Steve Nidetz

M ark Giangreco, sports anchor at WMAQ-Ch. 5 since 1982, is leaving to join WLS-Ch. 7, where he will replace Tim Weigel on the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts starting...

Mark Giangreco, the lead sports anchor at WMAQ-Ch. 5 since 1982, is leaving to join WLS-Ch. 7. Giangreco and his agent, Joel Weisman, negotiated a multiyear deal with the Chicago...

Jonathan Leess, who helps to oversee ABC Sports' cruise down the information superhighway as vice president for production planning, knows firsthand how addictive that ride can be. After staying in...

WLS-Ch. 7 will add a weekly 90-minute news show to its lineup starting Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 29. Newcomers John Garcia and Suzanne Rico will co-anchor "Sunday Morning Eyewitness News."...

Bob Dekas, a Chicago guy all the way down to his Bulls paraphernalia, gets a dream-like assignment Saturday when he produces CBS' telecast of the first college basketball game at...

With the November Nielsen ratings sweeps nearing its conclusion Wednesday night, WBBM-Ch. 2 has begun to recover some of its lost 10 p.m. audience while WLS-Ch. 7 still remains the...

It's only the second week of the college basketball season, and already ESPN has brought us the Preseason NIT, the Maui Invitational, the Great Alaska Shootout, the Tipoff Classic and...

WEHS-Ch. 60 continues to move away from its home-shopping image. "Chicago Employment Opportunities," a half-hour weekday program that has been shopped around by North Shore-based Video Resumes for several weeks,...

It's the stories that Mike Leiderman likes best about preparing for his play-by-play duties on SportsChannel's telecasts of the state high school football championship games. Leiderman, who also hosts SportsChannel's...

One day earlier this month, Janet Davies picked up her morning papers and was overwhelmed by the amount of coverage given the breakup of the once-storybook marriage of Britain's Prince...