A native of Peru, Alvarez most recently was an on-air personality at Superestrella 107.1 FM in Los Angeles. He has worked in the radio and television industry for more than 15 years producing commercials and serving as a morning show personality both in Peru and the United States. "He (Ysaac) is an experienced on-air personality that has a lot to bring to the table," said Mega 95.5 program director Ricardo Otero.

Several years ago, the Chicago Creative Club Awards supposedly supplanted the local Addy Awards show as the major local competition to showcase creative excellence in the Chicago advertising community. But with the shrinking of the local ad industry and the glaring absence of any strong local industry leadership in recent years, the CCC Awards infrastructure collapsed. There was no local awards show in 2010.

For the past year, a committee of local ad executives has been exploring what kind of awards show Chicago should have and how it should be structured. Last we heard, the exploration was still in progress. The CAF board of directors apparently concluded the Addy Awards competition was the best option for local agencies -- at least in the short term. The CAF hasn't yet decided whether it will host an actual awards show in conjunction with the local Addy competition.

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I've always had a soft spot for Chicago advertising," said Peterson in an interview Tuesday. His first full-time job in advertising was at a small, now defunct Chicago agency. The majority of his career has been in New York. But Peterson said he used to stand in front of the Leo Burnett building and imagine it was Disneyland. If Peterson has been following Burnett in recent years, however, it might be more difficult for him to conjure such a fantasy.

But one thing is certain: Peterson has a big job ahead of him if he is to succeed at making Euro RSCG/Chicago a major player. First he will have to contend with the absence of any significant, high-profile above-the-line accounts. Euro is said to be in hot pursuit of the Sonic fast food chain account, but if the shop doesn't land that piece of business, Peterson will have to look elsewhere for an account that he could parlay into a calling card to attract additional new business to Euro. And new business is what the agency desperately needs to begin to rebound.

Plus, Peterson will have to contend with the fact Euro RSCG's below-the-line business has been the tail wagging the dog for some time now. Absent that, the agency probably would have closed its doors long ago. Peterson expressed excitement about working with Euro leader Ron Bess ("the most genuine man I've met in the business") and with Joy Schwartz and Jamie King, who have been doing most of the hands-on running of Euro RSCG/Chicago and trolling for new business.

But King was a good friend of Steffan Postaer. With Postaer removed from any position of real power, the landscape at Euro RSCG is considerably changed from what it was when King arrived. And sources now say King may not be sticking around much longer to see what Peterson can accomplish.

At Translation/New York, his most recent outpost, Peterson was focused on work aimed at adolescent and young adult demos. He said he wants to run a creative department and work on a "wider palette" now, and he intends to make that happen at Euro RSCG. Peterson plans to move his family to Chicago, so he looks to be serious. As it always does though, only time will tell what Peterson can achieve.

Hull is seen in the spot reading from the new book. The excerpt suggests Hull is responsible for the winning goal that gave the Hawks their 2010 Stanley Cup victory. But an astute young boy among the kids Hull is reading to speaks up to correct Hull on the matter of who scored the winning goal. It was Patrick Kane, not Hull. But Hull will have none of it.

The remainder of the spot is taken up with some perfunctory info about the new book. Hull, of course, does a fine job playing Hull, but overall, the spot lacks the kind of drama or the emotional hook that some of the better Hawks commercials of recent vintage have exhibited.

Peterson attended the Portfolio Center in Atlanta and got his first job as an art director in advertising at the defunct Arian Lowe in Chicago, before moving on to New York, where he worked at Berlin Cameron and at Fallon before heading to Translation, where he is both executive creative director and a partner in the shop.

In his new role as Euro RSCG/Chicago chairman, Postaer, who was moved out of the chief creative officer job at Euro RSCG to make way for Peterson, will work on special projects for the agency and involve himself in pitches where appropriate, a spokesman said.

Postaer apparently also will be paid to continue working on his personal blog and his writing projects, which in recent years have included two novels -- one self-published and another about a gay interior decorator that has been released on the web in installments over the past several months.

Me-TV will feature a 24/7 format showcasing many of the key, iconic series in genres such as comedy, drama, western adventure and crime/courtroom/detective series. Weigel has secured long-term licensing agreements for more than 50 individual series spanning the 1950's through the 1980's from multiple studios and independent producers.

"Jason has done some great work for some of the country's biggest brands," said Bess. "But what really attracted us to him was that he represents the future of creativity. He understands the new dynamic that digital and social media have brought to our clients, and I believe he can motivate our creative teams to come up with future-focused, big ideas in this space," added Bess.

As executive creative director at New York-based Translation, Peterson worked on business for McDonald's, Target, State Farm and Wrigley. Prior to Translation, he was a creative director and founding partner at Berlin Cameron and Partners/New York.

"Recently, there's been a lot of talk about chief creative officers with a lack of traditional and digital knowledge, when in reality there aren't many forward thinking agencies," said Peterson. "Euro RSCG has the best handle on new media and still knows the idea is essential. That's why they were the clear choice for me. Great creatives have caught up and what everyone should be looking for are people with big ideas," said Peterson.

As executive creative director at New York-based Translation, Peterson worked on business for McDonald's, Target, State Farm and Wrigley. Prior to Translation, he was a creative director and founding partner at Berlin Cameron and Partners/New York.

What is almost totally glossed over in the extended portion of the Department's response that deals with Kokkalis and the various criminal indictments against him in years past is the fact that he was, according to the report, acquitted of all those past charges. Which, to us, begs the question: Are the charges really as damning as the Department of Revenue and Kroll would have us believe. In the eyes of the Department of Revenue and Kroll officials, dirt is dirt apparently. And it was enough for them merely to trot out the indictments and suggest Kokkalis and everything he may have touched was therefore tainted.

Intralot, we're told, is preparing a formal response to the Department of Revenue's formal response that should be in the Department's hands by Friday. And the protest goes on. We've heard that the state inspector general may be compelled to take a closer look at a lot of what has happened over the past four months before any contract is signed with the Northstar Lottery Group that Gov. Pat Quinn named the winner of the Lottery management contract on Sept. 15.

Now sources are reporting Steffan Postaer could be the next top creative out the door. Postaer's reign at Euro RSCG has been something considerably less than a complete success. With the blessing of Euro RSCG/Chicago leader Ron Bess, Postaer arrived in 2004 with the goal of helping complete the turnaround of a shop that been struggling for some time.

But Postaer wasn't able to develop much momentum on the new business front. Valspar paint was about as good as it got for the top creative who had helped transform Altoids into an iconic breath mint brand during his long tenure at Leo Burnett/Chicago. Creatively, there were occasional sparks of the sort that he brought to the unconventional Altoids work. But not enough.

To the consternation of some at Euro RSCG/Chicago, Postaer spent much of his free time during his tenure at the agency writing a couple of unusual novels. The latest dealt with a gay decorator, and the author released it chapter by chapter on the Internet.

It's unclear what might be the next step for Postaer. He thought long and hard before casting his fate with Euro RSCG. With the agency business rapidly evolving into something much different than it was even when Postaer came to Euro RSCG, it's hard to say what might be a good fit for him going forward.

Current WFLD meteorologist Amy Freeze's contract is set to expire by year's end. No decision has been made about whether Freeze's contract will be renewed. If Freeze winds up departing the station, Bellis could become her replacement.

Ryan is the former principal and co-leader of Rebar Partners. Prior to Rebar, Ryan was executive vice-president, global client service director at Energy BBDO/chicago, where he led the integrated global agency marketing team for Beam Global Spirits & Wine and provided strategic leadership to Wrigley global marketing and to the Chicago White Sox. During his time at Energy BBDO, Ryan oversaw a global agency team of approximately 75 marketing professionals handling traditional and digital communications.

Song is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. During her time at Medill, song worked on air for the Korean Broadcasting Channel in Chicago. Song also was an intern at Channel 2 in the summer of 2003.