Event
Press Coverage
Before, during and after the naming ceremony/event on January 27,
2004, the University received international, national, regional and
local press coverage in the following mediums:
Print
USA Today, Daily Herald, Waukegan News-Sun, Daily Herald, Chicago
Tribune, Gurnee Press, Women's Financial Network Online, St. Charles-Wayne-Elburn
Daily Herald, Warrenville/West Chicago/Winfield Daily Herald, Wheaton/Glen
Ellen Daily Herald, Lombard/Oak Brook/Villa Park Daily Herald, Mount
Prospect/Prospect Heights Daily Herald, Geneva Daily Herald, Libertyville
Daily Herald, The Lincoln-Way Sun (Chicago), Lisle/Naperville
Daily Herald, ICMA-RC VantageLink (Washington, DC), Carol
Stream/Glendale Heights Daily Herald, Fox Lake/Round Lake Edition
Daily Herald, Bartlette/Hanover Park/Streamwood Daily Herald, Bloomingdale/Itasca
Daily Herald, Buffalo Grove/Long Grove/Wheeling Daily Herald
Television
The following stations have covered the ceremony to date:
CLTV (IND) Chicago, IL; WBBM (CBS) Chicago, IL; KCAL (IND) Los Angeles,
CA; WRBL (CBS) Columbus, GA; WRDW (CBS) Augusta, GA; WFLD (FOX) Chicago,
IL; WCIA (CBS) Champaign & Springfield-Decatur, IL; WKBW (ABC)
Buffalo, NY; KDCT Opelousas, LA; WABI (CBS) Bangor, ME
Radio
To date, interviews with Dr. K. Michael Welch and Roland Franklin
reached more than 14,000,000 listeners nationwide and internationally:
NPR; USA Radio Network; AP Radio Network; KYW Radio AM (Philadelphia);
Good News Broadcast.com (International); WIOD Radio AM (Miami); WHUD
Radio AM (Westchester); KXL Radio AM (Portland); KCMN Radio AM (Colorado
Springs)
To date, 475 stations have covered various aspects of the event, reaching
approximately 15,683,407 people in the following markets:
New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; San
Francisco, CA; Boston, MA; Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX; Washington D.C.;
Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX; Seattle-Tacoma, WA; Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota,
FL; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Phoenix, AZ; Cleveland, OH; Miami-Ft.
Lauderdale, FL; Denver, CO; Cleveland, OH; Sacramento, CA; Orlando-Daytona
Beach, FL; St. Louis, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Baltimore, MD; Portland,
OR; Indianapolis, IN; San Diego, CA; Hartford, CT; Charlotte, NC;
Raleigh-Durham, NC; Nashville, TN; Kansas City, MO; Columbus, OH;
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC; Salt Lake City, UT; San Antonio, TX; Grand
Rapids, MI; West Palm Beach, FL; Birmingham, AL; Norfolk, VA; New
Orleans, LA; Memphis, TN; Buffalo, NY; Oklahoma City, OK; Greensboro-High
Point, NC; Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA; Providence, RI;
Albuquerque-Santa Fe, NM; Louisville, KY; Las Vegas, NV; Jacksonville,
FL; Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, PA; Albany, NY; Little Rock, AR; Fresno,
CA; Richmond, VA; Dayton, OH; Tulsa, OK; Knoxville, TN; Knoxville,
TN; Mobile-Pensacola, FL; Knoxville, TN; Mobile-Pensacola, FL; Charleston-Huntington,
WV; Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, MI; Lexington, KY; Roanoke, VA; Wichita-Hutchinson,
KS; Green Bay, WI; Toledo, OH; Ft. Myers-Naples FL; Tucson, AZ; Portland-Auburn,
ME; Rochester, NY; Paducah, KY; Omaha, NE; Springfield, MO; Spokane,
WA; Shreveport, LA; Huntsville, AL; Columbia, SC; Madison, WI; Chattanooga,
GA; South Bend-Elkhart, IN; Cedar Rapids, IA; Burlington-Plattsburgh,
VT; Jackson, MS; Tri Cities, TN-VA; Waco, TX; Colorado Springs-Pueblo,
CO; Davenport-Rock Island, IA; Baton Rouge, LA; Johnstown-Altoona,
PA; Evansville, KY; El Paso, TX; Lincoln, NE; Greenville-New Bern,
NC; Charleston, SC; Fort Wayne, IN; Springfield, MA; Tyler, TX; Ft.
Smith-Fayetteville, Springdale, AR; Tallahassee, FL; Traverse City,
MI; Sioux Falls, SD; Sioux Falls, SD; Augusta, GA; Montgomery, AL;
Reno, NV; Fargo, ND; Santa Barbara, CA; Eugene, OR; Monterey-Salinas-Santa
Cruz, CA; Macon, GA; Boise, ID; Lafayette, LA; La Crosse, WI; Yakima,
WA; Corpus Christi, TX; Amarillo, TX; Bakersfield, CA; Columbus-Tupelo-West
Point, MS; Chico-Redding, CA; Monroe, LA; Duluth-Superior, MN; Topeka,
KS; Columbia-Jefferson City, MO; Medford, OR; Erie, PA; Wichita Falls,
TX; Sioux City, IA; Albany, GA; Joplin, MO; Terre Haute, IN; Salisbury,
MD; Bluefield-Beckley, WV; Wheeling-Steubenville, WV; Rochester-Mason
City-Austin, MN-IA; Binghamton, NY; Anchorage, AK; Biloxi-Gulfport,
MS; Odessa-Midland, TX; Panama City, FL; Palm Springs, CA; Gainesville,
FL; Idaho Falls-Pocatello, ID; Clarksburg-Weston, WV; Quincy-Hannibal,
IL; Utica, NY; Missoula, MT; Billings, MT; Dothan, AL; Yuma-El Centro,
AZ; Elmira, NY; Rapid City, SD; Alexandria, LA; Watertown, NY; Jonesboro,
AR; Bowling Green, KY; Greenwood-Greenville, Jackson, TN; Charlottesville,
VA; Great Falls, MT; Eureka, CA; Butte, MT; Cheyenne, WY; Casper-Riverton,
WY; Zanesville, OH; Presque Isle, ME; Helena, MT; Alpena, MI; US Territories,
VI; U.S. Armed Forces Radio Worldwide
Online
To date, the following Web sites have covered the University's name
change:
News Stream, Business Wire, CBS MarketWatch, CNN Money, CrainsChicago.com,
DallasNews.com, Finance Canada, Lycos, MedicalDevices.org, NBC6.com,
National Hispanic Corporate Council, News Alert, Yahoo!, University
Business, AAMC STAT
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