Tag: Chicago
Community-funded Homicide Watch partners with Sun-Times to launch Chicago website
Homicide Watch, a crowdfunded community reporting site that tracks city murder victims, will launch its third site in Chicago by the end ...Smiley & West lands on two Chicago stations; town hall planned with Amy Goodman
Two commercial radio stations in Chicago have picked up the weekly Smiley & West show after it was dropped from WBEZ, the city’s public ...Punditry, audience declines cost Smiley & West stations
Tavis Smiley is defending the tone and content of his weekly public radio show Smiley & West after Chicago’s WBEZ became the latest and ...Carole Nolan, led WBEZ’s bid for independence
Carole Nolan, who founded WBEZ-FM in Chicago at a time when few women held top management jobs in public broadcasting, died July ...News coop for Chicago: print, online, on WTTW
A multimedia news organization committed to public service journalism will begin producing regional coverage of the Chicago area and Illinois for The New ...Bill McCarter, chief exec of independent-minded WTTW/WFMT, Chicago
Bill McCarter, who headed Chicago’s WTTW for 27 years before retiring in 1998, died of complications from cancer April 21. He was ...FCC to WTTW: too much of that funky stuff
WTTW and PBS say they’re baffled by the FCC’s proposal to fine the Chicago station $5,000 for airing four underwriting spots, including ...FCC notice to WTTW of fines for underwriting violations, 1997
In 1997, the FCC fined Chicago public TV station WTTW for violating commission standards for underwriting credits (Current coverage). More than two years ...
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