ABC RACE HOST PUTS COVERAGE BEFORE EGO
As he did in last year's Brickyard 400 telecast, ABC Sports' Indy-car racing host Paul Page will step aside and let veteran NASCAR announcers Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons call...
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`MARKET OBSERVER’ WILL TAKE ITS TICKER TO WSBT-CH. 23
The "Stock Market Observer," a weekday staple at WCIU-Ch. 26 for 27 years, is moving. Sort of. To make room for its new children's programming in the fall, WCIU general...
SPEEDUP RULES IN BASEBALL HAVEN’T CUT INTO WGN’S ADS
When WGN-Ch. 9 telecasts the Cubs' exhibition game Monday against the Tigers in Cooperstown, N.Y., executive producer Bill Borson won't be counting the seconds as he was doing Friday. After...
NO. 1 SHOCK JOCK COULD BE ITCHING FOR ANOTHER FIGHT
Howard Stern has been saying some nasty things-outrageously personal things-about Larry Wert lately, and the president/general manager of Evergreen Media Chicago is angry. Stern, the nationally syndicated shock jock now...
PRODUCER LOVES MAKING SHORT WORK OF DYKSTRA
When Barbara Kopple was approached by HBO about producing a segment for Sunday night's edition of "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," the two-time Academy Award winner figured she'd give it...
‘ROUND THE CLOCK SCORE ON HOLD WITH WESTINGHOUSE DEAL
A Diamond Broadcasting executive compared Westinghouse's flirtation with CBS and Group W's acquisition of WXRT-FM 93.1 and WSCR-AM 820 to a whale and a fish. "They're two separate entities," explained...
WORLD SERIES LIKELY TO GIVE VIEWERS SPLITTING HEADACHE
Now let me get this straight: The Blockheads of Baseball, unable to settle the squabble between ABC and NBC, have decided to split the World Series between the two networks....
WGCI-FM BACK IN 1ST PLACE AS WGN TAKES SLIDE
W GCI-FM 107.5 has leapfrogged WGN-AM 720 back into first place in the Arbitron rating of commercial radio stations in the Chicago area for the period from March 30 to...
ABC, NBC TO SHARE WORLD SERIES COVERAGE
Due to an inability to find an agreeable solution, executives at ABC, NBC and the Baseball Network came up Thursday with a Solomon-like decision: For the first time in history,...
OLYMPIC HOPEFULS TO GAIN SPOTLIGHT ON SPORTSCHANNEL
SportsChannel gives viewers a peek at the future starting Saturday night with 22 hours of coverage of the nine-day U.S. Olympic Festival--most of it live. Coordinating producer Dennis Kirkpatrick has...