<\/a>Fred Weintraub<\/p><\/div>\n
Also inducted will be Fred Weintraub,<\/strong> executive producer of sports at Weigel Broadcasting, former station manager of Weigel's WCIU and former general manager of Silver King Communications WEHS; Deloris MeBain,<\/strong> director of station relations at NBC 5 from 1970 to 2000 and owner of MeBain Media Group; and two longtime stagehands at NBC 5 \u2014 Ed Collins<\/strong> and Jim Kehoe<\/strong> (posthumously).<\/p>\nThe Silver Circle Award, established in 1992, recognizes individuals who have devoted 25 years or more to the television industry and have made significant contributions to Chicago broadcasting. They are selected annually by a committee of academy board members.<\/p>\n
The May 3 induction ceremony will be at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A husband-and-wife team who pioneered television news commentary and global-affairs reporting in the 1950s are among the broadcasting legends named recipients of Silver Circle Awards, the Chicago TV industry\u2019s highest honor. Clifton and Frayn Utley were announced Saturday along with nine other 2019 Silver Circle honorees at the 60th annual regional Emmy Awards, sponsored by... 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\/19846"}],"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=19846"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19866,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846\/revisions\/19866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}