p.m. Sunday). Produced by John Davies<\/strong> and Harvey Moshman,<\/strong> the documentary is a greatly expanded and updated version of \u201cTop Guns of \u201943,\u201d a half-hour special they produced in 1988 for the Window to the World Communications station. Just in time for Memorial Day, it\u2019s a fascinating contribution to World War II history \u2014 and Chicago\u2019s largely forgotten role.<\/p>\n

\"Keith<\/a>

Keith Warner<\/p><\/div>\n

Broadcast colleagues are mourning the loss of Keith Warner,<\/strong> a longtime Chicago radio engineer who took medical leave in 2012 as chief engineer of former Hubbard Radio adult contemporary WILV (now WSHE FM 100.3<\/a>). Warner, who was 60, died Tuesday in Sumter County, Florida, after a long battle with leukemia. A Northwest Side native and graduate of Lane Tech High School, he worked for a variety of Chicago stations over several decades. Visitation will be June 2 at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 West Algonquin Road in Algonquin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Starting next week, there\u2019ll be less of \u201cYou & Me\u201d on WCIU-Channel 26. Weigel Broadcasting is trimming its weekday morning talk-and-entertainment show from three hours to two. \u201cYou & Me\u201d will air from 6 to 8 a.m., with the syndicated \u201cDr. Phil\u201d returning to the 8 a.m. slot. The move... 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\/11452"}],"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=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11466,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions\/11466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}