BLACKHAWKS’ SUCCESS LINKED TO CREATIVITY
The Blackhawks get their first taste this abbreviated season of national TV-albeit cable-when ESPN telecasts Sunday night's game in Dallas. (Since it's a road game, SportsChannel also will air the...
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CLOWN KING HEADS FOR THE CENTER RING AT MEDINAH TEMPLE
Bozo-with some time on his hands now that his TV show appears only weekly-takes his act to the real circus for the first time Friday. The legendary TV clown, played...
AWARD PROVES IT: DORE STANDS ABOVE FELLOW BROADCASTERS
Tom Dore always has been above the crowd when it comes to broadcasting. Only now the 7-footer has the plaque to go with it. Dore, in his fourth season as...
WARNER DEAL PUTS KIDS’ SHOWS ON WCIU-CH. 26
WCIU-Ch. 26 has signed a multi-year agreement with Warner Bros. Television to air the Kids' WB Network starting next fall. Also, WCIU will be the "shadow" affiliate for the prime-time...
PETTY STILL A TOWERING FIGURE AT DAYTONA 500
Richard Petty is an old hand at the Daytona 500, having started the traditional season-opening NASCAR race 32 times and winning it seven. But Sunday's race will be the first...
DOWNEY RIDING HIGH IN RETURN TO ROOTS ON TALK SHOW CIRCUIT
I t may be hard to tell, but Morton Downey Jr. is feeling "great" about his new-but not necessarily different-TV talk show, "Downey," which airs at 7 p.m. weekdays on...
DON’T LAUGH! GOODMAN’S WORRIED ESPY CROWD WON’T
John Goodman knows he'll have his meaty hands full when he replaces standup comic Dennis Miller as host of the ESPY Awards show Monday night on ESPN. Goodman, known more...
OVERDUE TRIBUTE FOR OVERLOOKED PIONEER IN RADIO
The Museum of Broadcast Communications pays tribute to a little-known pioneer of Chicago radio when it celebrates the work of African-American broadcaster Richard Durham at 6 p.m. Feb. 22 in...
YESSS! ALBERT FINALLY GETS NBC ALL-STAR CALL
It's taken five years, but pro basketball junkie Marv Albert finally gets to call his first NBA All-Star Game for NBC on Sunday. When the network first got the league...
BONADUCE’S TV SHOW FINDS A HOME ON WMAQ’S SCHEDULE
Danny Bonaduce's new daily syndicated TV talk show, called-what else?-"Danny!" and slated to begin airing in the fall, has found a Chicago home on WMAQ-Ch. 5. No time period was...