{"id":18110,"date":"2018-05-21T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=18110"},"modified":"2018-05-21T06:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:02:52","slug":"robservations-lite-fm-turns-off-kristina-kage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/05\/21\/robservations-lite-fm-turns-off-kristina-kage\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Lite FM turns off Kristina Kage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Kristina Kage<\/p><\/div>\n

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

It\u2019s over and out for Kristina Kage<\/strong> as morning personality at WLIT 93.9-FM.<\/a> Friday was her last day on the air at the iHeartMedia adult contemporary station. No comment from station bosses, but insiders said her replacement will be named today. Kage, whose full name is Kristina Zsenyuk,<\/strong> arrived in 2015 from Portland, Oregon, where she previously had worked with Mick Lee,<\/strong> program director and afternoon personality at Lite FM. In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, Kage\u2019s morning show ranked 12th overall with a 2.9 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 468,000.<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Scott<\/p><\/div>\n

A man who\u2019s been stalking Cheryl Scott<\/strong>\u00a0through social media was arrested and charged with felony electronic harassment Saturday after violating a probation order by sending another harassing message to the WLS-Channel 7 meteorologist. A report<\/a> on the case in the Chicago Tribune (which referred to Scott only as a female meteorologist at the ABC-owned station) prompted fellow weather forecaster Paul Konrad<\/strong> of Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 to tweet:<\/a> \u201cThis is a growing and increasingly common problem with Social Media. TV Stations want their talent to engage with their viewers. And, it is great for about 80% of the audience. However, . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roger Triemstra<\/p><\/div>\n

Meteorologist\u00a0Roger Triemstra<\/strong> had jaws dropping at WGN 720-AM during his induction in the WGN Radio Walk of Fame<\/a> Friday. In off-the-cuff banter with emcees Wendy Snyder<\/strong> and Bill Leff,<\/strong> Triemstra half-jokingly dissed two other Tribune Broadcasting forecasters: \u201cIf you want to know what the weather is, fine. If you want to see a lot of goofy pictures, get [Tom] Skilling<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cSkilling is such a nice young man. But he ought to spend more time with the science instead of them dumb pictures of [a] sunrise. Who the heck cares about a sunrise when it\u2019s 40 below zero?\u201d Of Morgan Kolkmeyer,<\/strong> Triemstra said: \u201cI think they have a gal now on Channel 9 in the morning. She must be in eighth grade. She\u2019s a cute gal, but she doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about.\u201d Triemstra retired from WGN after 33 years in 1998.<\/p>\n

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Carol Marin<\/p><\/div>\n

Legendary broadcast journalist Carol Marin<\/strong> and her longtime producer-partner, Don Moseley,<\/strong> were awarded honorary doctorates Saturday from Governors State University<\/a> in recognition of their lifetime commitment to journalistic excellence. In addition to their work on Chicago television, the two are co-directors of the DePaul Center for Journalism Integrity and Excellence. \"If you love what you do, it will propel you to do so much more, to love so much more, to be so much more,\u201d Marin told<\/a> the graduates.<\/p>\n

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Carol Felsenthal<\/p><\/div>\n

Bill Holderman,<\/strong> the Chicagoan who wrote and directed\u00a0\"Book Club\" (the new film starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton<\/strong> and Candice Bergen<\/strong>), may be setting his sights on a project about Katharine Graham,<\/strong> the late publisher of the Washington Post. Holderman and his co-writer and producer Erin Simms,<\/strong> have the option on Power, Privilege and The Post: the Katharine Graham Story,<\/em> the unauthorized biography by Carol Felsenthal,<\/strong> the Chicago magazine blogger. Since its publication in 1993, the book had been optioned twice before. \u201cI\u2019m hoping the third time\u2019s\u00a0the\u00a0charm,\u201d Felsenthal said.<\/p>\n

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Bruce DuMont<\/p><\/div>\n

Bruce DuMont,<\/strong> founder of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, will be honored by the Publicity Club of Chicago<\/a> Tuesday at its 59th annual Golden Trumpet Awards at the Palmer House Hilton. He\u2019ll receive the group\u2019s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for his multifaceted career. DuMont, who recently retired as president of the museum, continues to host \u201cBeyond the Beltway,\u201d his syndicated \u00a0radio show now in its 38th year.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Lorraine Hearn-Mccray:<\/strong> Why did [WCIU-Channel 26] ever change from \u201cYou & Me\u201d with Jeanne Sparrow and Melissa Forman? That was a much better show and hosts were genuine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: It\u2019s over and out for Kristina Kage as morning personality at WLIT 93.9-FM. Friday was her last day on the air at the iHeartMedia adult contemporary station. No comment from station bosses, but insiders said her replacement will be named today. Kage, whose full name is Kristina Zsenyuk, arrived in... 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\/18110"}],"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=18110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18131,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110\/revisions\/18131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}