Category: Castle on Sports

Chuck Garfein, Comcast SportsNet Chicago anchor, is fulfilling a youthful ambition in writing, directing and editing a 4-part hourlong series on the memorable games in Chic...

Comcast SportsNet, producer of the “5 Outs” documentary about the star-crossed 2003 Cubs that aired in October, has already won its first award. Co-producers Sarah Lauc...

WGN-TV has started production on a two-hour special to mark Wrigley Field’s 100th birthday in 2014, by traveling to tape interviews with great Cubs of the past, including...

Companies eager to associate with a Chicago sports champion should have some fresh, appealing faces as frontmen with younger Blackhawks players. Superstars Jonathan Toews and Pa...

Cubs’ radio play-by-play announcer Pat Hughes turns to production when he’s not on the air this summer, as he begins editing material for “Baseball Voices”, the CD serie...

Viewers providing their comments via social media to the roundtable panelists is probably the biggest change made to SportsTalk Live presented by Smirnoff, Comcast SportsNe...

(Second of a two-part series)Fresh after assuming command of Tribune Co.’s broadcasting arm, the affable Larry Wert surely does not want to be known as the executive who ...

(First of a two-part series) It’s like an earthquake rattling up from the depths, a seismic shift could rock many corners of broadcasting and production in Chicago. The Cubs&n...

Chicago media outlets are going where standard-sized ENG camera crews sometimes don’t tread: in locker rooms on the road where videos of the city’s athletes are now being re...

When a record number of Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSC)regular-season hockey viewers (5.40 rating) watched the Blackhawks Tuesday, they also witnessed a new CSN Chicago pro...

Mark Hulsey knows his production crew is fortunate in televising the Big Ten’s men’s soccer tournament championship game being played Sunday on Northwestern’s lakefront fi...

Two new weekly shows are establishing the five-year-old, Chicago-based Big Ten Network as a regular producer of sports documentaries. Operating out of offices in the old Montgom...

Despite forthcoming lost revenue from the NHL players’ lockout, Trio Video’s first six months under ownership by mobile TV giant NEP has gone smoothly. “It’s helped out ...

NBC5 management believes star Bears receiver Brandon Marshall is such a good catch that his telegenic work for the station will continue throughout next off-season. Marshall’s...

Missed paychecks and production fees will ripple through Chicago-area video companies unless the National Hockey League lockout of players comes to an unexpectedly quick conclus...