SOAPS WILL TAKE BACK SEAT FOR SIMPSON’S TRIAL
We'll go through this once, so take notes. The three major broadcast networks are suspending their daily soap operas for unprecedented live coverage of the opening arguments in the O.J....
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END OF LOCKOUT COULDN’T BE SWEETER FOR ANCHOR
Hockey returns to the airwaves Friday night and no one is happier than SportsChannel anchor Jim Blaney, who's been looking forward to this day since the lockout began. It got...
TALK OF THE TOWN: REGIS, KATHIE LEE, PHIL AND SALLY MOVE
The talk-show shuffle continues. WGN-Ch. 9 announced Tuesday it has acquired "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," a WBBM-Ch. 2 morning staple the last several years, and newcomer "George and...
FORGET SUPER BOWL-FOR FANS, BEST GAMES ALREADY HAVE ENDED
For pro football fans, there's no better day than Conference Championship Sunday. The games usually are close and the TV networks throw their best stuff out there. It's better than...
IN THE LATE HOURS, `ROCKY’ TO BEAT TELETHON TO PUNCH
Faced with declining ratings for the overnight portion of its yearly telethon, the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Chicago decided changes were needed. Instead of carrying the national UCPA telethon,...
FOX’S 1ST SEASON A HIT; FINE TUNING IS NEXT
Fox Sports-or, as John Madden calls it "Fox Sport, until they start doing hockey"-concludes its first season as a network heavyweight Sunday with the telecast of the NFC title game...
RODGERS LOOKS BACK AS CHANNEL 2 NEWS TAKES ANOTHER TURN
Johnathan Rodgers, the man responsible for the last three station administrations at WBBM-Ch. 2, Tuesday defended the station's latest marketing campaign. Rodgers, now president of CBS Television Stations division, was...
ESPN HOST FRUSTRATED BY BOWLS’ FAILURE TO STAGE TITLE GAME
Chris Fowler, as big a college football fan as there is even if he weren't host of ESPN's "College GameDay" studio show, should be in hog heaven this week. After...
IN ALL-TALK WORLD, RADIO WON’T LISTEN TO THOSE OVER 54
Everybody's talking. But not everyone is listening. Every conceivable talk-show format seemed to find a home somewhere on the Chicago radio dial in 1994. In all, at least a dozen...
GRIDIRON TO COURTSIDE: ALBERT’S DOUBLE DUTY
Marv Albert has done the NFL-NBA double-header thing before, but never on the road. Which makes his trip to Chicago for NBC's coverage of the Patriots-Bears game Saturday and the...