Jack Chapman
Orchestra Conductor
The performances of Jack Chapman and his orchestra were first carried by WGN Radio’s forerunner, WDAP, from the Drake Hotel. His first program of dance music increased station mail from 200 to 800 letters per day. The Jack Chapman Orchestra would be a regular fixture in the early years of WGN, including performances as part of the station’s special 10th anniversary broadcast.
Jack Quinlan
Cubs announcer
Jack Quinlan was Cubs play-by-play announcer from 1955 throug 1964. He was killed in a tragic auto accident prior to the start of the 1965 season. Memorialized, beginning in 1967, in the annual Jack Quinlan Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago.
(L-R) Lou Boudreau and Jack Quinlan
Michele from @MyZazoo realized that her unique PhotoClock concept created for young children has a whole new audience and application— it’s good for the elderly as well. This second market opens up lots of opportunities…and questions. Rachel and Suzanne take the time to weigh in.
Aired 12.09.14
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Sue Heilbronner and her partner Elizabeth Kraus had an idea to help women-run companies get to the next level with a female-focused start-up accelerator. The killer name, MergeLane, is just the beginning of what they get right. Here’s where assumptions and cliches about women go to die….giving birth to smart and serious acceleration. Sue is our girl on fire— engines ready.
Aired 12.09.14
Daniela and Jimmy are the dream team— committed to their local merchant partners, passionate about serving their customers, and willing to do the hard work themselves. They deliver BIG TIME on the Big Payoff. Wanna know what it takes to make your idea a reality? Here it is.
Aired 12.09.14
Should we always get what we want when we want it? Seems like everyone today wants immediate gratification 10 minutes ago. But at what cost? Don’t play 3 Card Monte with fast, cheap and good— give it all to your customers. And don’t be late.
Aired 12.09.14
Jack Rosenberg
Sports Editor
Jack Rosenberg spent 40 years with WGN Radio/WGN-TV/Tribune Radio Networks. He worked as producer for Jack Brickhouse for 20 seasons in the Chicago Bears radio booth. Also worked alongside Brickhouse during Channel 9 telecasts of Cubs baseball. Rosenberg also held other positions with the company included news writer and work with the Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bears radio networks.
Jack Rosenberg
Jack Rosenberg
Sports Editor
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For over four decades, Jack Rosenberg was a key member of the WGN Sports department. Although his voice was rarely heard on-air, “Rosie” worked along side such greats as Jack Brickhouse, Vince Lloyd, Lou Boudreau, Jack Quinlan and Irv Kupcinet. He remains a walking encyclopedia of Chicago sports teams and how WGN covered them.
Vince Lloyd
Sports Announcer
Vince Lloyd worked for WGN Radio as Sports Announcer from 1949 to 1987. Lloyd was the voice of the Chicago Cubs for nearly 23 years covering the games with Lou Boudreau. He was also the voice of the Chicago Bulls for 8 years.
Lloyd was born Vince Lloyd Skaff on June 1, 1917, in Beresford, South Dakota. In 1940, he graduated from Yankton College in Yankton, South Dakota, where he played tackle on the school’s football team, acted in local theater productions, and performed in radio dramas on WNAX. Lloyd held early radio jobs at KTRI in Sioux City, Iowa, WJBC in Bloomington, Illinois, and WMBD in Peoria, Illinois. His broadcast career was interrupted by service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. After the war, he returned to WMBD as sports editor and broadcaster of college football and basketball as well as semi-pro baseball.
In September, 1949, Vince Lloyd joined WGN, where he would spend the next 38 years covering sports on both radio and television. Although he is best known for his 23 years of radio broadcasts of the Cubs with Lou Boudreau, he also worked alongside Jack Brickhouse on Cubs and White Sox telecasts, was the voice of the Chicago Bulls for eight years, and covered Chicago Bears and Big Ten football as well as professional wrestling. His versatility in the broadcast booth earned him the respect of many who called him “The Voice of Summer” and “The Voice for All Seasons.”
Among the highlights of Lloyd’s long career are his call of a Sandy Koufax perfect game and his interview of President John F. Kennedy, the first time a president had been interviewed on live television at a baseball game. He named the 1969 Cubs his favorite ballclub.
Vince Lloyd was the last member of a generation of Cubs broadcasters that also included Jack Quinlan, Jack Brickhouse, Lou Boudreau, and Harry Caray. He is survived by his son, Mike, and widow, Myrtle. His first wife, Miriam, died in 1999 after over 50 years of marriage.
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James McBurney
Moderator, The Northwestern Reviewing Stand
James McBurney was the Dean of Northwestern University’s School of Speech. McBurney was also moderator of the long-running Northwestern Reviewing Stand program.
Jack Taylor
Announcer/Host
Jack Taylor joined WGN Radio in 1958. He worked for the station as an announcer. Taylor was host of programs, including some paired with Virginia Gale. He was also a successful television news anchor on WGN-TV with Len O`Connor’s commentaries, Harry Volkman’s weather reports and Jack Brickhouse’s sports.
Jack Taylor with Ruby Anderson as “Virginia Gale
Virginia Gale
Host
“Virginia Gale” was a persona, not the name of an actual person, in much the same way “Dear Abby” is used as a pen name. Virginia Gale was originally portrayed by Virginia Clark and later (after 1950) by Ruby Anderson (pictured).
In their earliest days, Virginia Gale programs were targeted toward homemakers and were successors to programs hosted by Katherine Roche as “June Baker” going back to 1935. Later, they evolved to become more general interest programs featuring news, music and conversation, including programs in which she was paired with Jack Taylor.
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Today on the Body By Bloch Show, David Hochberg and plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Bloch talk about how you can give the gift of youth this holiday season…or maybe just adjust your youthfulness a bit.
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Jan Coleman
News anchor and host
Jan Coleman worked at WGN Radio as the News anchor during evenings and overnights. She was the host of Friday, Saturday or Sunday evening program through much of the 1990s. Coleman was also an accomplished guitar player and vocalist.
Jan Coleman singing the national anthem before a Kane County Cougars game.
Jim Carollo
Director of Engineering
I started working for WGN in March of 1970 when he was 24 years old. I had worked for two other radio stations before coming to WGN. I briefly worked at WLS during the summer of 1965 and then I moved to WEFM, which is now known as US99 on 99.5FM. In those days, WEFM was owned by Zenith Corporation and it was a classical music station.
In my first years with WGN I was a board operator, remote engineer and maintenance engineer at the studio where I repaired and installed electronic equipment. I was often scheduled as the engineer at Wrigley Field working the baseball games with Vince Lloyd and Lou Boudreau and I also did many of the Bears broadcasts between 1970 and 1975 with Jack Brickhouse and Irv Kupcinet. WGN always had many remote broadcasts and in those years I did a lot of them such as the Noon Show on location at county fair sites and Big 10 football broadcasts with Vince and Lou.
I also operated our studio consoles when I was not assigned to equipment maintenance or remotes. I worked on shows like Roy Leonard, Franklin MacCormack, Bill Berg, Howard Miller, Bob Collins, Eddie Hubbard and many others. It was interesting work because many of those shows had famous guests like Bert Reynolds, Barry Manilow, Olivia Newton-John, Mel Torme, Rich Little, David Brenner and many others. It was fun.
In 1977 I was promoted to Engineer in Charge of daytime studio operations. During that period I supervised the day to day engineering operations. In 1979 I was promoted to the Chief Engineer position. At that point I became responsible for all of the station’s technical operations, including the transmitter site. Since 1979 we have installed five new transmitters, built these studios on Michigan Avenue before moving back here to Tribune Tower in 1986, built two mobile studios and a satellite uplink and built a showcase studio in 1987 and then renovated it in 2000. Along the way, this engineering department participated in post season Cubs broadcasts in 1984, 1989, 1998 and 2003. The 1986 Bears World Championship coverage included a live broadcast from our mobile studio in New Orleans with Mayor Harold Washington hosting a Chicago party in the Big Easy, and 3 days of extensive broadcasting that ended with Bob Collins riding in a bus from O’Hare with the team while broadcasting live on a cell phone during the Bears victory ride to downtown. It was an amazing time.
Working for WGN has always been interesting, challenging and never dull. When I decided to accept this job in 1970 I had no idea that I would be here 35 years but I can honestly say that I think it was one of the best decisions of my life because I have thoroughly enjoyed working with all of the talented people that work at this radio station.
BEARS FOOTBALL:
One my many assignments in those early days was to engineer the Bears broadcasts. Jack Brickhouse was the play-by-play announcer, Irv Kupcinet was the color commentator and Jack Rosenberg was the on site producer. In those days the Bears played their home games at Wrigley Field. Those were the days of Bobby Douglas and Jack Concannon at quarterback. The games were awfully dull because the Bears were losing pretty regularly. The only thing interesting about the games was watching Dick Butkus go after the running backs and quarterbacks with fire in his eyes.
As regular as clockwork, half hour before the game started, a package would arrive from Eli’s with corned beef sandwiches. Irv Kupcinet really loved those sandwiches. In fact, Jack and Irv had a regular routine going during those boring games. Irv would grab a sandwich and start eating it and Brickhouse would wait until Irv had a mouth full of corned beef before asking him a question. He would make a point of asking “and what do you think Irv?” Most of the time the best Kupcinet could manage was a very choked up “that’s right Jack.” It was a routine that they would use often. Jack never got tired of trying to catch Irv while he was trying to enjoy his sandwich. I guess he figured that if he couldn’t eat during the broadcast, he wasn’t going to let Irv get away with it either.
There was one other memorable Bears moment from the early 70’s. That was the day Bob Hope stopped in to say hello. It was brutally cold that day and the booth at Wrigley Field did not have a heater or any windows. The wind felt like it could slice through you and it was somewhere around 10 degrees that day. I had brought one small electric heater from the studio that I positioned on the floor to try to keep the frostbite away from our toes. It didn’t help much but I think it gave us a psychological boost. We would take turns positioning it to get the bone chilling cold out of our shoes.
When Bob Hope came in he was very cheerful but he looked so cold he was literally shaking. He was joking with Brickhouse and Kupcinet on the air about how cold it was and then he turned to me and he said “hey buddy, do you mind if I put my foot in your stove for a while?” We thought it was hilarious and certainly better than the game on field where the Bears were losing as usual. He stayed just a few more minutes before he headed to warmer places but he was probably the highlight of that game, at least for me.
Those are my memories from the early Bears days at Wrigley Field. I also did baseball games there with Vince Lloyd and Lou Boudreau and I can assure you, those were much warmer.
Today on RAISING the BAR David Hochberg is joined in studio by Amir Tahmassebi and Michael Corsi of Konnicek and Dillon, P.C. and joining us on the phone is attorney Bob Cummins and former multi-athelete at Johns Hopkins University and now a young attorney, Kelly Hoffman to talk all about Title IX, what it is and what it means.
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