Cheryl Scott and Jerry Taft

Ten things to look for on the Chicago media beat in the coming year:

• Chicago Tribune will introduce a metered digital subscription model in the second quarter of 2016. The new system for all Tribune Publishing newspapers will give readers access to a limited number of online articles for free before they hit a paywall requiring them to subscribe. It will replace the current premium digital pay model, with certain content (including this blog) available only to subscribers.

• Cheryl Scott’s meteorological star will continue to rise at ABC 7, where she’ll be promoted to the 10 p.m. Monday-through-Friday newscast. The move will coincide with a shift for chief meteorologist Jerry Taft, now in his 32nd year at the station, to earlier weekday newscasts.

• Two Tribune Media stations will join forces when the underutilized CLTV cable channel launches a video simulcast of Steve Cochran’s morning show on WGN AM 720.

• Garry Meier, the former WGN personality who’s been sidelined since November 2014, will launch an online radio show with fellow WGN exile Leslie Keiling.

• Chicago Cubs baseball broadcasts will air on WSCR AM 670, and Chicago White Sox baseball broadcasts and Chicago Bulls basketball broadcasts will air on WLS AM 890.

• Four Cumulus Media stations (WLS AM 890, WLS FM 94.7, WLUP FM 97.9 and WKQX FM 101.1) will move to NBC Tower, Chicago magazine will move to Chicago Tribune Freedom Center, and “The Steve Harvey Show” may move (depending on the outcome of negotiations) to Los Angeles.

• Four Chicago journalists — Lolly Bowean, Sarah Karp, Richard Steele and the late Cecilia Vaisman — and philanthropist Aurie Pennick will receive Studs Terkel Community Media Awards from Public Narrative in April.

• Nine local television veterans — Emily Barr, Lilia Chacon, Mary Ann Childers, the late P.J. Hoff, Jay Levine, the late Len O’Connor, Dean Richards, the late Tim Weigel and Frank Whittaker — will be inducted in the Silver Circle of the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in May.

• Although current management may be oblivious to the milestone, Fox 32 will mark its 50th year on the air in Chicago. (Founded by Field Enterprises, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times, WFLD-Channel 32 first signed on January 4, 1966.)

• Charles Thomas will mark 25 years at ABC 7, Brant Miller and Phil Rogers will mark 25 years at NBC 5, Dean Richards will mark 25 years at WGN, Dan Schmidt will mark 25 years at Window to the World Communications, and Mary Dixon will mark 25 years at WXRT FM 93.1.