{"id":15509,"date":"2017-09-19T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15509"},"modified":"2017-09-19T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T20:45:18","slug":"robservations-wycc-signing-off-air-october-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/09\/19\/robservations-wycc-signing-off-air-october-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: WYCC signing off the air October 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> WYCC<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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WYCC<\/p><\/div>\n

After 34 years as the City Colleges of Chicago\u2019s public television station, WYCC-Channel 20<\/a> will be going off the air. But it\u2019s no surprise. The decision was prompted by the sale of its broadcast license in the FCC spectrum auction<\/a> in April. Since then, City Colleges has eliminated most of the station\u2019s staff. Ron Schofield,<\/strong> executive director of WYCC, confirmed in a letter to contributors that the station will \u201ccease broadcasting services\u201d on October 25. \u201cPlease know that you still have an option for PBS and public media programming and we encourage you to tune to WTTW [Channel 11] and visit wttw.com<\/a>,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Mark Giangreco<\/p><\/div>\n

Remember when Mark Giangreco<\/strong> tweeted that President Donald Trump<\/strong> was a \u201ccartoon lunatic\u201d<\/a> and called people who voted for him \u201csimpletons\u201d? For that, the veteran Chicago sports anchor was suspended<\/a> for two weeks without pay in February by ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. <\/a>Last week ESPN anchor Jemele Hill<\/strong> tweeted that Trump was a \"white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself [with] other white supremacists.\" For that, Hill received a reprimand but no suspension or loss of pay. Although both companies are units of Walt Disney Co., clearly their policies aren\u2019t on the same page. Giangreco, who has never spoken out about his suspension, declined to comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Sun-Times<\/p><\/div>\n

With the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> planning to pack up and move to the West Loop in November, editors are facing a dilemma: Their new digs at 30 North Racine Avenue cannot accommodate the newspaper\u2019s vast archives, so some of the files will be moved to off-site storage. But what to do with more than six decades of movie press kits \u2014 including priceless photos of Hollywood history? (They can\u2019t be sold because the rights belong to the studios.) \u201cI\u2019m not sure that they have any unique value for us,\u201d said Sun-Times CEO Edwin Eisendrath.<\/strong> \u201cIf you know someone who wants them, send them our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dave Ramsey<\/p><\/div>\n

Dave Ramsey,<\/strong> the syndicated financial talk show host, has been tapped to emcee the 29th annual National Radio Hall of Fame<\/a> induction ceremony November 2. The black-tie optional event will be at Chicago\u2019s Museum of Broadcast Communications. In addition to Chicago radio legend John Records Landecker,<\/strong> this year\u2019s inductees include Sean Hannity, Robin Quivers, Tom Barnard, Bobby Bones, Bill Handel, Joseph Field<\/strong> and Bob Sievers.<\/strong> Tickets are available at radiohof.org<\/a>. A commercial-free\u00a0audio\u00a0feed will be streamed online by TuneIn.<\/p>\n

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Alison Laffe<\/p><\/div>\n

Alison Laffe,<\/strong> a former Milwaukee-based advertising executive for Gannett Co., has joined the Chicago Sun-Times as senior vice president of advertising. Laffe most recently was senior director of client services and digital strategy for USA Today Network. She previously was senior director of advertising at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. At the Sun-Times she will report to CEO Edwin Eisendrath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: After 34 years as the City Colleges of Chicago\u2019s public television station, WYCC-Channel 20 will be going off the air. But it\u2019s no surprise. The decision was prompted by the sale of its broadcast license in the FCC spectrum auction in April. Since then, City Colleges has eliminated most of... 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\/15509"}],"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=15509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15524,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509\/revisions\/15524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}