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en-USPhil Rosenthal2011-06-14T00:00:00-05:00Thank you for checking on Tower Ticker
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With my column no longer focused solely on media, but rather the business world at large, I will not be updating this blog regularly. You can continue to read my columns by clicking here and by following me on Facebook...Phil Rosenthal2011-06-14T00:00:00-05:00Phil Rosenthal's new Tribune business column
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You might want to read this note to the Chicago Tribune newsroom from my boss, Michael Lev, the associate managing editor for business: Folks: I’m very pleased to announce a new assignment for one of our colleagues. Beginning next week,...ChicagoNewspapersTribune Co.Phil Rosenthal2011-06-10T16:09:51-05:00Paige Wiser, ousted Sun-Times critic: 'I am ashamed'
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Paige Wiser is out at the Chicago Sun-Times after 17 years, the last three as its television critic, because her "Glee Live!" concert review in Sunday's newspaper mentioned one song that wasn't performed and described another she did not see....ChicagoFox BroadcastingMusicNews Corp.NewspapersoprahRadioSun-Times Media GroupTribune Co.Web/TechWeblogsWGN-AMPhil Rosenthal2011-06-09T17:50:18-05:00Beck, Couric, Pelley and the Trib all try to leverage strengths
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The reinvention of the media business is taking many forms from a single strategy. Traditional business models have taken a beating. So when there's a perceived advantage to be pressed, leverage it posthaste. For CBS, that means installing Scott Pelley,...CBSChicagoDisneyNews Corp.NewscastersNewspapersoprahTelevisionTribune Co.WBBM-TVWLS-TVWMAQ-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-06-08T11:12:00-05:00Katie Couric's Disney-ABC deal gives her 3 p.m. WLS-Ch. 7 slot in fall '12
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Katie Couric's syndicated one-hour daytime show will air weekdays at 3 p.m. on Chicago's WLS-Ch. 7 and seven other Disney-ABC-owned stations when it makes its debut in September 2012, the media company announced Monday. WLS now runs the syndicated "Inside...CBSChicagoDisneyNBC UniversalNewscastersoprahTelevisionWLS-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-06-06T13:26:06-05:00'Windy City Live': WLS Ch. 7's post-Oprah baby needs to be stronger if it wants to run
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Throughout each hour of "Windy City Live," WLS-Ch. 7's 9 a.m. replacement for "A.M. Chicago," if not "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that replaced it 25 years ago, viewers are invited to comment about the show on Facebook and Twitter. The...ChicagoDisneyoprahTelevisionWLS-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-06-05T09:16:30-05:00Nils Larsen becomes Tribune Broadcasting CEO; Jerry Kersting exits as president
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RELATED: My June 1 column on Larsen's appointment * * * Nils Larsen, chairman of Tribune Co.'s broadcast division since October, today was named chief executive of Tribune Broadcasting, which is streamlining its upper management. Effective immediately, Larsen, 40, will...ChicagoClear ChannelCLTVNewscastersNewspapersRadioTelevisionTribune Co.Web/TechWGN-AMWGN-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-31T09:57:53-05:00ESPN's story in highlights, hits, errors and lots of scores to settle
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Here's a scene you never saw in those fun and funny "This is SportsCenter" ads that helped establish the ESPN brand over the last two decades or so: Anchor Karie Ross — fed up with the culture of harassment she...DisneyESPNSportsTelevisionPhil Rosenthal2011-05-28T21:06:46-05:00Oprah's last show boosts TV ratings
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Oprah Winfrey's Wednesday 9 a.m. finale on WLS-Ch. 7 averaged a 13.4 household rating, which translates to a little less than 470,000 Chicago-area homes. That was second only in Chicago on Wednesday to the 14.9 household rating (nearly 522,000 homes)...CBSChicagooprahTelevisionWLS-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-26T12:30:21-05:00Bulls' NBA playoff struggle against Heat still attracts a TV crowd on TNT
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(UPDATED AT 4:30 P.M. WITH NATIONAL FIGURES) The Chicago Bulls' overtime loss Tuesday to the Miami Heat in Game 4 of Eastern Conference final on TNT was seen in 22.6 percent of the homes in the Chicago market, according to...ChicagoSportsTelevisionPhil Rosenthal2011-05-25T11:20:33-05:00NBC Universal Sports' Dick Ebersol exits, without delay
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Dick Ebersol has resigned as NBC Sports Group chairman. OK. He actually resigned on Thursday. But Ebersol is the TV executive who helped bring "plausibly live" into common use as a euphemism for "taped," as in: NBC is airing this...NBC UniversalSportsTelevisionWMAQ-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-25T00:31:23-05:00WLS' 'Windy City Live' names contributors
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"Windy City Live," the new local program WLS-Ch. 7 plans to introduce Thursday in the 9 a.m. weekday slot that Oprah Winfrey vacates after Wednesday's finale, has announced the addition of four contributors. Joining hosts Ryan Chiaverini and Val Warner...ChicagoClear ChannelDisneyoprahTelevisionWGCI-FMWKSC-FMWLS-AMWLS-TVWMAQ-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-25T00:08:34-05:00WGN's Tomasulo to be guest-host Friday on 'Live with Regis & Kelly'
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Pat Tomasulo of Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co.'s WGN-Ch. 9 is set to make yet another visit to Disney-ABC's syndicated "Live With Regis & Kelly." Tomasulo (pictured right) is set to fill in for Regis Philbin as Kelly Ripa's guest...ChicagoDisneyoprahTelevisionTribune Co.WGN-TVWLS-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-24T23:31:54-05:00Randy Hano named Time Out Chicago publisher
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Randy Hano, a former publisher of Chicago Tribune Media Group's Chicago magazine, is joining Time Out Chicago as vice president and group publisher, effective June 13. Hano will report to Frank Sennett, Time Out Chicago’s president and editor-in-chief. "He fundamentally...ChicagoMagazinesSun-Times Media GroupTribune Co.Phil Rosenthal2011-05-24T10:00:00-05:00Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat NBA playoff still a hot TV draw for TNT
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(UPDATED AT 2:30 P.M. WITH NATIONAL FIGURES) Fewer Chicago-area homes were tuned in to the Bulls' 96-85 Game 3 Eastern Conference finals loss Sunday at Miami on TNT than the first two games of their best-of-seven series with the Heat,...ChicagoSportsTelevisionTime WarnerPhil Rosenthal2011-05-23T12:04:17-05:00'Schwarzenegger's a parent' dilemma for media: What names are news?
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Satellite TV trucks were parked around a cul-de-sac in Bakersfield, Calif., last week. Whatever the former housekeeper of Maria Shriver and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did or did not consent to in connection with parenting the child he admitted...NewscastersNewspapersRadioTelevisionTime WarnerTribune Co.Web/TechPhil Rosenthal2011-05-22T01:11:21-05:00'The Oprah Winfrey Show': The original social network
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Before there was social networking, there was Oprah Winfrey. Phil Donahue revolutionized daytime TV talk by walking into the audience and showing people parts of the world they didn’t necessarily know about. Winfrey revolutionized daytime TV talk by being the...ChicagooprahTelevisionWLS-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-21T10:40:53-05:00The morning after 'Oprah' finale, Gayle King hosts OWN 'After Party'
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It will be interesting to see if Chicago fans looking for their Oprah Winfrey fix next Thursday, the day after her final original show airs, bypass the debut of WLS-Ch. 7's ambitious live local 9 a.m. replacement for an unexpected...ChicagoDisneyoprahSirius XM_TelevisionWLS-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-19T19:12:44-05:00Will 'American Idol' vote for Wheeling's Haley Reinhart be affected by Bulls-Heat?
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Wheeling's Haley Reinhart has been one of the low-vote-getters four times this season on "American Idol." As one of the final three contestants, she stumbled on the stairs while performing Led Zeppelin's "What Is and What Should Never Be" on...ChicagoFox BroadcastingNews Corp.SportsTelevisionTime WarnerWFLD-TVPhil Rosenthal2011-05-19T17:42:31-05:00Bulls can't beat Heat in Game 2, but TNT overpowers 'American Idol' in Chicago
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(UPDATED AT 4:30 P.M. WITH NATIONAL FIGURES) Roughly one-in-four Chicago-area homes, on average, watched the Bulls' loss Wednesday to the Miami Heat, which evened their best-of-seven NBA Eastern Conference final playoff series at one game apiece. TNT's Game 2 telecast...ChicagoFox BroadcastingSportsTelevisionTime WarnerPhil Rosenthal2011-05-19T09:53:43-05:00