Steve Nidetz

W hen WGN-AM 720 began its search for a replacement for Dick Butkus in the Bears broadcast booth, "one of the things we looked for was someone who brought emotion...

They giggled like a couple of schoolgirls, these former champions. Brought together last week by HBO to promote the pay-cable network's 21st straight year of Wimbledon coverage, Billie Jean King...

T he phone rings. "Hi, I'm Carol (or Bob) from AT&T (or Sprint or MCI) and I'd like to talk to you about your long-distance service." Click. Just another annoying...

More Big 10 football telecasts means more diplomacy, especially at the conference office. ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and Creative Sports are scheduled to share a piece of the Big 10 pie...

Linda MacLennan expects to return to her post on the WBBM-Ch. 2 news anchor desk at 4:30 and 10 p.m. "sometime toward the end of summer," she said Tuesday. MacLennan...

Jim Conway always was the quiet one. While he lacked the flamboyance of several of his contemporaries in the Golden Age of Chicago television, Conway was a survivor. After all,...

While John Davidson hasn't seen the Blackhawks in person this season, the Fox Sports hockey analyst feels he's captured the team's essence. The Hawks "compete," says Davidson, who will be...

Tom Weinberg, the creative force behind such innovative programs as "Image Union" and "The '90s," is at it again with "Weekend TV" on WYCC-Ch. 20. "It's the beginning," Weinberg said....

Enough was enough, figured USA Network executive producer Gordon Beck--let's put on the French Open in real time. And so cable coverage of the second leg of tennis' Grand Slam...

Despite NBC capturing the national prime-time May Sweeps ratings title, ABC-owned WLS-Ch. 7 remained No. 1 in the local 10 p.m. news battle. WLS' weeknight "Eyewitness News at 10" finished...