Conservative talk king Rush Limbaugh is reportedly working to put together a deal to gain an ownership stake in the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise.

A former professor at Chicago’s Columbia College has filed a lawsuit against the after the school fired her for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks in a class. Suriya “Sue” Smiley taught part-time at Columbia in the Radio department after spending 14 years as a producer for WLS-AM. Smiley is of Palestinian descent and was alleged to have told a student in her class, “I should have known you were Jewish by the size of your nose.”

Smiley’s suit against Columbia…

WLS-AM afternoon talker Roe Conn hosted the second annual Newsapalooza event at the Park West over the weekend. The premise of the event has been to bring in local and national TV news anchors and reporters to flex their musical chops. Richard Marx headlined and acted as musical director. The sold-out event benefited the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Here are the … uh … highlights of the event.

Nearly a year after his gig as Steve Dahl’s sidekick came to an abrupt end when CBS decided to cancel Dahl’s show on JACK-FM, Buzz Kilman is making the rounds on Chicago radio, ostensibly looking for his next gig. Killman popped up on Jake Hartford’s show on WCPT-AM last week, and this morning, he sat in with Big John Howell on WIND-AM 560.

Less than a week after Fresh-FM Bill Gamble ousted morning man Mike LeBaron, he’s welcoming new afternoon jock Roxanne Steele, according to Phil Rosenthal in the Trib.

Listeners will likely remember Steele from her decade at B96, where she worked until CBS chose not to renew her contract in 2008.

Lewis Lazare profiled Felicia Middlebrooks in the Sun-Times today, as she marks 25 years with WBBM-AM 780. The profile is very generous to Middlebrooks and spends very little time highlighting what may be most infamous moment in her career:

Middlebrooks made headlines herself in March 2002 when she and WBBM came to an impasse on her contract negotiation and they announced they were parting company. She was off the air for nearly two weeks, but returned after the Rev. Jesse

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CBS’ adult contemporary WCFS-FM 105.9’s morning man Mike LeBaron exited the station after two years on the job. The move comes early in the tenure of Bill Gamble, who arrived at the station nearly three months ago as program director.

When it launched with much fanfare almost two years ago, Fresh-FM 105.9 set it sights on WLIT-FM and WTMX-FM, trying to slice a piece of the coveted female 25-44 audience. The station has struggled to establish itself, and LeBaron placed…

Greg Jarrett Hired from KGO to Take Over Mornings; Williams to Mid-Days

In what can only be described as an abosolute shock, WGN-AM morning man John Williams, who assumed that role just six months ago, will be demoted to mid-days and former KGO-AM host Greg Jarrett will be taking over the morning drive slot. Jarrett was recently laid-off at the Citadel-owned San Francisco talker.