flood of complaints<\/a>.\u00a0Fans of the New Jersey native and Brown University graduate were sympathetic that Scott wasn\u2019t being promoted quickly enough since joining NBC 5 in September 2011 from WBIR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Knoxville, Tennessee. Scott\u2019s reference to \u201cdouble-shift weekends\u201d suggested that her schedule of early-morning to late-night newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays was taking a toll.<\/p>\nNow that Scott is contractually free to explore other opportunities, her agent, Chicago-based attorney Andrew Stroth, predicted plenty of offers will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe interest in Cheryl on both a network and local level is very high,\u201d said Stroth, who has represented media and sports talent for 20 years. \u201cShe\u2019s a special talent with a bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If it was hard for Cheryl Scott\u2019s legion of fans to see her bid farewell from WMAQ-Channel 5 Sunday night, it wasn\u2019t any easier for Scott. \u201cSigning off this weekend was difficult for me,\u201d said Scott, who delivered her final forecast as the NBC-owned station\u2019s weekend meteorologist. \u201cIt\u2019s been three great years at NBC, and... 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\/4931"}],"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=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}