Matt Spiegel
Matt Spiegel, former midday personality on WSCR 670-AM, has been named host of “Hit & Run,” the long-running Sunday morning baseball talk show on the Entercom sports/talk station.
Starting this weekend, Spiegel will front the show with a rotating guest host each week, starting at 9 a.m. Sundays. Joining him on the opener will be former Chicago Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster. Continue reading
Louder Than Words: Rock, Power & Politics
A traveling multimedia exhibit exploring how rock and roll has influenced politics and social movements around the world will open in late May at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications.
Louder Than Words: Rock, Power & Politics, curated by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the Newseum in Washington, D.C., combines video, photographs, artifacts and interactive elements to examine the role of music in reflecting society through 11 presidential administrations — from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama. Continue reading
Eddie Volkman, Alex Quigley and Patrick Capone
Robservations on the media beat:
Say goodbye to WFXF 103.9-FM, the northwest suburban classic rocker known as 103.9 The Fox. Educational Media Foundation is expected to finalize its purchase of the station from Matrix Broadcasting and flip it to the “K-Love” noncommercial Christian music format on Monday. When it learned the transfer was imminent, The Fox moved up its annual "Adult Easter Egg Hunt" from April 19 to this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake. Then it's over and out for morning host Eddie Volkman, midday host and program director Alex Quigley, and afternoon host Patrick Capone. "We knew it was coming and now we know when," Volkman wrote on Facebook. "We will always cherish you Fox Rockers, and like the Grateful Dead said, 'We will get by, we will survive'! Long live rock ‘n’ roll!" Continue reading
Deborah Norville (Photo: "Inside Edition")
Deborah Norville, longtime host of “Inside Edition” and former Chicago news anchor, underwent surgery Tuesday to have a cancerous nodule removed from her thyroid.
“Out of surgery. Everything went great,” she tweeted through an assistant. Continue reading
CBS 2 Chicago
The firing of news anchors Rob Johnson and Marissa Bailey and the promotion of Brad Edwards and Mike Puccinelli to their positions at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 led the top 10 most-read stories here in March.
To read the full posts, click on the headlines: Continue reading
ABC 7 Eyewitness News This Morning (1990) clockwise from top left: Alan Krashesky, Roz Varon, Jerry Taft, Kathy Brock
Thirty years ago local news on morning television in Chicago was pretty much a no man’s land.
If you wanted to know what happened overnight, whether to wear a coat or carry an umbrella, or how long your daily commute might take, you were better off turning on the radio.
On April 3, 1989, the game changed with the debut of “Eyewitness News This Morning” from 6:30 to 7 a.m. weekdays on WLS-Channel 7. Continue reading
Erich Mancow Muller
Robservations on the media beat:
It's no April Fool's joke: Starting today there’ll be more of “The Mancow Morning Show” to love — or hate — as the case may be. Cumulus Media news/talk WLS 890-AM is moving up the start of morning star Erich Mancow Muller by 30 minutes to 5:30 a.m. WLS chose not to renew the contract for the syndicated “America’s First News,” which preceded the morning show. That's been the plan since Muller joined WLS in January, according to Marv Nyren, vice president and market manager of Cumulus Chicago. The show still ends at 9 a.m. Quoth The Mancow: “If you think I sucked at 6 o’clock in the morning, wait till you hear me at 5:30.” Continue reading