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Commentary
Sports Media
Move is effective Oct. 1 After months of speculation, Comcast confirmed it was moving the Cubs' regional sports network to its ultimate tier effective October 1, giving fans the opportunity to continue ue watching the team on its basic tier for the rest of the current baseball season.
Television/Pop Culture/Entertainment
Viewing patterns are racially segregated as the city is Two weeks ago, the Metropolitan Planning Council and the Urban Institute proclaimed in a study (another in a very long line) something we've known for decades: the Chicago metropolitan area is one of the most racially segregated areas in the country.
Media Industry/Trade Coverage/Analysis
As viewers are cutting the cords, air comes out of cable's bloated balloon in the form of increasing defunct channels. A long-awaited change may be coming to the pay-TV atmosphere. Stories this week in Variety, Wall Street Journal, and Awful Announcing suggest the cable ecosystem is expected to shift soon due to low viewership, low reach, and high cost.
Radio
More talk, less music - as in none at all. Say goodbye to Q101, who Winnetka-based Fall Out Boy credits for helping launch its career. With Randy Michaels about to take over Emmis' WKQX-FM (Q101) in Chicago and WRXP-FM in New York City and the all-but certain likelihood of shifting both stations from Alternative Rock to either all-news or news-talk, what does this mean for the format?
Journalism
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 in the process of expanding their morning newscasts - to 4:30 a.m.
It's no longer a rush to get into the 4:30 a.m. news business - it's a stampede. Consider this - a recent search of TVNewsCheck of "4:30″ turned up a whopping 115 items., with most of the stories featuring stations starting 4:30 a.m. newscasts in the past year, or so.
