Posted by Mr. Freeze on July 08, 2008 at 19:30:06:
In Reply to: Tribune grabs another former Jacor posted by chicagomedia.org on July 08, 2008 at 11:15:53:
Can't say I know who Tim Dukes is... but he sounds like a good enough guy if he got out of radio and went into finance. ;)
Good luck this time around! In Corporate!
: Tribune Knows Dukes
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: Tribune has bagged yet another former Jacor family member: Tim Dukes has been dragged back into the fold as Tribune’s newly named VP/Promotions for its broadcasting and interactive divisions. Tribune Interactive president Marc Chase remarked, “[Tribune senior VP/programming & entertainment] Sean Compton and I wanted one special person to lead our national promotional efforts online and on-air. When we couldn’t find that person, we went to Tim instead, and we got to proudly state to Tribune CEO Randy Michaels that we didn’t go back to the well for this one. He’s the first stiff we’ve hired from a Wall Street firm!”
: Dukes’s 20-plus-year radio career began with Jacor and lasted until February 2007, when he left Emmis classic rock WLUP/Chicago. Several months later, he joined Wachovia Securities as a financial advisor. “I ignored Marc and Sean at first,” Dukes says of the duo’s overtures. “I was finally in a respectable career and hoped they’d stop calling. Then they showed up in my office lobby, and, like Jake and Elwood in The Blues Brothers restaurant scene, set out to embarrass me at work: tossing food into each others mouths, locking arms while eating shrimp cocktail and talking in lousy French accents. I resigned on the spot just so they’d knock it off.”
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