{"id":3626,"date":"2014-06-03T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2014-06-03T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T23:15:09","slug":"siafa-lewis-joins-nbc-5-sports-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/06\/03\/siafa-lewis-joins-nbc-5-sports-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Siafa Lewis joins NBC 5 sports team"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Siafa<\/a>

<\/a> Siafa Lewis and Peggy Kusinski<\/p><\/div>\n

Without fanfare \u2014 or even an official announcement \u2014 WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> has added former New York sports and lifestyle personality Siafa Lewis to its daily sports lineup. He\u2019s been working as a freelance reporter and sports anchor at the NBC-owned station since May 19.<\/p>\n

The closest thing to a formal introduction was this tweet<\/a> May 21 from sports anchor Peggy Kusinski: \"Welcome #NBC5 Chicago's newest sportscaster @SiafaLewisNBC to Chicago!\u201d<\/p>\n

And this tweet<\/a> on May 23 from news anchor Rob Elgas: \u201cA big welcome to the @nbcchicago family for @siafalewisnbc, the best dressed sports guy in Chicago! Sorry @MarkGiangreco7 and @RaferWeigel.\"<\/p>\n

Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, confirmed the new addition on Tuesday, adding that the hiring of Lewis \u201cwill mean less use of some of our other freelancers.\u201d He did not say whose work would be cut back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cover sports in one of the world\u2019s best sports towns!!!\u201d Lewis wrote on his LinkedIn<\/a> profile. \u201cLucky and BLESSED!\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis, 35, was born in West Germany to Liberian parents who were graduate students. They moved to New Jersey when he was 7. Lewis graduated from Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., with a degree in radio, TV and film. After pursuing modeling and acting, he won a contest to report traffic for WCAU-TV, the NBC-owned station in Philadelphia, in 2004.<\/p>\n

He shifted to sports as a reporter and pre-game and post-game host for SportsNet New York <\/a>and later was a host and correspondent for LXTV<\/a> in New York, the lifestyle and entertainment programming production unit created by NBC Universal. He doubled as a sports anchor and reporter for WNBC-TV, the NBC-owned station in New York.<\/p>\n

Lewis most recently worked as an account executive for Isaia men\u2019s fashion and in sales for Boyds, a Philadelphia department store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Without fanfare \u2014 or even an official announcement \u2014 WMAQ-Channel 5 has added former New York sports and lifestyle personality Siafa Lewis to its daily sports lineup. He\u2019s been working as a freelance reporter and sports anchor at the NBC-owned station since May 19. The closest thing to a formal introduction was this tweet May... 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\/3626"}],"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=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}