View Post ShopTalk Weigel Broadcasting Names Three Executives to Movies! Network By Merrill Knox on May. 9, 2013 - 5:28 PM Weigel Broadcasting has named three network managers for its Movies! Network, a joint project with Fox Television Stations. Garth Franklin has been named network creative leader for the Me-TV Network and Movies!. Franklin comes fr ...
ShopTalk | TV Biz Weigel Broadcasting’s Howard Shapiro Dies at 86 By Merrill Knox on May. 25, 2012 - 2:17 PM Howard Shapiro, the chairman of Weigel Broadcasting, died on Thursday from complications of pneumonia. He was 86. “A larger-than-life figure in Chicago business and broadcasting for decades, Howard guided Weigel Broadcasting ...