Steve Nidetz

When CBS first televised the Masters golf tournament in 1956, the network used six cameras. This past weekend, CBS used 28. So much for progress. Pictorially, there is nothing better...

Having had success bringing Beethoven to the hinterlands, Chicago-based WFMT Radio Networks now will try a little Brubeck. WFMT is about to market a satellite-delivered mainstream jazz programming format service...

CBS is celebrating its 40th consecutive year of Masters telecasts this weekend. But like all long-term relationships, this one has had its rocky moments. The latest centers around network analyst...

WTTW-Ch. 11 producer Len Aronson is leaving for Vietnam next week to tape a documentary on the changes in that country since the end of the war 20 years ago....

As baseball's labor war reaches a new climax this week, it's perhaps ironic that ESPN rebroadcasts at 8 p.m. Thursday the lovely "Voices of the Game" documentary that first aired...

Maybe because they have to, Chicago radio and television stations plan to cover Tuesday's municipal elections. But they aren't exactly enthusiastic about it. Says WLS-AM/FM 890/94.7 operations manager Drew Hayes,...

While the upcoming weekend is filled with basketball, hockey and, possibly, baseball, HBO figures the timing couldn't be better for the debut of a new sports newsmagazine. "Real Sports," hosted...

Michael Jordan helped TNT set a record Tuesday night with a 5.1 rating for its national cablecast of the Bulls-Knicks game, according to figures released Wednesday by Turner Sports. The...

The ongoing WBBM-Ch. 2 series describing life with AIDS has been successful enough that activist/reporter Rae Lewis-Thornton has had her contract renewed by the CBS station for at least two...

And now it's SportsChannel's turn to get into the Michael Jordan act. Big-time. The cable home of the Bulls was shut out of most of last week's hoopla but gets...