that's how today went for bill kirkpatrick of northbrook.t union station and was met by the chief executive of discover card. kirkpatrick had won the grand prize in the credit card company's annual sweepstakes. he got a check for one-million dollars and a serving of cake. kirkpatrick says he'll use the money for his 14-year old son's college education. the family knew they'd won something and so the whole family was there. at the end of the month, wgn will not be available on directv anymore. wgn's parent tribune company, will stop providing programming to the satellite company at the end of this month because the two sides couldn't reach a deal on payment. this affects all tribune programming carried on directv, including wgn, wgn america and antenna tv. directv issued a statement saying they will continue to negotiate and believe tribune's programming is important to the public. tribune says its programming on directv ends march 31st at midnight. for more information visit wgntv.com. coming up the bulls performance tonight against the nugg

our publisher, john kirkpatrick, who is been a personal mentor to me. my partners in crime and, of course, our lead reporter on the sandusky story. sarah ganum. at the age of 24 she has as much drive and integrity, she's videotaping me, as much drive and integrity as any journalist i've ever met. is a joy to work with her. may i have the next slide, please? i want to show you a few pages from november, but i will not talk about how we landed the stories because i think it would be boring. there is no magic formula. long hours and shoe-leather journalism by sarah and her colleagues. the funny thing was how the national media kept describing us. they called us the "small patriot news." the tiny "patriot news." i heard somewhere someone marveled the story was coming from the microscopic, subatomic "patriot news." it is true that with 19 full-time news reporters, our staff is not large, but it is equally true that this story did not come out of nowhere. last summer, as you all know, we had an earthquake here on the east coast. when the news room stopped sha