{"id":16833,"date":"2018-02-08T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=16833"},"modified":"2018-02-08T07:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:41:51","slug":"robservations-wgn-radio-revises-weekend-sports-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/02\/08\/robservations-wgn-radio-revises-weekend-sports-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: WGN Radio revises weekend sports roster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> WGN Radio<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Joe Brand<\/p><\/div>\n

While WGN AM 720<\/a> continues to negotiate for Chicago White Sox radio rights, the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station is adjusting its weekend sports lineup. Joe Brand<\/strong> will anchor sports on Saturday mornings as part of Lou Manfredini\u2019s<\/strong> \u201cMr. Fixit Show\u201d and \u201cThe John Williams<\/strong> Show.\u201d Brand, who graduated from Marist High School and Illinois State University, has been the play-by-play voice of the Kane County Cougars since 2014. Also at WGN, Andy Masur<\/strong> will join \u201cThe Dean Richards<\/strong> Show\u201d as Sunday morning sports anchor. As for the White Sox, they\u2019re losing their current radio home on news\/talk WLS AM 890 as owner Cumulus Media reorganizes from bankruptcy. Announcement of a new station is expected any day.<\/p>\n

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Alec Klein<\/p><\/div>\n

Northwestern University was rocked Wednesday by an\u00a0open letter<\/a> signed by 10 former Medill School of Journalism<\/a> students accusing a prominent professor of workplace abuses and predatory behavior. The letter to Medill Dean Bradley J. Hamm<\/strong> demanded the ouster of Alec Klein,<\/strong> citing \"discriminatory, emotionally and verbally abusive behavior.\" Klein, who runs the wrongful conviction project at Medill, \"categorically\" denied the allegations<\/a> and said he intends to take legal action \u2014 but did not specify against whom. Northwestern says it will review the allegations.<\/p>\n

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Columbia College Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

Citing declining enrollment, Columbia College Chicago<\/a> has suspended admissions to its master\u2019s degree program in journalism for the 2018-19 academic year. There were six students in the program this year and only 10 applicants for the next academic year, according to a college spokesman. Columbia\u2019s undergraduate journalism and communications programs are not affected by the move. A new graduate opportunity \u2013 the Civic Media master\u2019s degree program \u2014 will be launched in January 2019. \u201cWe\u2019ll also be looking closely at other graduate-level offerings in journalism,\u201d said spokesman Mark Rosati.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chas Goudie<\/p><\/div>\n

Chas Goudie,<\/strong> who founded the Chicago-based digital news website TheSixThirty.com with his brother Keegan Goudie,<\/strong> has been hired as a digital media specialist at the Sun-Times.<\/a> Chas Goudie will develop new media projects, according to Carol Fowler,<\/strong> senior vice president of digital news products. He is the son of Chuck Goudie,<\/strong> veteran chief investigative reporter at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/p>\n

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Rick Kogan<\/p><\/div>\n

Rick Kogan,<\/strong> the Chicago Tribune columnist and WGN weekend host, will moderate \u201cConversations in Comedy,\u201d<\/a> a panel on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and The Second City, at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.<\/a> The March 8 event will feature SNL and Second City alum Tim Kazurinsky,<\/strong> Second City\u2019s Kelly Leonard<\/strong> and Beth Kligerman,<\/strong> and Anne Libera,<\/strong> director of comedy studies at Columbia College. \"We are thrilled to be partnering with Second City,\u201d said Justin Kulovsek,<\/strong> the museum\u2019s vice president of innovation. \u201cSo many cast members from 'Saturday Night Live' got their start on Second City's stage.\u201d For ticket information see museum.tv.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s best comment:<\/a> Walter J. Podrazik:<\/strong> Your headline [\u201cTronc\u2019s Michael Ferro bids L.A. goodbye\u201d<\/a>] got me humming the 1970s Ides of March tune \"L.A. Goodbye,\" and thinking the new L.A. owners might be smiling at that song's lyrical reference to being \"light years from Chicago.\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: While WGN AM 720 continues to negotiate for Chicago White Sox radio rights, the Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk station is adjusting its weekend sports lineup. Joe Brand will anchor sports on Saturday mornings as part of Lou Manfredini\u2019s \u201cMr. Fixit Show\u201d and \u201cThe John Williams Show.\u201d Brand, who graduated from Marist... 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\/16833"}],"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=16833"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16847,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833\/revisions\/16847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}