Ward Quaal, who was hired in 1941 as a WGN-AM 720 staff announcer and went on to shape that station and WGN-Ch. 9 as an executive of Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co.’s WGN Contintental Broadcasting, died Friday in an area nursing home. He was 91.
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Aug. 25, 2010 at 5:45 p.m.
Filed under: Bankruptcy, Entertainment, Investing, Management, Media, Newspapers, Radio, TV, Updated Will Eisner be Tribune Co.’s next chairman?
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on July 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Michael Oneal and Sallie Hofmeister
Former Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner is in discussions that could lead to his return to the media spotlight — as chairman of the now-bankrupt Tribune Co.
The Chicago-based media company’s largest creditors are having preliminary conversations with prospective candidates who could operate Tribune Co. once it emerges from bankruptcy, according to several people with knowledge of the situation.
Eisner, who has been dabbling in the digital world as an investor since stepping down from Disney in 2005, is among the candidates under consideration to replace Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell as chairman of the reorganized company. Get the full story »
‘WGN Morning News’ to start a half hour earlier
Ratcheting up the trend across the country and in Chicago of expanded morning news shows, “WGN Morning News” said it will start at 4:30 a.m., a half hour earlier, beginning Aug. 16. It’s the first time in six years WGN Morning News has been expanded. Locally, WMAQ, also known as NBC 5, has already had a morning news program at 4:30 a.m. Get the full story »
