Jack Brickhouse Award for Excellence in Broadcast Media

Since 1973, Milt Rosenberg has been host of WGN Radio's "Extension 720", a two-hour discussion show with one hour reserved for call-ins. The program, which airs Monday through Friday from 9 to 11 p.m., deals with topics ranging from politics to financial investment to entertainment to religion to foreign policy to literature, and, as Milt says, "just about everything except pop psychology and poodle-trimming." Listeners from thirty-eight states, and increasingly from around the world via the Internet, tune in every night to hear Milt.

Past guests of note include such political figures as Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, George Stephanopolous, George Shultz, Cyrus Vance and many members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Among other interesting public figures who have appeared on the program: Colin Powell, Charlton Heston, William Safire, Bill Murray, William Bennett, Richard Posner, Bob Feller, Betty Friedan, Zbignew Brzezinski, Cynthia Ozick, Norman Mailer, Mary Higgins Clark, Calvin Trillin, P.D. James, Peggy Noonan, David Brinkley, George Will, Gerry Spence, Jim Lehrer, Michael Medved and on and on—virtually a cast of thousands of interesting and significant people.

Outside of WGN Radio 720 studios, in what he calls "real life," Milt is a professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, where he has served as the director of the doctoral program in Social and Organizational Psychology. Prior to coming to Chicago, he taught at Yale, Ohio State University and Dartmouth College. For a brief period he served on the staff of the Naval War College and he has lectured at various other universities both in the United States and abroad. His degrees are from Brooklyn College (B.A.), University of Wisconsin (M.A.), and University of Michigan (Ph.D.).

A prolific author of numerous articles, both in professional journals and political magazines, he has also authored or co-authored a number of books. Among these are: Attitude Organization and Change; Theories of Cognitive Consistency; Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy; Beyond Conflict and Containment: Critical Studies of Military and Foreign Policy; and Vietnam and the Silent Majority.

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