Steve Nidetz

From Saturday afternoon through Monday night, Mike Tirico seldom sees the trees across the street from ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Conn. While the leaves change colors, Tirico changes chairs in...

T he new WB television network makes its debut Jan. 11 on WGN-Ch. 9 with four new half-hour comedies starting at 7 p.m. WB programming chief Garth Ancier said a...

WCIU-Ch. 26 will carry 10 Illinois Big 10 Conference basketball games in prime time, starting in January. "If this is a big success, we may be adding more games later,"...

New WBBM-Ch. 2 news director John Lansing and former WBBM-TV station manager Van Gordon Sauter shared a panel last Friday at a media conference in Los Angeles. The topic was...

Barry Mayo has issued a challenge to Chicago radio giant WGCI-FM 107.5. Mayo is president of Broadcast Partners Inc., owners of WVAZ-FM 102.7 and recent purchasers of WJPC-AM 950 and...

Larry Mendte, the WBBM-Ch. 2 news reporter often criticized in the past for his walking standups and cardboard props, had the last laugh when he walked off Saturday with five-count...

Just because there hasn't been a locally produced live professional event on SportsChannel since Aug. 10 doesn't mean the regional cable network has gone dark. Far from it. "We've carried...

In its continuing attempt to bring some sensibility to the current political campaign, WTTW-Ch. 11 will present "Candidate Free Time," a half-hour program during which each of the Democratic and...

While Jim Huber prepared his "Field of Screams" documentary for "CNN Presents," which airs at 8 p.m. Sunday, the network's sports anchor was on all-too-familiar ground: Monica Seles being stabbed,...

Urban contemporary WGCI-FM 107.5 retained its No. 1 ranking in the Arbitron quarterly report for Chicago area radio stations released Tuesday. The Gannett-owned outlet increased its lead by one full...