{"id":18483,"date":"2018-06-22T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2018-06-22T06:39:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:39:49","slug":"robservations-abc-7s-cheryl-scott-great-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/06\/22\/robservations-abc-7s-cheryl-scott-great-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: ABC 7's Cheryl Scott \u2018in such a great place\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Cheryl Scott<\/p><\/div>\n

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

If Cheryl Scott<\/strong> has ambitions beyond forecasting the weather here, she\u2019s not letting on. Thinking about what\u2019s next keeps the WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>meteorologist up at night, she said, but she\u2019s committed to the top-rated ABC-owned station \u2014 her TV home since 2014. \u201cI am in such a great place right now,\u201d Scott, 33, told Laurence Holmes<\/strong> on his \u201cHouse of L\u201d<\/a> podcast this week. \u201cABC is awesome. I\u2019m so fortunate to be where I am. So I just hope to continue to build an even better relationship with the Chicago community, and hopefully they realize that they\u2019re stuck with me because I absolutely love this city and I love my job. It\u2019s interesting being in the media world, in this business, and seeing how everything is kind of starting to change, and there\u2019s so much more being done digitally. So I think it\u2019s more of a crossover, where how you can continue to grow your brand and what you can do on other platforms, which I\u2019ll continue to work on.\u201d (Here is the link.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Lisa Madigan<\/p><\/div>\n

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan<\/strong> and her counterparts in Iowa and Rhode Island petitioned the FCC Thursday to deny the proposed merger <\/a>of Chicago-based Tribune Media and Sinclair Broadcast Group. The $3.9 billion deal would create the largest television broadcast company in the country, encompassing more than 200 stations covering nearly 60 percent of U.S. television households. \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d WGN-Channel 9 and news\/talk WGN 720-AM are included. \u201cThe massive Tribune-Sinclair merger contradicts the FCC\u2019s principles of diversity, localism and competition that ensure consumer choice in the marketplace,\u201d Madigan said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cI urge the FCC to deny the Tribune-Sinclair merger because it will result in the loss of diverse viewpoints on national and local television broadcasts.\u201d The American Civil Liberties Union and the conservative Parents Television Council also objected to the deal in separate filings.<\/p>\n

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Janet Davies and Terri Hemmert<\/p><\/div>\n

Coverage of Chicago\u2019s 49th annual Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade,<\/a> hosted by longtime entertainment reporter Janet Davies<\/strong> and Radio Hall of Famer Terri Hemmert,<\/strong> will air at 11:30 p.m. Sunday on ABC 7. The hourlong taped special also will be available on demand at abc7chicago.com,<\/a> starting Monday. Davies and Hemmert will be backed by morning news anchors Terrell Brown<\/strong> and Tanja Babich.<\/strong> It\u2019s the parade\u2019s 15th year on ABC 7, which boasts that it's the only Chicago TV station to broadcast the event.<\/p>\n

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Mason Schreader and Zach \u201cRemy\u201d Hoesly<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s back to St. Louis for Mason Schreader<\/strong> and Zach \u201cRemy\u201d Hoesly,<\/strong> who came and went as the morning team at iHeartMedia country WEBG 95.5-FM.<\/a> Now they\u2019ll be working for Hubbard Radio as afternoon hosts at WIL in their old market. Before joining Big 95.5 in 2015, they\u2019d been a popular pair at iHeartMedia\u2019s KSD in St. Louis. \u201cWe are both very excited to get back home to our amazing friends and family in St. Louis,\u201d they said in a statement. For now Amber \u201cAlabama\u201d Cole<\/strong> hosts mornings solo at Big 95.5.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Kathy Posner:<\/strong> Not that I want to contradict Mr. Feder who wrote that there was a time when Jerry's leaving would have been front page news in Chicago, but he is wrong. The front page of the Tuesday Sun Times had a picture of Jerry with the vile headline, \"Good Riddance to Jerry Springer's Rubbish.\" The article, written by Richard Roeper, was mean-spirited, and did not reflect Jerry Springer the man. Mr. Dumont commented earlier about Jerry's support of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, that is only one of many organizations that Jerry financially supported. He is a very kind and generous person. A person has the right not to have liked the show, but that does not mean you cannot like the man.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: If Cheryl Scott has ambitions beyond forecasting the weather here, she\u2019s not letting on. Thinking about what\u2019s next keeps the WLS-Channel 7 meteorologist up at night, she said, but she\u2019s committed to the top-rated ABC-owned station \u2014 her TV home since 2014. \u201cI am in such a great place right... 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\/18483"}],"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=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18494,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions\/18494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}