{"id":16225,"date":"2017-12-11T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=16225"},"modified":"2017-12-11T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:12:32","slug":"fred-eychaner-realigns-newsweb-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/12\/11\/fred-eychaner-realigns-newsweb-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Eychaner realigns Newsweb management"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Newsweb Corp.<\/p><\/div>\n

Charley Gross, who\u2019s been Chicago media magnate Fred Eychaner\u2019s right-hand man for 25 years, is retiring as president and chief executive officer of Eychaner\u2019s Newsweb Corp., the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a remarkable 25 years,\u201d Eychaner said of his association with Gross, who was named to the non-executive position of chairman emeritus. Newsweb plans to announce a new president and CEO later this month, according to a company statement.<\/p>\n

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Fred Eychaner<\/p><\/div>\n

Gross, 61, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Eychaner continues as chairman and sole shareholder of Newsweb Corp., which he founded in 1971. In 2002 he sold WPWR-Channel 50 to Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Fox Television for $425 million, and long has been one of the country\u2019s most generous contributors to liberal candidates and causes.<\/p>\n

Among Newsweb\u2019s media operations are seven Chicago area radio stations, including progressive talk WCPT AM 820 and WCPT FM 92.5.<\/a> The others are all time-brokered: WCPY FM 92.7 in Arlington Heights; WCPQ FM 99.9 in Park Forest; WAIT AM 850 in Crystal Lake; WSBC AM 1240 in Chicago; and WNDZ AM 750 in Portage, Indiana.<\/p>\n

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Charley Gross<\/p><\/div>\n

Mark Pinski, who has been general manager of the time-brokered stations, will take on the additional role of general manager of WCPT AM and FM.<\/p>\n

In other management appointments announced Monday, Brian Linscott, who joined Newsweb earlier this year as a consultant overseeing the company\u2019s printing operations, was named chief operating officer. He previously was chief financial officer for the Sun-Times and a managing director with Huron Consulting Group.<\/p>\n

Joan Barry, who has been Newsweb\u2019s chief financial officer since 2006, was promoted to executive vice president and CFO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charley Gross, who\u2019s been Chicago media magnate Fred Eychaner\u2019s right-hand man for 25 years, is retiring as president and chief executive officer of Eychaner\u2019s Newsweb Corp., the company announced Monday. \u201cIt has been a remarkable 25 years,\u201d Eychaner said of his association with Gross, who was named to the non-executive position of chairman emeritus. Newsweb... 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\/16225"}],"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=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16234,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions\/16234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}