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Bill McCarter, who headed Chicago’s WTTW for 27 years before retiring in 1998, died of complications from cancer April 21. He was 81. Newton Minow, a former FCC chair and WTTW trustee, recruited ...
In addition to WTTW, IBEW Local 1220 represents employees at a number of Chicago TV and radio stations including WBBM-Ch. 2, WBBM-AM 780, WCIU-Ch. 26, sports talk station WSCR-AM 670, WGN-Ch. 9 ...
WTTW’s “The Great Chicago Quiz Show” contestants include a high school student, a “Superfan” and a Sun-Times editorial board member.
Chicago has the largest Polish-American population of any city in the United States. This cultural hotbed made the television show Flavor of Poland from WTTW an instant winner. Not only is the ...
WTTW News explains the unique Chicago phenomenon of dibs. Every winter, Chicago stands divided around a practice commonly known as “dibs” – when car owners use janky household objects to ...
Baer also appears regularly on Chicago Tonight, WTTW’s flagship nightly newsmagazine, answering questions submitted by viewers in a segment called “Ask Geoffrey.” “They’re popular in large part ...