{"id":13501,"date":"2017-02-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=13501"},"modified":"2017-02-27T07:10:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:10:33","slug":"robservations-traffic-tie-jam-bart-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/02\/27\/robservations-traffic-tie-jam-bart-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Traffic tie-up could jam Bart Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Bart Shore<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Bart Shore,<\/strong> who\u2019s been Chicago radio\u2019s premier voice of traffic for 17 years, soon may be off top-rated CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9.<\/a> Starting April 1, CBS Radio is dropping its affiliation with iHeartMedia\u2019s Total Traffic Network and launching<\/a> its own traffic service with USTN (formerly Radiate Media). The catch is that Shore and other key voices of traffic and sports on WBBM Newsradio (including Kris Habermehl, Mike Pries, Bonnie Greene, George Ofman, Rick Gregg<\/strong> and Dave Kerner<\/strong>) are locked into contracts with Total Traffic Network. CBS Radio has begun staffing their positions under new traffic operations chief Kevin Scott.<\/strong> No comment from CBS Radio bosses here.<\/p>\n

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Shari Davis Noland<\/p><\/div>\n

Shari Davis Noland<\/strong> signs on Monday as executive editor of the Chicago Defender,<\/a> the historic African-American weekly newspaper. The top editorial job at the paper has been open since Kai EL' Zabar<\/strong> resigned last December along with publisher Cheryl Mainor.<\/strong> Noland, who holds journalism degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Missouri, most recently was director of communications for the Oak Park Education Foundation. She also was chief content and technology officer for Urban Ministries. Noland is married to Terry Noland,<\/strong> executive editor of Chicago magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n

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CAN TV<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim McVane,<\/strong> deputy commissioner for Chicago\u2019s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, has been named executive director of Chicago Access Network Television,<\/a>\u00a0the independent nonprofit agency overseeing the city\u2019s five local cable channels. He succeeds Barbara Popovic,<\/strong> who retired at the end of 2016 after 30 years at CAN TV. McVane, whose appointment is effective March 6, previously was acting administrator and acting chairman of the Chicago Cable Commission, and assistant administrator for Chicago\u2019s Office of Cable Communications. \u201cIn unison with our superlative board of directors and incomparably well-qualified professional staff, I look forward to extending and elevating our mission in the spirit of public service,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Rachel Arndt<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s another Arndt on the payroll of Crain Communications. Rachel Arndt<\/strong> has been hired as a general assignment reporter for Modern Healthcare, <\/a>the company\u2019s healthcare business magazine, based in Chicago. With a master\u2019s degree in nonfiction and poetry from the University of Iowa and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Brown University, she previously worked for McSweeney\u2019s Poetry Series, 511 Capital and Popular Mechanics. Arndt\u2019s father is Michael Arndt,<\/strong> editor of Crain\u2019s Chicago Business.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dennis Welsh<\/p><\/div>\n

There was pizza all around Thursday at WFLD-Channel 32<\/a> as the Fox-owned station celebrated reaching one million fans on its Facebook page. <\/a>\u201cWe started the mission to become the most digitally engaged station in Chicago nearly four years ago,\u201d Dennis Welsh,<\/strong> general manager of Fox 32, wrote in a memo to staff. \u201cWe started with 17,000 Facebook fans, which was the least Facebook fans of any station in Chicago (fifth place) and the least Facebook fans of any Fox station in the Fox Owned and Operated station group (17th place). We now have the second most Facebook fans in Chicago [ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7<\/a> has 1.8 million], and are now the eighth station in the Fox station group to reach the 'one million' fan mark. We have really been gaining momentum over the past few months so more milestones are just ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NAB<\/p><\/div>\n

Four Chicago radio stations are up for top honors for community service from the National Association of Broadcasters. Among 50 finalists announced last week for the 30th annual NAB Crystal Radio Awards <\/a>are CBS Radio classic hits WJMK FM 104.3<\/a> and country WUSN FM 99.5,<\/a> and Hubbard Radio adult contemporary WSHE FM 100.3<\/a> and hot adult-contemporary WTMX FM 101.9.<\/a> Winner will be announced April 25 at the NAB Radio Luncheon in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Ruth Ratny<\/p><\/div>\n

Ruth Ratny<\/strong> was one of a kind \u2014 and a genuine force of nature. As founding editor and publisher of Screen magazine<\/a> and ReelChicago.com, <\/a>she forged a community of Chicago\u2019s film and commercial production industry and championed the business tirelessly for nearly 40 years. Her passing last week was hailed<\/a> as the end of an era. Ratny, who continuing writing for her website right up until February 10, died of heart failure at 89, according to Maureen O\u2019Donnell\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0fine\u00a0obituary<\/a> in the Sun-Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Bart Shore, who\u2019s been Chicago radio\u2019s premier voice of traffic for 17 years, soon may be off top-rated CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9. Starting April 1, CBS Radio is dropping its affiliation with iHeartMedia\u2019s Total Traffic Network and launching its own traffic service with USTN (formerly Radiate... 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\/13501"}],"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=13501"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13517,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}