host the festivities <\/a>this year. (\"We\u2019re thrilled to have a professional of Jerry Springer\u2019s caliber emcee the event,\u201d chapter president Marcus Riley said.)<\/p>\nFirst and foremost a revenue source for the academy (with entry fees ranging from $95 to $210 per submission, and extra trophies going for between $240 and $325), this year's crop includes 155 nominees spread over 66 categories and subcategories.<\/p>\n
Nominees were announced at a party Tuesday emceed by Melissa Forman and Jeanne Sparrow, hosts of WCIU-Channel 26's \"You & Me This Morning,\" at American Junkie. Winners will be announced at the 55th annual Emmy gala Nov. 3 at Alhambra Palace.<\/p>\n
In addition to Chicago, the Midwest region encompasses stations in Peoria-Bloomington and Rockford, Illinois, South Bend-Elkhart, Indiana, and Green Bay-Appleton, Madison, Milwaukee, and Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WLS-Channel 7's coverage of the life, death and legacy of legendary film critic Roger Ebert has been nominated for a Chicago Emmy Award. The ABC-owned station's extensive reporting on the night of Ebert's death April 4 was one of eight finalists in the spot news category announced Tuesday by the Chicago\/Midwest chapter of the National... 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\/508"}],"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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}