{"id":10140,"date":"2016-01-18T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2016-01-18T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:46:42","slug":"robservations-kris-kelley-leaves-radio-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/01\/18\/robservations-kris-kelley-leaves-radio-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Kris Kelley remembered for legacy of talent"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kris<\/a>

<\/a> Kris Kelley<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

The radio world was saddened Sunday by news of the untimely death of Kris Kelley,<\/strong> former midday personality on urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7<\/a> and former program director of urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5 <\/a>and Top 40 WKSC FM 103.5.<\/a> Kelley, who was 45, was found dead last week in her Philadelphia apartment, according to published reports.<\/a> A 15-year employee of Clear Channel Radio, the predecessor of iHeart Media, Kelley exited the company in December 2013. \u201cWhile Kris Kelley took great pride in her ratings, her joy came from discovering new talent and developing leaders,\u201d Tony Coles,<\/strong> senior vice president\/programming for iHeart Media, wrote on Facebook.<\/a> \u201cShe did not make the process easy for them - because she knew that getting what you really want is never an easy process. She left us too soon, but we are so thankful for her legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Antonio<\/a>

Antonio Mora<\/p><\/div>\n

Antonio Mora,<\/strong> former news anchor at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, <\/a>says he has no regrets about his two-year stint with Al Jazeera America,<\/a> where he most recently anchored the 9 p.m. international news hour. The cable news network owned by the Qatari government announced last week it will cease operations <\/a>by April 30. \u201cI have loved working at a network that was dedicated to smart, serious non-partisan news,\u201d Mora told Media Moves.<\/a> \u201cI felt AJAM provided a valuable news source to most of the country and I am very sad this chapter in my life is ending.\u201d Mora had been main news anchor at CBS 2 for six years until 2008. Among other former Chicagoans affected by the shutdown are Ray Suarez,<\/strong> onetime reporter for NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 <\/a>and host of Al Jazeera America\u2019s \u201cInside Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Adriana<\/a>

Adriana Cardona-Maguigad<\/p><\/div>\n

Univision Chicago WGBO-Channel 66<\/a> has added award-winning Colombian journalist Adriana Cardona-Maguigad<\/strong> to its staff as a full-time investigative producer and reporter. Cardona-Maguigad is co-founder and former editor of The Gate, <\/a>a hyperlocal bilingual community newspaper on Chicago\u2019s Southwest Side. As a contributor to \u201cThis American Life\u201d and Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5,<\/a> she drew acclaim last year for her investigation<\/a> into how Puerto Rico exports drug addicts to the streets of Chicago through a network of unregulated rehab centers. Earlier she was a Pritzker Journalism Fellow at Chicago Public Media and in the inaugural class of Northwestern University's Social Justice News Nexus Fellowship.<\/p>\n

\"Molly<\/a>

Molly Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s life after TouchVision <\/a>for Molly Adams,<\/strong> who delivered commentary on the now-defunct <\/a>multi-platform digital programming service. Before joining TouchVision last March, Adams was co-host of \u201cThe Morning AMp\u201d call-in talk show on Chicago Public Media\u2019s Vocalo.<\/a> Now she\u2019s shifting her focus to entertainment media, including a show developed with former Vocalo partner Brian Babylon<\/strong> at the Laugh Factory<\/a>\u00a0on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Premiering Tuesday, \u201cFirst Amendment\u201d will be accessible in video segments online and as an audio podcast. \u201cI'm excited to see what other projects I create in the coming months,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

\"Walter<\/a>

Walter J. Podrazik<\/p><\/div>\n

Thirty-four years after they first published their landmark book Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television,<\/em> Harry Castleman<\/strong> and Walter J. Podrazik<\/strong> have just released the third edition, now titled Watching TV: Eight Decades of American Television.<\/a> <\/em>Published by Syracuse University Press (and weighing in at 576 pages), it\u2019s a meticulously researched history and analysis of programs and trends, chronicling every primetime fall schedule since 1944. Chicagoans know Podrazik as a prominent media historian and curator of the Museum of Broadcast Communications.<\/a> He also teaches television history, media and politics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Castleman is a Boston lawyer and media consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: The radio world was saddened Sunday by news of the untimely death of Kris Kelley, former midday personality on urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7 and former program director of urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5 and Top 40 WKSC FM 103.5. Kelley, who was 45, was found dead last week in... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}