Paige Wiser, ousted Sun-Times critic: 'I am ashamed' Phil Rosenthal's new Tribune business column Beyond sharing what crosses my desk-and my mind-this will be a venue for you to share your takes with me as well as with each other. It’s TV, radio, newspapers and whatever, both locally and nationally. This is an expansion of the Chicago Tribune column I have written since April 2005, and the columns I wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times and Los Angeles’ Daily News for two decades before that. Me./a/aichgPIogOogKaISsV6z2C2bXpy4f4Meei7_ | Or is it there so little staff to report more of the news which is available so one has to add fluffer material. Lastly stop doing what Entertainment Tonight does and keep wasting time by telling me what is coming up at every commercial break, which by the way there is more of them than the news, Just tell me once at the beginning of the news. It made a much better reporting team and once can see the worked together better. Please take me back to the old WBBM crew of 2 years ago. Then also the loss of the weathercaster and technology reporter Ed Curran as well. She may of looked cute & sexy but did not fit very well as part of the team. They even made a bone head decision when they brought on Anne State. Maybe those who make these bone headed decisions should be fired as well hint hint - Jeff Kiernan – Channel 2 president and new Director. I am sorry that anyone has to lose their jobs but Monsters and Money was just another poor attempt by the stations management to draw viewers. Does anyone really care what Mike North thinks or says?Īs a result of your station's poor choices, I not only hope Anne State moves to another Chicago station, I already have. who, in addition, does not dress professionally, butchers the English language and talks like he has a load of garbage in his mouth. I would like to add one final opinion: How does Channel 2 justify relieving a professional, Anne State, and then compensating individuals like Mike North?. I hope Anne goes to another Chicago station and shows CBS 2 management what a huge mistake they made." They initially had the right idea in having her anchor the 5, 6 and 10 news. How CBS 2 management could let this smart and personable anchor go is beyond imagination. Unlike the boring and scripted approaches that our other Chicago anchors display. "She delivered the news with great ease as if she was talking to you in person. (I can not state my position any better, other than to say maybe channel two in Chicago needs to look elsewhere, other than its anchors, for a solution to its low news ratings.) However, I wish to offer you the following, written by another viewer. I am certain that the administration had its reasons for discontinuing Ms. A lifelong Chicagoan, he got his start in local radio in a variety of roles at WGCI-FM 107.5, WIND-AM 560, Tribune Co.'s WGN-AM 720 and WLS-AM 890.ĭear Mr.Cohen, Back in November 2009 I sent you an email regarding Anne State's excellent, professional qualities. 9, was for a time a CNN technology correspondent and contributed in-flight tech segments shown on United and American airlines. Unlike State, who now is a free agent, Curran will remain under contract and be paid to remain off the air until mid-2011.Ĭurran, who joined WBBM in 2002 after stints at NBC-owned WMAQ-Ch. Weathercaster and technology reporter Ed Curran (pictured left), a longtime local television and radio fixture, is also leaving WBBM, effective Friday. since State moved off the anchor desk on those newscasts.“We appreciate Anne’s contributions and wish her the very best in her future endeavors,” Jeff Kiernan, Channel 2 vice president and news director, said in a statement. show to front while she added reporting duties. State (pictured right) at one point was co-anchor of all three of Channel 2's weeknight newscasts, but a reorganization last April left her with only the 5 p.m. Thursday was her last day, the station said. 2 two years ago under a previous regime that pegged her as a lead anchor, has left the CBS-owned station.
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