Durbin Announces Opposition to Sinclair Trib Media Merger Two weeks ago we queried Senator Durbin’s office as to the Senator’s position on the sale of Chicago-based Trib Media to Sinclair Broadcasting. This Monday we and all the readers of Crain’s…

The sale of Chicago-based Trib Media to Sinclair Broadcasting continues to be processed in the political sausage making process known as regulatory review in Washington sin any input from Chicago. B & C Magazine (Broadcasting and Cable) recently reported that…

Why is there no Chicago Television Institute? “They have been good corporate citizens. I strongly support the partnership between NBC Universal and Comcast.” And so stated Mayor Richard M. Daley before the Federal Communications Committee during hearings on Comcast’s proposed…

August 7th marked the FCC’s deadline for comments on the merger of Sinclair Broadcasting and Trib Media. As reported in trade papers such as Variety and Broadcasting and Cable, the main opposition came from smaller cable companies and their trade…

Like ants attacking a piece of chocolate cake during a summer’s picnic, the machines with giant iron claws have made fast work of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios on Chicago’s Near West Side; and with its demise goes a landmark of…

For a city that favors the fine arts over the popular arts and endowed institutions over commercial producers, Lake FX 2016, sponsored by the City’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, was a positive development. The target of this…

  New City, the small twice monthly free zine, published an interview with the new director of the Art Institute of Chicago as its lead article in the March 1-15 edition. The visual arts’ community in Chicago gets little attention…

    When WGN recently placed its North side studios up for sale following rumors that venerable Trib Tower was for sale by Tribune Media, it was a clear harbinger of the pending demise of Chicago-based Tribune Media, the fossil…

  Chicago’s cultural economy just became a little smaller with the loss of the Jazz Record Mart. As reported in all of Chicago’s mainstream media. The owner, Bob Koester, has sold his record inventory, his brand name and website to…

  With the recent announcement that the producers of the Chicago-based Steve Harvey Show are contemplating a move out of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune recently ran an article in their Sunday entertainment section (January 24,) chronicling Chicago’s history in the…