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What kind of a news baron would Sam Zell make? With Tribune Co. seriously considering the Chicago real estate billionaire's buyout offer, it's no idle question. Besides amassing the nation's largest collection of office buildings in his Equity Office...

IF THERE is one thing Hollywood understands, it's casting. That's why the industry's Democratic activists are rallying behind Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as November's leading man, with some still open to the idea of a supporting role for Sen. Hillary...

Harry Kalas, the longtime voice of baseball's Philadelphia Phillies who also had a familiar role as an announcer on NFL radio broadcasts and as the narrator of the league's action for NFL Films, died Monday. He was 73. Kalas, who punctuated innumerable...

Randy Jackson, a Grammy Award-winning producer, is a 20-year music industry veteran. He started out playing bass at the age of 13, and got his big break when he joined the band Journey. As a musician and producer, he also spent eight years as Vice...

The NFL Network this morning finally announced what WatchDog reported June 25: That Giants radio man Bob Papa has been hired to succeed Bryant Gumbel as its play-by-play voice alongside Cris Collinsworth. Excellent choice. Click below for the news...

What did WFAN morning man Boomer Esiason think of the breakup of "Mike and the Mad Dog?" Here is what he told me at the CBS pre-season NFL luncheon Tuesday: "I'm not surprised at all, and I don???t think anybody......

Westwood One could be out as the NFL's exclusive national radio partner, according to John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal.......

Odds and ends from Giants Stadium Sunday/Monday: 1. I asked Mike Murphy, the Giants' long-time security head, what he said to Donovan McNabb when the Eagles quarterback ended up on the Giants sideline and jokingly picked up a phone: "I......

Seconds before a radio biz tipster told me Westwood One and the NFL finally had agreed to terms, Sports Business Daily/Journal sent word of that very thing from Old Reliable John Ourand. (This presumably means Marv Albert and Boomer Esiason......

Ted Weiant speaks with the unabashed pride of someone who has found the holy grail of domestic winter comfort: He and his wife, Joan Stein, he says, are "fireplace freaks." And there are three holy grails in the home of Weiant and Stein. The couple...

An impressive array of talent from the worlds of music, film and television mounted a low-key but inspirational celebration of the American spirit Friday in a history-making, two-hour telethon to raise money for victims and their families of the terrorist...

Bob Dylan stares idly at the paperback book that someone has brought aboard his custom tour bus, which is speeding through the snowy Wisconsin countryside in the midnight hour. He has just finished a concert in Madison and is on his way to South Bend,...