BULLS PREGAME SHOW `DREAM COME TRUE’ FOR KASHUL
Steve Kashul is beginning his fourth season as host of SportsChannel's Bulls pregame show. And somewhere along the way, Kashul and studio analyst Norm Van Lier have settled into an...
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LOCAL CHANNELS GEAR UP FOR BIG NIGHT OF NEWS
A general election is the stuff regional cable all-news channels are made for. So, not surprisingly, CLTV plans a full assault of Tuesday's vote from 7 p.m. until at least...
MORE’S THE WORD FOR VIEWERS, ESPECIALLY DURING PLAYOFFS
If you can't find a National Basketball Association game on television this season, you aren't looking very hard. Especially when it comes to cable and the postseason. As part of...
BET ON IT: OTB WILL CUT INTO TV RATINGS FOR BREEDERS’ CUP
As the Breeders' Cup has blossomed from a made-for-TV sports event into thoroughbred racing's biggest day, so too have off-track betting parlors grown, draining viewers away from Nielsen boxes. Although...
1 YEAR AFTER FIASCO, BOHANNON, VOLKMAN TEAM UP IN PHILLY
J oe Bohannon and Ed Volkman, who were riding the highway of ratings success on WBBM-FM 96.3 when disaster struck last spring, are alive and well and working together again....
WCIU, WFBT TO MOVE FROM CBOT BUILDING
WCIU-Ch. 26 and low-power affiliate WFBT-Ch. 23, which become all-English-speaking independent stations Jan. 1, are planning to move their facilities from the Chicago Board of Trade building to a new...
BASEBALL STRIKE LETS MICHAELS FOCUS ON MONDAY NIGHTS
No, says ABC sportscaster Al Michaels, he didn't miss doing the World Series, which possibly could have ended in a Game 7 Sunday night. Unlike some baseball announcers who took...
THAT SPECIAL TIME OF THE YEAR FOR `SPECIAL REPORTS’
The important November Nielsen sweeps ratings period-during which the networks throw their good stuff at each other and the local affiliates have those "special reports"-begins for all TV stations Thursday....
NEIGHBORHOODS FLAVOR MARATHON TELECAST
The Chicago Marathon lives again on live TV. Thanks to an infusion of world-class runners-and the success of last year's telecast-WFLD-Ch. 32 will have start-to-finish coverage of Sunday's race. While...
TWIN CITIES TALENT CONTINUING TO FLOW TO CHANNEL 2 NEWS
The migration from the Twin Cities to Chicago's WBBM-Ch. 2 continues. Paul David, currently a producer of the 10 p.m. newscast at KARE-TV in Minneapolis, has been hired to produce...