848; 05 Monday Morning Business Update; 06 Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection; 01 Television News Choices; 02 WXAV's 30th Anniversary; 03 Blind Baseball Players Prepare for World Series; 04 A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 10
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- 848
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- 06 Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection
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- 01 Television News Choices
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- 02 WXAV's 30th Anniversary
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- WBEZ
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- WBEZ (Chicago, Illinois)
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- 05 Last week, Elk Grove Township based United Airlines posted its largest quarterly profit in seven years. The news stunned many analysts on Wall Street . After all, United was deep in the throws of bankruptcy less than 2 years ago. But the big question is whether friendly skies are still ahead for the airline. Meanwhile, heavy traffic, big storms and growing legal battles are making this a summer of turbulence at OHare. Eight Forty-Eights Business Contributor David Greising is with us by phone. Music Button: Arrested Development Mamas Always On Stage from the CD 3 Years 5 Months 2 Days in the Life Of. (EMI records)
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- 06 Both blues and hip hop are deeply rooted in African American culture, but each represents the sound of a different generation. Arrested Developments 1992 track Mamas Always on Stage, a song built on a sampled Junior Wells harmonica riff, is but one example of what can happen when the two sensibilities are brought together. A more recent development thats bringing together artists from both Chicagos blues and hip hop communities is called the Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection. Its was put together a few years ago by Chicago bluesman Billy Branch and Steppenwolf Theatres newly appointed Producer of Cultural Intersections Sylvia Ewing. A performance of Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection will take place tonight Millenium Parks Pritzker Pavilion. Ewing, along with harmonica player Russ Green, wholl be a part of tonights concert, stopped in to tell us about the event. Ewing says the idea to create Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection sprung from a desire to give young people a connection to the blues.
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- Episode We hear the story of an award-winning South Side college radio station that began broadcasting 30 years ago in a phone booth. Plus, business contributor David Greising brings us the latest on earnings for United and Boeing. And we talk with producer Sylvia Ewing and musician Russ Green about the upcoming Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection performance.
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- 01 The July sweeps are coming to a close for local TV stations in Chicago. That means a temporary end to special programs, special reports and special promotions. Stations spend millions of dollars each year to ensure their local newscasts are tops in the minds of as many viewers as possible. But a new study from Northwestern Universitys Media Management Center and the Medill School of Journalism suggest that most Chicago viewers really cant tell the difference from one station to another. Thats in part because the content of most local newscasts is almost identical. According to the study, less than half of every newscast is actually devoted to news. And more than one third of local news coverage consists of stories about crimes, fires and accidents. The analysis comes as stations here and elsewhere are struggling with declining audiences and growing competition. And theyre not the only ones. Newspapers and radio stations are also facing some of their biggest audience challenges ever. In the midst of this mass media metamorphosis, the big question is what will be the impact on local news coverage? Local news has been taking it on the chin in recent years in the wake of cost cuts and media consolidation. But some see a silver lining in the current mega media maladies. Thom Clark is the head of the Community Media Workshop at Columbia College Chicago and hes with us now in studio.
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- 02 Community members on Chicagos North Side were recently disappointed to hear that they may not have as strong a say in programming at WLUW. The station has been run for the past five years by Chicago Public Radio, but Loyola University recently exercised its option to reclaim the station for student use. Now, some who have been involved in the success of the community-oriented station over the years have formed the Chicago Independent Radio Projecta group intent on securing a license from the FCC to operate a new low power FM community radio station. Thats how the story of a more successful college radio station on the south side began. And it all began 30 years ago with two students and a phone booth. WXAV has since grown to a full-fledged broadcast station, at 88.3 FM, and has won numerous awards for its programming. In honor of the stations 30th anniversary, Rob Quicke produced an hour-long documentary on its history. Hes the former director of Student Media for Saint Xavier, who now teaches and coordinates media at William Patterson University in New Jersey. Quicke says the stations founders took a big risk when they began playing music out of a phone booth connected to the schools switchboard. Hear Rob Quicke's hour-long documentary on WXAV.
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- 03 The World Series starts this week. No not that World Series or the one involving poker or pop culture. This one is unlike anything you've ever seen. Fourteen teams will head to Minnesota to battle for Beep Baseball's World Series crown. The balls beep, the bases buzz and the pitchers are on the same team as the hitters. For Chicago Public Radio, reporter Alex Helmick has the story of the Chicago Comets, a team that's truly in a league all their own.
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- 04 About 750 people converged in Chicago this past weekend for the 2007 BlogHer Conference to discuss their online journals and meet the faces behind the screen names. Well, here at Eight Forty-Eight we have our own blogger S.L. Wisenberg, a Chicago-based writer whos been keeping an online diary about life with breast cancer. Weve been sharing excerpts, and today we continue just after her mastectomy.
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Distributor: WBEZ
Producing Organization: WBEZ
Production Unit: 848
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Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) and Vocalo.org
Identifier: 10570 (WBEZ)
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- Chicago: “848; 05 Monday Morning Business Update; 06 Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection; 01 Television News Choices; 02 WXAV's 30th Anniversary; 03 Blind Baseball Players Prepare for World Series; 04 A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 10,” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-45cc2kxk.
- MLA: “848; 05 Monday Morning Business Update; 06 Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection; 01 Television News Choices; 02 WXAV's 30th Anniversary; 03 Blind Baseball Players Prepare for World Series; 04 A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 10.” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-45cc2kxk>.
- APA: 848; 05 Monday Morning Business Update; 06 Blues/Hip-Hop Intersection; 01 Television News Choices; 02 WXAV's 30th Anniversary; 03 Blind Baseball Players Prepare for World Series; 04 A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 10. Boston, MA: WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-45cc2kxk