Join the dawn patrol
It looks like more and more stations are joining the extremely early morning dawn patrol. If you thought 5 a.m. was early, you haven’t seen nothing yet. In two big markets, local stations have or are...
View ArticleWBBM-TV names new 10 p.m. co-anchor
CBS-owned WBBM-TV is undergoing yet another change with its 10 p.m. weeknight newscast by pairing current anchor Rob Johnson with Kate Sullivan, a morning anchor at sister station WCBS-TV in New York...
View ArticleWBBM-TV cancels "Monsters"
What’s surprising about Monsters and Money in the Morning is the program actually outlived The Jay Leno Show – by one month. In what could be considered the biggest bomb in local television history,...
View ArticleT Dog’s Grab Bag: Exit, stage left…
..and other media news of note: – Kevin Manno is exiting his afternoon gig at alt-rock WKQX-FM (Q101) to take a job hosting a yet-to-be named weekday show on MTV according to CRM. The new show debuts...
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The latest Shame inductees: A Band of "Brothers"
With the induction of Fox’s “Brothers”, it marks the first time two series with the exact same name are in The T Dog Media Blog Hall Of Shame. Both programs are unrelated to each other,...
View ArticleCBS revamps morning show – again
Here we go again: The Church Of Tisch is revamping its perennially low-rated morning show for the 284th time – and there may be changes to WBBM’s dawn patrol newscasts as well. CBS canceled The Early...
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Chicago media just keeps serving up the has-beens
On the old PI Feedback forums at the former Mediaweek.com, a poster named “Twins12” often referred to the hit reality TV series Dancing With The Stars as Dancing With The Has-Beens, noting the...
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The axe swings on FM News in Chicago, New York
Welcome, i101 overlords. It’s safe to say this now: FM News 101.1 is the biggest bomb in the history of Chicago radio. But you knew that already, right? Merlin Media pulled the plug on its all-news...
View ArticleMarty Wilke jumps to WBBM-TV as GM
As first reported by Robert Feder at Time Out Chicago Friday morning, WGN-TV general manager Marty Wilke is exiting the Chicago CW affiliate and heading to CBS-owned WBBM-TV (CBS 2) in the same...
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The T Dog Media TV Hall of Shame
No one expected CNN’s Chicagoland to be a love letter to the city – but no one expected it to be a Rahm infomercial either. A critical and ratings flop, Chicagoland is the one of TV’s lowlights in...
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The fridge pack (plus one): The unlucky 13 of the decade
“Chicagoland” was nothing more than an eight-hour infomercial for Rahm Emanuel and dragged the city into the mud. There are flops, and then there are….flops. For every success in the most recent...
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