Mike Barz
One year to the day after he was fired as morning news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 for inappropriate conduct with a co-worker, Mike Barz is back in business: He's the new weekday morning anchor at WAWS-TV and WTEV-TV in Jacksonville, Fla.
It's a familiar market for Barz and his wife, Channel 32 reporter Tera Williams, who grew up in Central Florida and graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Mancow Muller
Now that the federal courts have struck down the government's zero-tolerance policy on broadcast indecency as "unconstitutionally vague and chilling," you'd think that Mancow Muller would be feeling a sense of vindication at last.
But for the controversial Chicago radio personality and longtime target of the Federal Communications Commission, Tuesday's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals comes as too little, too late.
In another move that's certain to confuse and alienate listeners, Tribune Co.-owned news/talk WGN-AM (720) just shook up its daytime programming lineup again.
John Williams
Under the new arrangement, Greg Jarrett will lose 30 minutes from his morning show, and John Williams (who, by one count, has occupied five different time slots in the last 19 months) will move yet again -- this time from middays to early afternoons.‚ It's hardly a vote of confidence in Jarrett, whose audience shares decline steadily from the moment he signs on at 5 a.m.
This is a true story.
I was at a water park with my kids. I found myself at the top of one of those insane drop slides you shoot out of at like a bazillion miles per hour. I was scared out of my mind. Out. Of. My. Mind. But then it became: I have to do this.
(photo by Lee Bey)
The three-story steel reinforced fiberglass eye sculpture--called, appropriately enough, "Eye"--debuted this week at downtown's Pritzker Park.
