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For a kid from Pekin – for a kid from anywhere – Jack Rosenberg led an amazing life. Not everybody can say they helped transform televised coverage of sports. And that coverage helped transform local lovable losers into a major-league baseball franchise with national appeal. Rosenberg died last weekend in Chicago. He was 94. For more than 40 years, Rosenberg was sports editor at WGN radio and television in Chicago. He joined others with Peoria-area lineage in creating what became a TV sports superstation that beamed Chicago Cubs games into living rooms across the country. Rosenberg helped Cubs voices Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray become Baseball Hall of Fame award-winners and national personalities. Rosenberg also shepherded scores of budding broadcasters and earned a sterling reputation in his profession. ....
From his broadcasting peers, a lofty honor for Pat Callaghan Pat Callaghan s 41 years of Maine journalism has resulted in his induction into the New England National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 5:22 AM EST December 17, 2020 PORTLAND, Maine When Pat Callaghan started as a reporter for NEWS CENTER Maine at WLBZ in Bangor in 1979, the equipment was state of the art. He would have shot his interviews and footage on film, which had to be developed before a frame of it could be broadcast; updated the newsroom by pay phone or two-way car radio from out in the field; banged out his story on a manual typewriter while sitting in an office in which it was perfectly fine for anyone to light up a smoke; and, if the story were a big one and had to be sent from Bangor to Portland, hustled to either the Greyhound bus station or the Bar Harbor Airlines desk at the airport to get the finish ....