Jim Kirk

Is there a place for another comedy channel on your cable TV dial? How about if you knew the channel was based in Chicago? No joke. Two Chicago business executives...

At a time when advertisers are struggling to reach consumers who are tuning out TV and other media, one buying firm has decided to readjust its operation. Starcom USA promoted...

All eyes at the Chicago Sun-Times are on Yusef Jackson, son of Rev. Jesse Jackson. Yusef is better known these days for running Anheuser-Busch beer distributor River North Sales &...

Advertising agency Leo Burnett Co. is headed back to boot camp. Only this time, the stakes are much higher than they've ever been. During the next few weeks, the U.S....

Here's what not to do if you're the new anchor-in-waiting for the coveted 10 p.m. anchor spot at a major TV news outlet in Chicago: refuse to cover a news...

Fed up with what the low-carbohydrate mantra has done to thin sales at its own company and in the beer industry in the past few months, the nation's largest brewer...

Infinity Broadcasting's short-lived experiment in stretching one general manager to oversee three radio stations ended Thursday with the naming of several new station bosses. In a restructuring of the management...

Federal regulators have deepened their investigation into Chicago Sun-Times owner Hollinger International Inc., zeroing in on unauthorized "non-compete" fees paid to former Chief Executive Conrad Black and his chief deputy,...

Time Inc.'s on-again, off-again plan to resuscitate Life magazine as a weekly newspaper insert is closer to reality. Time and Tribune Co.'s publishing unit are near to inking a deal...

In another troubling sign that the problems plaguing Chicago's once-thriving advertising industry are far from over, one of the city's oldest agencies cut close to half of its staff on...