BLOGS VIDEOS SHOWS TOPICS RSS Scratch and sniff: A wag of the tail to salute Home Steve Dale 09 Robservations on the media beat: 02 2010 Anyone who devotes his life to the welfare of animals is a good guy in my book. So it’s nice to know that by Robert Feder [email protected] Chicago’s ambassador to the dog and cat world, Steve Dale, just signed on for five more years as @robertfeder nationally syndicated pet columnist with Tribune posted in Media Services. In addition, Dale’s weekly radio RSS Feeds Feder show, which ran for 12 years on Tribune Co.-owned blogs.vocalo.org news/talk WGN-AM (720), moved last June to Robert Feder Citadel Broadcasting news/talk WLS-AM (890). Lee Bey Steve Dolinsky “Steve Dale’s Pet World” now airs at 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays. He’s also a MISSion Amy K.R. certified animal behavior consultant and a blogger for ChicagoNow.com. 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He succeeds Dave Santrella, who moved up to Melba Lairz II on The trials and president of Salem’s radio division on Dec. 15. One of Reisman’s first tasks is to tribulations of Randy Michaels & Co. name a replacement for Cisco Cotto as co-host of Big John Howell’s morning Tammy M. on The trials and tribulations of Randy Michaels & Co. show on WIND. Cotto left to join WLS as Roe Conn’s afternoon partner at the end of last year. Miss Julie on The trials and tribulations of Randy Michaels & Co. Mark Bieganski, who created a popular blog on Oprah Winfrey when he was a dman on Ward Quaal, patriarch of Web editor at the Sun-Times, has joined Time Out Chicago as a senior online modern WGN (1919- 2010) producer. Among his duties will be tracking Oprah’s final season in Chicago for the Nick Tzitzon on Ward Quaal, patriarch of modern WGN (1919- magazine’s website. He most recently was an online producer for Fox Chicago 2010) News. 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Events 41st St. Doors open at 7 p.m. The dance will be hosted by his widow, Savina Crossroads of Faith: Between Pegue. The legendary Chicago radio personality, producer, songwriter and musician Christianity and Islam died of heart failure last March at 64. Governance & Board Development Committee - Chicago Public Media's Tags: Big John Howell, Cisco Cotto, Dusty Record Convention, Oprah Board of Directors Winfrey, Richard Pegue, Rick O'Dell, Steve Dale Responding to the Global Nuclear Threat About The Author Worldview Meet Up at World Music Fest Chicago 2010 Robert Feder Isabel Wilkerson has been keeping tabs on the media in Chicago for 30 years. A lifelong Chicagoan and graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, he was Third Coast Listening Room Presents: Book Odds + our first-ever doodling television and radio columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. At age 14, he founded the experiment first and only Walter Cronkite Fan Club. 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