{"id":2233,"date":"2014-02-03T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2014-02-03T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T23:17:50","slug":"nbc-promotes-chicago-news-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/02\/03\/nbc-promotes-chicago-news-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC promotes Chicago news producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2234\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/02\/03\/nbc-promotes-chicago-news-producer\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2234\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2234\" alt=\"Matt Piacente\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-1024x717.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-1024x717.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-300x210.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-150x105.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-1200x840.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-400x280.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-800x560.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente-200x140.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Matt-Piacente.jpg 1356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Matt Piacente<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Veteran Chicago television news producer Matt Piacente has been named vice president of news at WVIT-TV, the NBC-owned station in Hartford, Conn.<\/p>\n<p>Piacente, who most recently has been manager of news and content development at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> held a variety of roles in his 15 years at the NBC-owned station here, including executive producer of news and special projects. He previously worked as a producer at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 and Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 and CLTV.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His promotion, effective Feb. 10, was announced to staffers at NBC 5 Monday. No word yet on his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt\u2019s robust experience overseeing breaking news, investigative reports, election coverage and severe weather make him a perfect fit to lead the NBC Connecticut news team,\u201d Ric Harris, president and general manager of WVIT, said in a statement announcing Piacente\u2019s appointment. \u201cOur viewers look to us to be Connecticut\u2019s first and best choice for local news across all platforms and we are confident that Matt\u2019s vision and leadership will provide viewers exactly what they are looking for from NBC Connecticut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Chicago native and a graduate of the University of Missouri, Piacente, 43, previously was married to Robin Baumgarten, morning news anchor at WGN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Chicago television news producer Matt Piacente has been named vice president of news at WVIT-TV, the NBC-owned station in Hartford, Conn. Piacente, who most recently has been manager of news and content development at WMAQ-Channel 5, held a variety of roles in his 15 years at the NBC-owned station here, including executive producer of... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/02\/03\/nbc-promotes-chicago-news-producer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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\/2233"}],"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=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}