{"id":3789,"date":"2014-06-17T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2014-06-17T14:55:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:55:56","slug":"emily-barr-named-broadcaster-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/06\/17\/emily-barr-named-broadcaster-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Barr named Broadcaster of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Emily Barr<\/p><\/div>\n

Emily Barr, former president and general manager of ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, will be honored as Broadcaster of the Year Wednesday by the Illinois Broadcasters Association.<\/a><\/p>\n

Barr, who stepped down<\/a> after 15 years at ABC 7 in 2012 to become president and CEO of Post-Newsweek Stations, twice served as board chairman of the state broadcast trade association. She later was elected to the lifetime board position of director emeritus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no broadcaster more deserving of this award than Emily,\u201d Dennis Lyle, president and CEO of the IBA, said in a statement. \u201cShe clearly defines what local broadcasting means to the community it serves, and does so with unmatched enthusiasm and dedication for an industry she so loves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout Barr\u2019s tenure at ABC 7, it was the most successful television station in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The award, named for the late Vincent T. Wasilewski, an Illinois attorney who served as president of the National Association of Broadcasters, will be presented at a luncheon Wednesday during the IBA\u2019s summer conference in Champaign\/Urbana.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am truly touched and honored to have been singled out for this award,\u201d Barr said in a statement. \u201cThere are so many talented and committed broadcasters in Illinois, and I am grateful to each of them for what they continue to teach me about the importance of community involvement and their commitment to localism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barr heads Post\u2013Newsweek Stations, the television broadcasting division of Graham Holdings Company, from offices in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Barr, former president and general manager of ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, will be honored as Broadcaster of the Year Wednesday by the Illinois Broadcasters Association. Barr, who stepped down after 15 years at ABC 7 in 2012 to become president and CEO of Post-Newsweek Stations, twice served as board chairman of the state broadcast trade... 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\/3789"}],"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=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}