Since March is the month of St. Patrick’s Day, it’s fitting that WTTW’s March Pledge Month will feature an original doc, “Irish Stories,” and for good measure, Chicago native and
You’d think that out of 256 nominations in 57 categories for the recent 50th Annual Emmy Awards the odds might favor non-station produced shows. But that didn’t happen.
MJZ, the bicoastal spot house that’s won more awards than any other production company, will pick up still another?this one from the 43rd annual Hugo Television Awards.
A few years ago it occurred to best friends Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson that their travels to exotic lands?80 so far?might make a good TV show. And so
Ch. 11’s original program, “Remembering Chicago: The 1950s and ’60s,” is the fourth in a series the station has produced on what is essentially a city memoir, with material provided,
DRAFT AND FCB WILL MERGE and the combined Interpublic-owned agencies will be called Draft FCB.
Chairman/CEO will be Howard Draft, founder/CEO of his
Northfield-based Media Recall, the people who made Ch. 11’s archives available online, have signed another PBS station, KAET, Ch. 8 in Phoenix, to digitize much of archives for convenient
Ch. 11 is getting it back together again after a funding slump with the launch of three new shows the station will produce.
“CEO Exchanges”
VINCE VAUGHN, whose every meal, drink and partying fills inches of column space, will give columnists serious delirium long after his film, “The Break Up,” wraps and the players return
THIRTY OPTIMUS “SPOTS”?not about the post house, but 30-second creative confections by all Optimus employees and not just editors?have been airing as commercials on Comcast.
Staffers
Chicago is about to regain its once-dazzling reputation for jazz as production of a series on the music and artists gets underway at Ch. 11.
“Legends of
by Ed M. Koziarski
This is the second of a two-part report.
A second season of 13 “Soundstage” episodes launches June 17 on Ch. 11 and national PBS with a line-up of today’s hottest performers. First show is a Fleetwood Mac
Looking for a stage? How big? Where do you want to shoot? To help you make that determination, ReelChicago scouted around to identify
TRADEMARK CONFLICT NOT FUNNY. Second City Television (SCTV) took umbrage over the SCTV acronym of the new Stand-Up Comedy Television cable channel and told the upstart channel to cease and
Recognizing the revenue potential from licensing content assets from its immense 50-year old library, Ch. 11 hired licensing expert Barry O’Connell and formed a new department exclusively for stock footage
Eight improv pros are walking past walls of floor-to-ceiling head shots, peering at the pictures, recognizing faces, occasionally putting a shot on the wall
