{"id":10854,"date":"2016-03-22T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2016-03-22T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:08:47","slug":"graceless-move-or-oversight-cbs-snubs-shila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/03\/22\/graceless-move-or-oversight-cbs-snubs-shila\/","title":{"rendered":"Graceless move or oversight? CBS Radio snubs Shila Nathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Shila<\/a>

<\/a> Shila Nathan<\/p><\/div>\n

When the winners of this year's Gracie Awards<\/a> were announced Monday, I wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d be writing about them.<\/p>\n

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation bestows the honors each year for \u201cexemplary programming created by, for about women\u201d in all facets of media.\u00a0I remember Kathy O\u2019Malley and Judy Markey won one back in 2008 (a year before they were inexplicably canned from WGN AM 720)<\/a>, but otherwise I haven\u2019t paid much attention to the awards, which are named after the late comedienne Gracie Allen.<\/p>\n

What piqued my interest this time were two press releases I received from CBS Radio touting its winners among this year\u2019s recipients. One release came from CBS Radio nationally (\"Eight CBS Radio Women Are Honored With A 2016 Gracie Award\"<\/a>) and the other from CBS Radio Chicago (\u201cWBBM Newsradio 780 & 105.9 FM\u2019s Felicia Middlebrooks and Lola Vanderpuye Win Prestigious Gracie Awards\u201d)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Felicia<\/a>

Felicia Middlebrooks<\/p><\/div>\n

Both releases highlighted the awards for \u201cAnchor - News or News Magazine - Local\u201d for Felicia Middlebrooks, morning news co-anchor at\u00a0WBBM AM 780 and WCFS FM 105.9, <\/a>and for \u201cImaging - Local [Chicago Cubs Baseball]\u201d for Lola Vanderpuye, production coordinator for WBBM Newsradio.<\/p>\n

But when I searched online for a complete list<\/a> of this year\u2019s winners, a third Chicago name appeared: Cited for \u201cAfternoon Drive Personality - Local\u201d was Shila Nathan, who until a few weeks ago<\/a> worked for WUSN FM 99.5,<\/a> the CBS Radio country music station. The award honors Nathan specifically for her performance at US 99.5, where she\u2019d spent nearly two years.<\/p>\n

So what gives?<\/p>\n

Was her omission an oversight by CBS Radio? Or was it a deliberate (and incredibly petty) snub because Nathan now works for Cumulus Media at a country station in New York? I asked the people who sent out the publicity, but I never heard back from either one.<\/p>\n

As far as Nathan is concerned, she\u2019s not making a big deal about any of it. Other than mentioning the award on Facebook, she declined to comment. \u201cI\u2019m not very good at promoting myself so I just left it there,\u201d she said. \u201cDidn't know what else to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the winners of this year's Gracie Awards were announced Monday, I wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d be writing about them. The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation bestows the honors each year for \u201cexemplary programming created by, for about women\u201d in all facets of media.\u00a0I remember Kathy O\u2019Malley and Judy Markey won one back 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\/10854"}],"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=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10871,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions\/10871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}