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Longtime WGN sports editor Jack Rosenberg dies at age 94Sun-Times staffon December 29, 2020 at 4:38 pm

Former WGN sports editor Jack Rosenberg, shown in a 1958 photo at Comiskey Park, has died at age 94.

Rosenberg, who was a force behind WGN’s sports programming, is credited with helping form the modern sports broadcast.

Longtime WGN-TV and WGN Radio sports editor Jack Rosenberg died earlier this week at age 94.

Rosenberg, who was a force behind WGN’s sports programming, is credited with helping form the modern sports broadcast. He started working at WGN in 1954.

“Jack was sports editor at WGN for 40 years, a career encompassing all Chicago sports teams and thousands of broadcasts,” former WGN director of production Bob Vorwald tweeted. “The sound of his typewriter softly clicking behind Jack Brickhouse was the soundtrack of summer for generations of Cubs fans.”

2) Jack was sports editor at WGN for 40 years, a career encompassing all Chicago sports teams and thousands of broadcasts. The sound of his typewriter softly clicking behind Jack Brickhouse was the soundtrack of summer for generations of Cubs fans. pic.twitter.com/E6n4Bzdf8z

— Bob Vorwald (@BobVorwald) December 28, 2020

Rosenberg was inducted into the WGN Radio Walk of Fame in 2017 and the Silver Circle of the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2011.