{"id":15572,"date":"2017-09-27T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15572"},"modified":"2017-09-27T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:06:48","slug":"robservations-steve-cochran-hits-1000-without-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/09\/27\/robservations-steve-cochran-hits-1000-without-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Steve Cochran hits 1,000 \u2018without being fired\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> The Steve Cochran Show (from left): Steve Grzanich, Mary Van De Velde, Mike Jacobsen, Andrea Darlas, Steve Cochran, Mary Sandberg, Orion Samuelson, Dave Eanet and John DaCosse<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Steve Cochran<\/p><\/div>\n

Steve Cochran<\/strong> will celebrate his 1,000th show as morning personality on WGN AM 720 <\/a>with a live broadcast event from 6 to 10 a.m. Monday from the Blackhawks Store at 333 North Michigan Avenue. The Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station will feature a multitude of on-air giveaways and \u201cspecial surprises\u201d throughout the show. \u201cCubs win, Trump<\/strong> wins, I go 1,000 shows without being fired,\u201d Cochran said of the milestone. \u201cA very strange time, but I'm honored to sit where Wally Phillips, Bob Collins,<\/strong> and Spike [O'Dell]<\/strong> sat and mostly just appreciative and humbled by the audience support.\u201d In the latest ratings Cochran\u2019s show tied for fourth place with a 4.5 percent audience share.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Chicago\u2019s public television station is moving forward to find a replacement for Dan Schmidt<\/strong> as president and CEO of Window to the World Communications Inc., parent company of WTTW-Channel 11<\/a> and classical radio WFMT FM 98.7. <\/a>In June Schmidt announced his retirement,<\/a> effective at the end of the year. A spokeswoman for the company declined to comment on the process, but confirmed the signing of New York-based executive search firm Blinkhorn LLC <\/a>to lead the effort. Ann Blinkhorn<\/strong> also was responsible for identifying Goli Sheikholeslami<\/strong> as president and CEO of Chicago Public Media in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Matt Watson<\/p><\/div>\n

Matt Watson,<\/strong> an expert on digital content and analytics, has been hired as chief digital strategist for the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/a> Since 2011 he has worked at Vox Media, where he oversaw audience development and served as managing editor for analytics for SB Nation. \u201cPeople all over the country are excited about what we are trying to do here at the Sun-Times,\" CEO\u00a0Edwin Eisendrath\u00a0<\/strong>said in a statement. \u201cRecruiting a person like Matt, with significant experience leading growth teams at Vox, says that we are serious about winning.\u201d Watson, a graduate of the University of Michigan, previously was national NBA editor at AOL.<\/p>\n

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Roz Varon and Sara Janz<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019ll be mother-and-daughter day Thursday at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>for veteran traffic reporter Roz Varon<\/strong> and her daughter, Sara Janz,<\/strong> a senior at Columbia College. On the same day Varon guests on \u201cWindy City Live\u201d to promote her new book, On the Road with Roz: Adventures in Travel and Life,<\/a><\/em> Janz will be starting her internship with the show. \u201cI\u2019m so proud of her because she did this on her own,\u201d Varon said. \u201cBecause we have different last names, nobody knew she was even being considered until she came in for the final interview.\u201d Janz is majoring in television production at Columbia.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Brown Boyden<\/p><\/div>\n

Deadline for entries is October 31 in the Sarah Brown Boyden<\/strong> Journalism Awards<\/a>\u00a0competition, sponsored by the Chicago Journalists Association.<\/a> Top prize is $500 for the best story in the Chicago area and northern Indiana. Boyden joined the Chicago Evening American after attending Northwestern University in the 1920s and later worked at the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun. New to the contest this year is the Daniel N. Moulton<\/strong> Award for the best sports story. Moulton covered hockey for Chicago Today and the Chicago Evening American before joining the Chicago Tribune as sports copy editor. Winners will be honored at CJA\u2019s 78th annual dinner November 10 at the Union League Club, 65 West Jackson Boulevard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Steve Cochran will celebrate his 1,000th show as morning personality on WGN AM 720 with a live broadcast event from 6 to 10 a.m. Monday from the Blackhawks Store at 333 North Michigan Avenue. The Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station will feature a multitude of on-air giveaways and \u201cspecial surprises\u201d throughout... 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\/15572"}],"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=15572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15581,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions\/15581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}