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It didn’t take long for Carol Fowler to bounce back after she CBS 2 WBBM-TV let her go in November. This week, WFLD-TV FOX Chicago announced that Fowler would be joining the station on Feb. 2 as news director, the same position that she held at Ch. 2.
Rosenthal has details in the Trib:
“I realized I had to get back into this,” said Fowler, who on Tuesday was named vice president and news director of Fox-owned WFLD-Ch. 32. “It
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Maybe it’s been the warm glow of the Obama electoral victory. Or maybe it’s been the gritty reality of Chicago politics run amok. Or maybe it’s the personal impact of the economic downturn. Or maybe it’s just plain old nostalgia. Whatever the reason, ABC7’s political reporter Andy Shaw seems to be having second thoughts about calling it quits after 35 years of covering politics in Chicago.
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Reunited and it feels pretty good, so far. Mike North and Dan Jiggetts are back together again, as their new “Monsters in the Morning” program launched this week on Comcast SportsNet. Jiggetts had already been holding down a gig at CSN, while North had been marking time since his departure from WSCR-AM The Score last summer. North had been hosting an Internet radio program until the provisions of his contract allowed him to get back on television. North and…
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One of Chicago’s least liked news directors has been given her walking papers. Carol Fowler was let go yesterday after six years with WBBM-TV Ch. 2. The move comes just a few weeks after station boss Joe Ahern was let go and Mark “Bruno” Cohen took ever. Assistant news director Todd Woolman will act as interim news director. Fowler joined Ch. 2 from WGN-TV.
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John Callaway sat down with Robert Feder last Friday on WTTW-TV Ch. 11’s Chicago Tonight.
You can listen to the entire interview here:
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The ongoing saga of former NBC 5 WMAQ-TV reporter Amy Jacobson continues to get more depressing. She left NBC 5 last year after CBS 2 WBBM-TV cameras caught her on tape, in a bikini, in the backyard of Craig Stebic. Ostensibly, Jacobson was there to reporting on the story of Stebic’s missing wife. However, after CBS 2 aired the video, Jacobson’s credibiltiy in Chicago media vaporized.
Since that incident, Jacobson has been without employment. Now, she and her husband are…
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Chicagoist’s Karl Klockars talked with Jerry Springer about his TV show, his radio career, and his take on politics. Read the whole interview here.
In the interview, Springer claims that he wants to bring his TV show back to what it once was:
The stories have to have some substance, even if the guests were over the top. So we’ve been doing that, and so far it looks like people are liking it. There’s a growth every day.
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Lewis Lazare reports in today’s Sun-Times that, while Barack Obama may have been the big winner on election night, WLS-TV Ch. 7 did pretty well, too:
With a 17.6 rating and 25 share, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 was the undisputed victor in the ratings for the 10 p.m. hour when Chicagoans first learned one of their own soon would become the 44th president of the United States.
The big challenge of the night for local TV seemed to be deploying enough…
