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Marti JonesListeners to Dave Fogel's morning show on oldies WLS-FM (94.7) will hear a new but recognizable voice doing news, traffic and weather, starting Monday.

Maybe it wasn't such a crazy idea after all: A lot more people than you'd think really are watching news at 4:30 in the morning. Nielsen figures for September show local news viewership from 4:30 to 5 a.m.

Veteran broadcaster Steve Cochran just became the latest Chicago radio all-star to align himself with AccuRadio.com and its growing lineup of streaming audio formats.

When Steve Baskerville cheerfully delivered the weather forecast for Honolulu during WBBM-Channel 2's 5 p.m. newscast Monday, he wasn't just shilling for the premiere of "Hawaii Five-O" that night.

An assortment of news items (updated and annotated) from my Chicago Sun-Times columns of 22 years ago this week: "Oprah Winfrey, who recently acquired ownership of her nationally syndicated talk show, has purchased an 88,000-square-foot studio complex and production facilit

Just as Phil Rosenthal tipped last month, Tribune Co.-owned WGN-Channel 9 is getting back into the weekend morning news business.Channel 9 announced Tuesday that it will air an hourlong newscast at 6 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, starting the weekend of Oct. 2.

I can't say I recall Bill Bungeroth as a particularly hilarious guy during the five years he ran WPNT here in the '90s (although he did have the good fortune to employ humorists‚ Steve Cochran and Fred Winston as the station's morning personalities). Smart businessman? Yes. Funny? No.