Jim Corno, a beloved, admired and respected broadcast executive who led Comcast SportsNet Chicago and its predecessors in Chicago for three decades, died Tuesday after a long bout with cancer. He was 66.

“When it came to Chicago sports television, no one worked harder and had more passion for delivering these events to us night after night than Jim,” Jeff Nuich, senior director of communications for Comcast SportsNet, wrote in an online tribute. “Simply put, every regional sports network this city has ever known — SportsVision, SportsChannel, Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet — has been run by only one individual: Jim Corno.”

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Sounds like he was a top shelf human being.

RIP.

I'm sure he was a great guy and he was obviously a giant in Chicago sports broadcasting, but there's something a little disturbing about the way the media covers the deaths of their own. It seems as if they lose all sense of proportion. Nothing against Corno. I'm sure he was the greatest boss ever, a television innovator, and a first class gentleman. But it's a bit much for the rest of the world who didn't really know him. That's what wakes and funerals are for. I mean, for a minute there last night I thought they were going to preempt the Hawks and the Bulls and just continue his tribute.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

She doesnt agree with any of this praise!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Probably wasn't his call.

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Yeah, W. Rockwell was behind her firing, wasn't he?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Its his call to listen to one of the many owners/investors. If this guy was Mr Integrity, he would have never fired her. her stuff prior to CSn wasnt that racy and it was almost cablevision. Plus, the fact he missed it makes him look like a total boob, because I am 100% sure he was the one with the final word on hiring her.

Plus, this is the guy who hired/cut a deal with Mike North. Not that it cost him that much money, but if they are going to be a cable station, the open the doors and let any idiot buy time.

Nothing this guy did is amazing. he just happen to be the guy with the remote.

Is there really any programming on CSN that you can say "You have to watch this" CTL? Gas Money?

They broadcast games and then have some piss poor analysis for each team. Its local cable upgraded.

I know Rocky didnt like what he saw, but step up and defend the person YOU HIRED!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

That's fair. Obviously her work on that show wasn't a secret when he hired her.

But I didn't intend to turn this thread into the bashing of a dead guy. I was just saying that all the tribute stuff was a little over the top. Not that I minded it. I actually found it interesting. But I'm not the average viewer. I spend an inordinate amount of time on a message board dedicated to Chicago sports and sports media. I can imagine my mom flipping to the Hawks game and calling me to ask who the hell Jim Corno was.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I just remember his name being mentioned at the end of every broadcast, like Joe Cornejo or Arne Harris......

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..or Mike North

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

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Ed Farmer will miss him.

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On the money. CSN is a garbage channel outside the game telecasts, and even those were rather poorly produced until the NBC merger.

There are too many sports channels and too much content to generate. The old Sportschannel/Fox Sports Net approach of basically being a national channel that broke away for local games was probably better than having to do all this crap like a cheap local Sportscenter, fifth-rate Bears pregame, and Gas Money.

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How could you guys rip CSN. They had the Monsters in the Morning!!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I don't remember Arnie Harris getting covered like that when he passed. He was another "off-camera" guy that was constantly mentioned on air.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I think there was a fair share of writing about Arne Harris when he passed, but he practically wrote the book on how to produce a baseball telecast. That's a little different.

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I was hoping this was not going to be about Jim Cornette.

Don't scare me like that.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Attended Arnies funeral,similar stuff said.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Right, but when Wrigley Field became a national destination, it was because he presented it as a national destination: the ballhawks, the hot chicks in the bleachers, the little kids clumsily eating ice cream cones.

There's a lot more old baseball on youtube than there used to be. I can see now that it's like night and day comparing old Cubs games with the quotidian local productions elsewhere. The Reds showed Reds games. The Cubs took you to a place.

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Meaningless. People just love the Cubs. They would love them even more in a 70,000 seat stadium with Disney-style shops in Schaumburg.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Just looked up his obituary and saw that he came up with the center field camera as the primary camera. I know it used to be behind home plate, but I never knew that was his doing. Interesting.

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Arne produced Cub broadcasts for 20 years before Wrigley became a "national destination". Harry Caray joining the broadcast was much more closely timed to the rise in popularity. The dramatic upgrade of the neighborhood in the mid-80's also played a large role.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

And the powerhouse '84 team. And the overachievers in '89. And the release of Field of Dreams. It was a perfect storm.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don