media rights extension<\/a> with the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks. The Cubs are expected to launch their own channel with Sinclair Broadcast Group when their partnership with NBC Sports Chicago expires in October, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\nCross, who grew up on Chicago's South Side and graduated from Columbia College, began his career at SportsChannel Chicago as a producer in 1993. During the network\u2019s transition to Fox Sports Chicago in 1998, he was promoted to senior producer. He later served as president\/executive producer of Timeline Productions and executive producer of sports for CLTV.<\/p>\n
At Comcast SportsNet Chicago \u2014 forerunner of NBC Sports Chicago \u2014 he rose from assistant news director to senior director of news and original content and later to vice president of content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kevin Cross, a prominent Chicago sports producer and media executive for more than 25 years, has been promoted to senior vice president\/general manager of NBC Sports Chicago, the regional sports network announced Thursday. Cross, who most recently was vice president of content for NBC Sports Chicago, will head day-to-day operations of the network, which includes... 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\/20485"}],"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=20485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20494,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20485\/revisions\/20494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}