{"id":15177,"date":"2017-08-15T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2017-08-15T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:01:21","slug":"robservations-kathy-hart-changes-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/08\/15\/robservations-kathy-hart-changes-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Missing from radiothon, Kathy Hart changes agents again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Eric & Kathy's Kids<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Kathy Hart<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cEric & Kathy\u2019s Kids,\u201d<\/a> the 18th annual radiothon to benefit Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital, is under way all this week \u2014 with one thing missing: Kathy Hart.<\/strong> It\u2019s the latest weirdness associated with Hart\u2019s ongoing absence from the top-rated morning show she co-hosts with Eric Ferguson<\/strong> on Hubbard Media hot adult-contemporary WTMX FM 101.9.<\/a> (Don\u2019t even ask about the \u201cEric & Kathy Charity Golf Outing\u201d or the \u201cEric & Kathy Food Truck Festival.\u201d) Talks between Hubbard and Hart to resolve the situation<\/a> once and for all apparently were reset by another change of agents. Attorney Steve Mandell<\/strong> confirmed that he now represents Hart, who earlier severed ties with Todd Musburger<\/strong> (who was her agent for many years) and later with Lisa Miller.<\/strong> Mandell declined further comment. Hart has been out of The Mix since late April.<\/p>\n

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Prudential Plaza<\/p><\/div>\n

Tronc <\/a>officials declined to comment on a report<\/a> in their own Chicago Tribune<\/a> that the company plans to move to Prudential Plaza when it leaves Tribune Tower next year. According to the report, the Tribune is expected to occupy the second, third and fourth floors of One Prudential Plaza at 130 East Randolph Street, with tronc executives ensconced on the top floors of the 41-story building overlooking Millennium Park. (Chicagoans of a certain age remember when the transmitter for Tribune-owned WGN-Channel 9 was located atop the Prudential Building.) The move was prompted by the sale of the Gothic landmark Tribune Tower at 435 North Michigan Avenue to CIM Group for redevelopment. Tribune Media and WGN AM 720 earlier announced plans to move to 303 East Wacker Drive.<\/p>\n

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Walt Sabo<\/p><\/div>\n

Calling himself \u201cWalter Sterling\u201d on the air, veteran broadcast consultant Walt Sabo<\/strong> will host a weekly radio talk show syndicated by Westwood One, starting this weekend. From studios in Philadelphia, \u201cSterling on Sunday\u201d will air live from 9 p.m. to midnight Sundays on Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS AM 890.<\/a> \u201c\u2018Sterling on Sundays\u2019 transitions the listener into the week with conversation about troubles at work, celebrity gossip and why the engine light never goes out,\u201d Sabo said in a statement. Effective this weekend, WLS will move Stephanie Trussell<\/strong> to 1 to 3 p.m. Saturdays.<\/p>\n

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Jim Kirk<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim Kirk,<\/strong> who resigned <\/a>Friday as publisher and editor of the Sun-Times, <\/a>wasn\u2019t expected to start his new job with tronc until Wednesday. But on Monday he turned up at the Los Angeles Times in his role as senior vice president of strategic initiatives. Although he\u2019ll continue to be based in Chicago, Kirk is expected to work in each of tronc's nine markets to accelerate the company\u2019s digital growth. Until a new top editor for the Sun-Times is named, managing editor Chris Fusco<\/strong> will lead the newsroom on an interim basis under CEO Edwin Eisendrath.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Walter Podrazik<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe Summer of Love: Capturing the Times\u201d<\/a> will be explored in a special program Wednesday at the Museum of Broadcast Communications,<\/a> 360 North State Street. Museum curator Walter Podrazik,<\/strong> noted pop-culture author and historian, will lead a panel on the highs and lows of the 1967 youth phenomenon and the challenges of chronicling it. Panelists will include Steve Jones,<\/strong> professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Victoria Pichla Luz,<\/strong> producer of Fandom Fest 2017, and Vivek Tiwary,<\/strong> author of The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: \u201cEric & Kathy\u2019s Kids,\u201d the 18th annual radiothon to benefit Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital, is under way all this week \u2014 with one thing missing: Kathy Hart. It\u2019s the latest weirdness associated with Hart\u2019s ongoing absence from the top-rated morning show she co-hosts with Eric Ferguson on Hubbard Media hot adult-contemporary... 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\/15177"}],"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=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15191,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions\/15191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}