From today’s Feder column in the Sun-Times:

The latest weapon in Chicago television’s weather wars was unveiled Wednesday at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.

“Fox WeatherWatch” will track fast-moving storms with live radar that’s designed to provide more accurate and descriptive images than available before.

“No other station will be able to offer viewers the same state-of-the-art live radar and critical storm alert technology as Fox Chicago,” said Pat Mullen, vice president and general manager of Channel 32.

I just love the ongoing weather wars in Chicago. It seems like every time one station adds a super Doppler high-def storm tracker gizmo to their repertoire of weather tools, the competing stations have to add something just a little bit better. I’m just waiting for the first station to claim that they can, in fact, control the weather. “Vote online for the weather you want!”

Also from Feder:

Univision Radio has filed a zoning request with the city of Chicago for construction of six new radio towers on the South Side to improve the transmission of WRTO-AM (1200), the Spanish-language news/talk station known as “La Tremenda.”

According to the proposal, the 20-acre site at 127th and Yale would replace a nine-tower transmitter at 105th and Woodlawn.