Mike North, whose “Monsters & Money in the Morning” went south in short order, is joining Fox Sports Radio. The syndicate’s announcement came Tuesday, less than a week after CBS-owned WBBM-Ch. 2 said it would drop North’s little-watched “Monsters & Money” early morning program after just seven months. Most details for North’s new show have yet-to-be announced. Get the full story >>
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Majority watching TV on their own schedule
If you’ve never time-shifted a prime-time television series — watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand — you’re now in the minority.
A survey of viewers conducted on the eve of the new fall season quantifies what has become commonplace in millions of American homes: People are putting themselves in charge of their own TV schedule. Sixty-two percent of viewers across the country interviewed in a poll conducted for the nation’s largest cable company, Comcast Corp., said they have used time-shifting technology. Six in 10 people said they owned a digital video recorder. Get the full story »
Meteorologist hired for Ch. 2’s new morning news show
The new morning show at WBBM-Ch. 2 to debut this month might not have a name yet, but it does have a new meteorologist.
It will be Megan Glaros from WCBS in New York, WBBM confirmed. Glaros, who hails from Dyer, Ind., and attended Indiana University, was the New York station’s weekend morning meteorologist and entertainment reporter. Get the full story »
Aug. 13, 2010 at 4:20 p.m.
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Filed under: Bankruptcy, Chicago executives, Magazines, Media, Newspapers, Radio, TV Zell seeks to be repaid before others in Tribune bankruptcy
Sam Zell, who took Tribune Co. private in a 2007 leveraged buyout, says he wants his claims in the media company’s bankruptcy to be paid before those of any lower-priority creditors. Zell put $315 million of his own money into the $8 billion deal. The company filed for Chapter 11 last year.
Demands by the lower-priority creditors have gotten louder since a bankruptcy examiner’s report last week raised questions about the LBO.
Oprah to host show on her new network
Oprah Winfrey has agreed to boost her on-air commitment to The Oprah Winfrey Network by hosting or starring in a show on the network, according to a Securities and Exchange filing made by Discovery Communications Inc. on Friday.
As part of the amended joint-venture agreement, Discovery agreed to increase by 89 percent, to $189 million, its funding commitment to Winfrey’s OWN network. Get the full story »
TV critic leaves Tribune for AOL Television
Maureen Ryan, a 13-year veteran of the Chicago Tribune and its television critic, announced Friday that she has left the newspaper to join AOL Television as its TV critic.
Before joining the Tribune, she worked for the magazines Chicago Enterprise and Cinescape, and she freelanced for Crain’s Chicago Business, RollingStone.com, the Chicago Reader, NewCity, Request and other publications.
