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The awkwardly titled “Monsters & Money in the Morning,” debuted on WBBM-TV Ch. 2 this morning. The ensemble production consists of the former WSCR-AM duo of Mike North and Dan Jiggetts. They are joined by Terry Savage of the Sun-Times and former CNBC correspondent Mike Hegedus. Mary Kay Kleist is handling weather duties while Susan Carlson reads the news and delivers the traffic reports.
The program, described by Ch. 2 chief Bruno Cohen as a, “sports and business information program,” is…
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Over at the T Dog Media Blog, Terence Henderson offers up his analysis of where Conan O’Brien may end up now that his brief tenure at NBC as host of The Tonight Show has come to an end, including the implications for Chicago TV stations.
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As the puck drops on a new hockey season, the Chicago Wolves have reached an agreement with WPWR-TV my50 to broadcast 15 games this season. The deal marks the first time since the Wolves have had a broadcast outlet for their games since 1997. The remainder the AHL team’s schedule will air on Comcast SportsNet or its affiliates.
This move, along with the Blackhawks’ deal with WGN-TV, signals a marked change in direction for hockey broadcasting in Chicago. For decades, the…
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Longtime Chicago sportscaster Chet Coppock recently released a book entitled, Fat Guys Shouldn’t Be Dancin’ at Halftime: An Irreverent Romp Through Chicago Sports (The Good, the, Bad & the Ugly). In the book, Coppock offers up his opinion on some of the best and the worst sports personalities in Chicago. WGN-TV’s Pat Tomasulo made the #2 slot on the worst list.
Imagine, then, how awkward it could be if Coppock sat down on the WGN-TV set and came face-to-face with Tomasulo.…
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Longtime Chicago broadcaster Bob Sirott will not be the new 10pm anchor of the WMAQ-TV Ch.5 newscast. The station had been grooming Sirott to replace Warner Saunders for several years, and his ascension to one of the most prominent jobs in Chicago broadcasting was considered by most to be a sure thing.
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They’ve only been on the air for a few months, but Mike North and Dan Jiggetts are already getting more exposure for their “Monsters in the Morning” program on Comcast SportsNet. Starting on April 1, the local cable channel will replay a one-hour replay at 11pm of the program from the same morning. The encore will be an edited version of the show, featuring the best interviews and segments of that day’s broadcast.
Part of the strategy is to capture viewers…
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Revenue and ratings are both down, and WBBM-TV Ch.2’s general manager Bruno Cohen is being forced to do whatever he can to stop the bleeding, even if that means renting out space in his own building. According to David Roeder’s column in the Sun-Times today, Cohen is looking to lease out both street-level studio space as well as office space in the new facilties on the corner of Dearborn and Washington, in the Block 37 space:
Cohen hired Jones Lang LaSalle…
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It was supposed to be a warm send-off for longtime Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Feder. But instead, this week’s annual meeting of the Chicago chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists turned ugly when veteran news anchor Warner Saunders unloaded three decades of frustration on the scribe.
