{"id":1594,"date":"2013-12-10T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2013-12-11T07:53:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T13:53:50","slug":"jim-corno-1947-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/10\/jim-corno-1947-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Corno 1947-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Corno, a beloved, admired and respected broadcast executive who led Comcast SportsNet Chicago and its predecessors in Chicago for three decades, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it came to Chicago sports television, no one worked harder and had more passion for delivering these events to us night after night than Jim,\u201d Jeff Nuich, senior director of communications for Comcast SportsNet, wrote in an online tribute.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSimply put, every regional sports network this city has ever known \u2014 SportsVision, SportsChannel, Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet \u2014 has been run by only one individual: Jim Corno.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nuich wrote: \u201cThe world lost a great man today as Jim\u2019s courageous and heroic battle against cancer came to an end. . . . There are no words to express our sorrow to the entire Corno family. There are no words to describe the heart-breaking loss we, as he liked to call us, his \u2018second family,\u2019 are feeling right now. As much as Jim loved what he helped create three-plus decades ago, each and every one of us who ever worked for him knew how much he loved us. We are all honored and blessed to have had him in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the full text of the statement from Phil Bedella, vice president and general manager of Comcast SportsNet Chicago:<\/em><\/p>\n

I am deeply saddened to share the news that our leader, mentor and dearest friend Jim Corno, Sr. passed away this morning.\u00a0 He was 66.\u00a0 Jim battled his cancer to the very end with both courage and determination.<\/p>\n

Jim has been the leader of every regional sports network in Chicago TV history dating back to 1984.\u00a0 He was a pioneer in our industry in every sense of the word.\u00a0 He was also a gifted executive, but his everyday common man approach to business is what set him aside from everyone else.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t matter if you were his peer or just someone trying to break into the industry.\u00a0 He treated everyone he met with respect and there\u2019s no question when he spoke to you, you knew you were the most important person in his life at that moment.<\/p>\n

He looked at all of us as a member of his family and, for that, we can be grateful because we always had someone looking out for us each and every day.\u00a0 The sports television world may have lost one of its brightest stars, but the world has lost one of its greatest people.\u00a0 We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves and continuing to evolve the network he cared for so much and helped build so many years ago.\u00a0 Simply put, we were all blessed to have Jim as part of our lives.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers are with Jim\u2019s greatest loves, his wife, Carolyn, his children, Jim Jr. and Christina, his daughter-in-law Lori, his son-in-law Bennett, and his grandsons Jackson, Max, Mitchell, Joseph and Scott.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, the Corno family has asked donations be made to the oncology fund at the Edward Foundation, 801 S. Washington St., Naperville, IL 60540 in honor of Jim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Corno, a beloved, admired and respected broadcast executive who led Comcast SportsNet Chicago and its predecessors in Chicago for three decades, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. \u201cWhen it came to Chicago sports television, no one worked harder and had more passion for delivering these events to us night... 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\/1594"}],"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=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}