{"id":18280,"date":"2018-06-07T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=18280"},"modified":"2018-06-07T06:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:19:34","slug":"robservations-illinois-broadcasters-hall-fame-honors-bill-plante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/06\/07\/robservations-illinois-broadcasters-hall-fame-honors-bill-plante\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Illinois Broadcasters Hall of Fame honors Bill Plante"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Bill Plante (Photo: Jeff Burnett)<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Tom Skilling<\/p><\/div>\n

The great Bill Plante,<\/strong> who covered five presidents as CBS News senior White House correspondent, was inducted Wednesday in the Illinois Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. <\/a>The Chicago native and graduate of Loyola University retired after 52 years at the network in 2016. As the 60th inductee in the Hall of Fame, Plante was introduced by his stepson, syndicated radio talk show host Chris Plante.<\/strong> Also honored at the IBA convention in Normal, Illinois, was Tom Skilling,<\/strong>\u00a0legendary chief meteorologist for Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9, who received the group\u2019s Broadcast Pioneer Award.<\/p>\n

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Linze Rice<\/p><\/div>\n

Linze Rice,<\/strong> a reporter\/producer who covered Chicago\u2019s Far North Side Rogers Park\/Edgewater neighborhoods for DNAinfo.com Chicago, has founded her own communications firm. Pink House Media <\/a>will specialize in writing and pitching inspirational stories, along with developing editorial and social content and photography. \u201cI want to help uplift the stories of people working hard to make positive change,\u201d she said. Rice, who most recently worked as content strategist for River Strategies, also will teach journalism this fall at Loyola University and contribute to the digital news startup Block Club Chicago.<\/p>\n

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Steve Kashul<\/p><\/div>\n

Billed as the longest running golf series in the country, \u201cThe Golf Scene TV Show\u201d <\/a>marks the start of its 25th season this weekend on NBC Sports Chicago.<\/a> Returning to primetime at 6 p.m. Sundays, it has been hosted since the beginning by veteran sportscaster Steve Kashul.<\/strong> \u201cWe are quite proud of the accomplishment,\u201d Kashul said of the milestone. The show spotlights courses, new equipment and technology, tips from pros and interviews with player.<\/p>\n

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Michael Ferro<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s been quite a week for Chicago media figures coming back after premature sendoffs. First there was Rich \u201cSvengoolie\u201d Koz,<\/strong> who announced he was still alive <\/a>after Howard Stern<\/strong> inexplicably reporting his passing. Then came news that Michael Ferro<\/strong> hasn\u2019t left tronc after all. The former chairman terminated<\/a>\u00a0the $208.6 million deal to sell his 25 percent share in the company to McCormick Media, according to an SEC filing. McCormick Media, a previously unknown entity fronted by a distant relation to former Chicago Tribune publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick,<\/strong>\u00a0was unable to secure financing. That means Ferro remains onboard as tronc's largest shareholder \u2014 at least for the time being.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Fred Dreger:<\/strong> Until about 3 or 4 years ago, WGN was all I listened to from dawn to dusk. Then somewhere along the line they decided that my demographic was no longer relevant and fired most of their talent including Kathy & Judy, Cubs, etc. I\u2019ve tuned them out and haven\u2019t looked back. They deserve to be where they are today.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: The great Bill Plante, who covered five presidents as CBS News senior White House correspondent, was inducted Wednesday in the Illinois Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. The Chicago native and graduate of Loyola University retired after 52 years at the network in 2016. As the 60th inductee in the Hall... 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\/18280"}],"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=18280"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18294,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions\/18294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}