{"id":16306,"date":"2017-12-18T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T20:22:36","slug":"robservations-baskerville-leaves-cloudy-weather-front-cbs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/12\/18\/robservations-baskerville-leaves-cloudy-weather-front-cbs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Baskerville leaves cloudy weather front at CBS 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Steve Baskerville<\/p><\/div>\n

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

As Steve Baskerville<\/strong> wraps up his 30-year run at WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> this week, the CBS-owned station has not yet named a successor as chief meteorologist. Friday will mark Baskerville\u2019s last day on the air as 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekday weather anchor. After that, \u201ca variety of fill-ins from amongst the weather team\u201d will appear on the newscasts, according to Jeff Kiernan,<\/strong> vice president and news director of CBS 2. In other words, look for Mary Kay Kleist<\/strong> and Ed Curran<\/strong> to take turns until further notice. Baskerville, 67, announced his retirement<\/a> last month, telling colleagues: \u201cIt is a natural time for me to step away and be more available for my family and loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ben Finfer<\/p><\/div>\n

Ben Finfer<\/strong> is unemployed again. Announcing his ouster as part-time host at ESPN Radio sports\/talk WMVP AM 1000, <\/a>Finfer told Facebook <\/a>friends the timing may have been related to a tweet in which he called President Donald Trump<\/strong> racist \u2014 a violation of ESPN\u2019s social media guidelines. \u201cI\u2019m okay with this because I don\u2019t think I had much of a future there anyway,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt was clear I wasn\u2019t going anywhere at ESPN and I\u2019ve been exploring other options for a while now. At some point soon I was going to have to move on.\u201d In 2014 Finfer delivered an on-air tirade<\/a> that went viral when he learned from my tweet that he was being fired along with the rest of the staff of The Game 87.7, Tribune Broadcasting\u2019s short-lived sports\/talk station. (Here is the link.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Richard Roeper<\/p><\/div>\n

Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper<\/strong> will host a monthlong marathon of 75 Academy Award-winning movies on HDNet Movies, <\/a>the digital cable and satellite network. For the second consecutive year, he\u2019ll introduce \u201cAnd the Oscar Goes To: Presented by Richard Roeper,\u201d an around-the-clock lineup of some of Hollywood\u2019s most honored films, including \u201cBirdman,\u201d \u201cBraveheart,\u201d \u201cNo Country for Old Men,\u201d \u201cMillion Dollar Baby,\u201d \u201cThe Fighter,\u201d \u201cBreakfast at Tiffany\u2019s\u201d and \u201cBlack Swan.\u201d The series will run from February 1 to March 4.<\/p>\n

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Cindy Ballard<\/p><\/div>\n

Cindy Ballard<\/strong> has resigned as chief human resources officer at tronc, <\/a>parent company of the Chicago Tribune, effective at the end of the year. A spokeswoman said Ballard was stepping down voluntarily to spend more time with her family. Tronc is seeking a \u201cdynamic, strong HR leader\u201d to replace her. Before joining tronc predecessor Tribune Publishing in 2015, Ballard served as senior vice president of human resources at 20th Century Fox for eight years.<\/p>\n

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Dominic Calabrese<\/p><\/div>\n

Congrats to veteran Chicago public relations exec Dominic Calabrese,<\/strong> who just started a second term as president of of the Publicity Club of Chicago,<\/a> the nation's largest independent public relations membership organization. \"I am honored to be able to serve another year as president of one of the finest PR organizations in the country and look forward to working with our board to enhance the professional experiences for all our members,\" he said in a statement. Calabrese is senior vice president of public relations at The Chicago Lighthouse and adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s best comment:<\/a> Dan Miller:<\/strong> Two more hours of wasted TV on New Year's Eve. Forced gaiety, clunky ad libs, moronic observations about decorations and people, all overlayed with wretched music. Sheesh.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: As Steve Baskerville wraps up his 30-year run at WBBM-Channel 2 this week, the CBS-owned station has not yet named a successor as chief meteorologist. Friday will mark Baskerville\u2019s last day on the air as 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekday weather anchor. After that, \u201ca variety of fill-ins from... 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\/16306"}],"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=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16317,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions\/16317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}