Kevin Metheny, the WGN-AM 720 program director whose abrupt moves to grow the audience grew a well of resentment among some long-time listeners, is is leaving the station along with his most controversial hire, former convicted Chicago City Clerk Jim Laski.
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Oct. 5, 2010 at 10:20 a.m.
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Filed under: Bankruptcy, Management, Media, Newspapers, Radio, TV, Updated Eisner says he’d advise, not run, Tribune Co.
Former Disney Co. chief Michael Eisner denied rumors Tuesday morning that he will become chairman of a post-bankruptcy Tribune Co.
In an interview with WGN-720 AM host Greg Jarrett, Eisner acknowledged that he had bought Tribune debt as an investment and knew some of the principals involved, but said a journalist “put 2 and 2 together and got 11″ in speculating that Eisner would move into the top job at Tribune. Get the full story »
