<\/a>Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/p><\/div>\n
The long-running courtship between \"Chicago's Very Own\" Tribune Media <\/strong>and Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/strong> \u2014 a $3.9 billion deal that would have created the largest TV station group in the country \u2014 ended with a once-compliant FCC questioning Sinclair's honesty and conduct. In the end, the two companies filed suits and countersuits, and went their separate ways.<\/p>\nMichigan Avenue<\/strong> magazine, the slick lifestyle publication catering to Chicago's wealthiest consumers, failed to pay its freelance writers for as long as eight months. Officials of Modern Luxury, which owns Michigan Avenue, acknowledged \u201congoing invoicing issues,\u201d which they attributed to their merger with GreenGale Publishing 16 months earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a deep bow to the late, great Roy Leonard, whose Turkey of the Year Awards were a Thanksgiving Day tradition on WGN 720-AM for decades, here\u2019s a hearty flip of the bird to this year\u2019s Chicago media recipients:<\/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\/19940"}],"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=19940"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19951,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions\/19951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}