{"id":19470,"date":"2018-10-10T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19470"},"modified":"2018-10-10T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T14:40:53","slug":"robservations-morgan-kolkmeyer-weathers-wgn-computer-snafu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/10\/10\/robservations-morgan-kolkmeyer-weathers-wgn-computer-snafu\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Morgan Kolkmeyer weathers WGN computer snafu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Morgan Kolkmeyer (Photo: WGN)<\/p><\/div>\n

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

One more reason you gotta love Morgan Kolkmeyer:<\/strong> When WGN-Channel 9's <\/a>weather center graphics computer failed <\/a>Tuesday morning, the Tribune Broadcasting station's plucky meteorologist didn't miss a beat. She simply delivered the forecast the old-fashioned way \u2014 on white paper with a couple of markers. (Here is the link.<\/a>) \"Things I didn't think I'd do when I made it to Chicago,\" she joked. Kolkmeyer joined<\/a> WGN in May 2017 from WREX, the NBC affiliate in her native Rockford.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Lyons<\/p><\/div>\n

Tuesday night\u2019s bombshell news<\/a> that Jennifer Lyons<\/strong> was returning to Tribune Broadcasting as news director of WGN-Channel 9 and CLTV after just three weeks away drew this observation<\/a> from assistant news director Sandy Pudar:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s like that time Bobby came back from the dead on \u2018Dallas.\u2019 It was all a bad dream! Welcome home!!\u201d Another friend compared it to the \u201cSeinfeld\u201d episode where George asks for his job back after quitting. Some were speculating that the move was related to collapse of the Sinclair Broadcast Group deal to buy Tribune Media. But knowledgable insiders insisted there was no connection. Lyons didn\u2019t decide to leave until well after the sale fell apart.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hosea Sanders and Buddy<\/p><\/div>\n

It's been a tough week for Hosea Sanders,<\/strong> the veteran news anchor at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>who's been off the air since June. For the second time this year he underwent intestinal surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. \"My surgeon says the procedure went well,\" he told Facebook <\/a>friends. \"Now we wait to see how it all works.\" (Last year Sanders underwent surgery for prostate cancer.) On Saturday, his dog and \"best friend\" Buddy died after surgery to remove tumors from his liver. Sanders\u00a0adopted <\/a>the dog from the Anti-Cruelty Society in 2014 after a \"Bark in the Park\" segment on ABC 7's morning news.<\/p>\n

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WBBM Newsradio<\/p><\/div>\n

Current and former employees of WBBM 780-AM<\/a> will gather tonight to celebrate the 50th anniversary <\/a>of the Entercom station's all-news format. Following the lead of CBS Radio stations in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, WBBM Newsradio's actual launch date was May 8, 1968. \"It was a learning experience getting into it and getting it all set up,\" recalled news anchor John Hultman,<\/strong> who joined the station three months earlier. \"The format has changed a little over the years, but we are telling people what they need to know \u2014 about traffic and weather, about sports, about the stock market, about the breaking stories.\" Tonight's 50th anniversary celebration at the new Chicago Architecture Center is by invitation only.<\/p>\n

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Vincent Goodwill<\/p><\/div>\n

Vincent Goodwill,<\/strong> who covered the Chicago Bulls beat for NBC Sports Chicago,<\/a> has resigned to join Yahoo Sports<\/a> in New York as a national NBA writer. The Detroit native covered the Pistons for the Detroit News before joining the regional sports network in 2015. \"It's been a great ride and I'll always be appreciative of my time here as I move onto the next step in my career,\" Goodwill tweeted. <\/a>NBC Sports Chicago expects to fill his position.<\/p>\n

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Erik Logan<\/p><\/div>\n

Erik Logan,<\/strong> the former Chicago radio executive who became president of OWN: Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> Network,<\/a> has resigned after seven years to join the World Surf League. \u201cErik has been a great leader and was the driving force in the network\u2019s turnaround,\u201d Winfrey said in a statement. \u201cEveryone who knows Erik knows he has a passion for surfing and this is a perfect opportunity for him.\u201d Succeeding him as general manager is Tina Perry,<\/strong> who was promoted from executive vice president of business and legal affairs. Logan, who once worked as operations manager of country WUSN 99.5-FM <\/a>under Infinity Broadcasting, joined Harpo Productions in 2008 and later moved with Winfrey to OWN. At the World Surf League he\u2019ll serve as president\/content, media and WSL Studios.<\/p>\n

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The Chicago Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe Unseen Show,\u201d<\/a> a new weekly podcast covering trending topics and day-to-day experiences of people with vision loss and other disabilities, has been launched by The Chicago Lighthouse.<\/a> (Here is the link.<\/a>) Produced, uploaded and archived by CRIS Radio <\/a>each Wednesday, it's hosted by Brett Shishkoff, Sandy Murillo, Jose Martinez<\/strong> and Michael Kolleng,<\/strong> who take turns as moderator. (Shishkoff, Murillo and Martinez are blind.) \u201cWe wanted to provide a lively forum in which members of the disability community could weigh in on the issues of the day and share their insights with a mass audience,\u201d Shishkoff said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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David Eigenberg and Christian Stolte<\/p><\/div>\n

Two stars of NBC's \"Chicago Fire\" \u2014 David Eigenberg<\/strong> and Christian Stolte<\/strong> \u2014 will join David Plier<\/strong> as co-hosts of \"WGN Nightside\" at 11 p.m. Friday on Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN 720-AM. <\/a>\u201cI get asked to do stuff, but it\u2019s usually best to be contained and formal,\" Eigenberg said. \"But now I can be a loose cannon for the first time.\u201d In response, Stolte said: \u201cI reckon someone has to be there at WGN Radio to keep David [Eigenberg] from being too David.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Bruce DuMont:<\/strong> Congratulations to AM 1000 on 20 years of sports talk. Before going on the air in Chicago, I spent several hours with Mike Golic and his first co-host driving around the city and suburbs in the backseat of a stretch limousine explaining some Chicago history \u2014 favorite local restaurants \u2014 including how to pronounce certain city streets. I remember we stopped \u00a0for corned beef in Highland Park at a local deli. To my knowledge Mike has never been required to pronounce the name Narragansett.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: One more reason you gotta love Morgan Kolkmeyer: When WGN-Channel 9's weather center graphics computer failed Tuesday morning, the Tribune Broadcasting station's plucky meteorologist didn't miss a beat. She simply delivered the forecast the old-fashioned way \u2014 on white paper with a couple of markers. (Here is the link.) \"Things... 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\/19470"}],"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=19470"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19496,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/revisions\/19496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}