Jerry Agar and Shawn “The News Junkie” Wasson are off the WGN-AM 720 schedule, and former Chicago Bear Glen Kozlowski is back with a weekend revival of the long-running “Sports Central” program.
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Kevin Metheny, Jim Laski out at WGN-AM 720
Kevin Metheny, the WGN-AM 720 program director whose abrupt moves to grow the audience grew a well of resentment among some long-time listeners, is is leaving the station along with his most controversial hire, former convicted Chicago City Clerk Jim Laski.
WGN legend Ward Quaal dies
Ward Quaal, who was hired in 1941 as a WGN-AM 720 staff announcer and went on to shape that station and WGN-Ch. 9 as an executive of Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co.’s WGN Contintental Broadcasting, died Friday in an area nursing home. He was 91.
Aug. 25, 2010 at 5:45 p.m.
Filed under: Bankruptcy, Entertainment, Investing, Management, Media, Newspapers, Radio, TV, Updated Will Eisner be Tribune Co.’s next chairman?
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on July 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Michael Oneal and Sallie Hofmeister
Former Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner is in discussions that could lead to his return to the media spotlight — as chairman of the now-bankrupt Tribune Co.
The Chicago-based media company’s largest creditors are having preliminary conversations with prospective candidates who could operate Tribune Co. once it emerges from bankruptcy, according to several people with knowledge of the situation.
Eisner, who has been dabbling in the digital world as an investor since stepping down from Disney in 2005, is among the candidates under consideration to replace Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell as chairman of the reorganized company. Get the full story »
WGN moving John Williams to afternoons
Midday host John Williams is moving yet again on the WGN-AM 720 schedule, this time to early afternoons, where he will be reunited with on-air partner and newsman Steve Bertrand.
The tweak to the schedule, the latest change of several at Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co.’s radio station, calls for Williams to slide into the 12:30 p.m.-to-3 p.m. weekday shift, with the Aug. 9 arrival of Cincinnati import Mike McConnell in the 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Chicago Tribune Media Group promotes two execs
The Chicago Tribune Media Group, the Tribune Co. division that includes the Chicago Tribune, on Wednesday announced the promotion of newsroom executives Joycelyn Winnecke and Jane Hirt.
Chicago Tribune Editor Gerould Kern, a senior vice president, said in a memo to staff that Associate Editor Winnecke and Managing Editor Hirt each are adding the title of vice president after 22 months in their current posts in recognition of “their exceptional accomplishments and growing responsibility for the company.” Get the full story »
