{"id":14625,"date":"2017-06-19T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=14625"},"modified":"2017-06-20T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:04:49","slug":"robservations-eisendrath-bid-sun-times-reader-due-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/06\/19\/robservations-eisendrath-bid-sun-times-reader-due-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Eisendrath confirms bidding for Sun-Times, Reader today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Chicago Sun-Times<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Edwin Eisendrath<\/strong> confirmed Sunday that he will submit a formal offer for the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> and the Chicago Reader<\/a> before the deadline set by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and owner Wrapports Holdings LLC at 5 p.m. Monday. The Chicago Federation of Labor and a consortium of other investors has joined the effort by Eisendrath, an international consultant and former Chicago alderman. With encouragement from the Justice Department, they\u2019re offering an alternative to a plan by Chicago Tribune owner tronc to acquire the daily Sun-Times and weekly Reader, under a letter of intent<\/a> signed last month. Eisendrath declined to comment further or identify other investors in his group.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The 17th annual Eric & Kathy Charity Golf Outing <\/a>last Thursday went off without a hitch \u2014 and without namesake Kathy Hart.<\/strong> Host Eric Ferguson<\/strong> explained to the crowd at Willow Crest Golf Club that his partner was on \u201cunexpected leave\u201d and had not been heard from, adding: \u201dThere's nothing we can really say because we don't know and haven't been told.\u201d It was the latest wrinkle in Hart\u2019s absence from the top-rated morning show on Hubbard Radio hot adult-contemporary WTMX FM 101.9<\/a> since late April. What else is new? Ferguson\u2019s contract gives him every Friday off during the summer \u2014 to play golf.<\/p>\n

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

There will be more of Michigan Avenue <\/a>magazine to go around next year. The upscale monthly will return to publishing eight issues a year in 2018 (after cutting back to six in 2016). The move coincides with the acquisition<\/a> of parent company GreenGale Publishing by Modern Luxury, owner of CS (Chicago Social). \u201cAs we enter our 10th year of publishing Michigan Avenue magazine, we'll be more competitive than ever,\u201d said publisher Dan Uslan.<\/strong> \u201cI feel fantastic that Modern Luxury is investing back into the brand with increased frequency and more than doubling the size of our team. We're making magazines great again!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Craig Wall<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s official: Craig Wall<\/strong> starts Monday on the political beat for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, <\/a>confirming an earlier report here. <\/a>Wall, who spent 19 years as a general assignment reporter and substitute news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32,<\/a> replaces Charles Thomas,<\/strong> who retired last February as ABC 7\u2019s political reporter. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have a reporter of Craig\u2019s caliber joining our team and continuing our fine legacy of political reporting,\u201d Jennifer Graves,<\/strong> vice president and news director of ABC 7, told staffers in an email. \u201cHe\u2019s equally excited to join Eyewitness News and sink his teeth into the political beat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kristin Byrne<\/p><\/div>\n

Another new face turning up on ABC 7 Monday is Kristin Byrne,<\/strong> who\u2019ll be filling in as morning traffic reporter while Roz Varon<\/strong> is on vacation. (Reporter Diane Pathieu<\/strong> also will continue to fill in for Varon from time to time.) Until last January Byrne had been traffic reporter for WEWS, the ABC affiliate in Cleveland. A Miami native and graduate of Florida International University, she previously worked at WBAY, the ABC affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Byrne told friends on Facebook: <\/a>\u201cI'm super excited to work with and learn from the BEST in the business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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George Collias<\/p><\/div>\n

Funeral services will be Tuesday for George Collias,<\/strong> founder and president of Chicago-based Century Broadcasting, which owned radio stations in nine cities. Collias died last Tuesday in north suburban Deerfield at 89. With first partner Howard Grafman,<\/strong> Collias formed Century Broadcasting in 1964 and amassed an empire of major market FM stations. The company\u2019s last station, Chicago\u2019s WPNT (now WSHE FM 100.3<\/a>), sold for $77 million in 1996. Grafman died in 2016. Collias, a Chicago native and former U.S. Army paratrooper, graduated from Northwestern University and Loyola University School of Law.<\/p>\n

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