{"id":5913,"date":"2014-12-10T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2014-12-10T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:00:46","slug":"weigel-broadcastings-green-screen-adventures-fades-to-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/10\/weigel-broadcastings-green-screen-adventures-fades-to-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Weigel Broadcasting\u2019s \u2018Green Screen Adventures\u2019 fades to black"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Green<\/a>

<\/a> \"Green Screen Adventures\"<\/p><\/div>\n

A Chicago-based children\u2019s show that promoted literacy by bringing the ideas of young authors to life has run its course after eight years.<\/p>\n

Weigel Broadcasting has ceased production of \u201cGreen Screen Adventures,\u201d <\/a>the nationally acclaimed educational series that aired weekend mornings on the MeTV Network.<\/a><\/p>\n

Stories submitted by students were adapted and performed each week by a cast of local actors using green-screen technology. Since the show debuted in 2007, more than 400 half-hour episodes featuring the writings and illustrations of more than 2,000 students were produced in the form of sketch comedy, original songs, puppetry and story theater.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy basing the stories on the writing of elementary school students, children get the message that their words have power and that their voices are being heard,\u201d the show\u2019s mission statement<\/a> read.<\/p>\n

Calling it \u201ca great run for a children\u2019s program,\u201d Bob Ramsey, executive vice president of local media for Weigel Broadcasting, said reruns of \u201cGreen Screen Adventures\u201d will continue to air for the foreseeable future on The U (WCIU-Channel 26<\/a>) and Me-Too (WMEU-Channel 26.4) as well as stations in Milwaukee and South Bend. The company will maintain the show\u2019s website at greenscreenadventures.tv.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gail<\/a>

Gail Sikevitz<\/p><\/div>\n

The show was the brainchild of producer Gail Sikevitz, who joined Weigel Broadcasting as director of educational programming in 2006. She previously was executive producer of programming at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> and executive director of the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we bring children\u2019s stories to life, we inspire young viewers to express themselves through language,\u201d Sikevitz said after \u201cGreen Screen Adventures\u201d won its third Daytime Emmy Award last June. \u201cIt is a tremendous honor to be recognized by the academy for our efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among other citations, it twice was honored with Gabriel Awards for excellence in programming by the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts, and it received a Service to America Award for Children from the National Association of Broadcasters.<\/p>\n

Since the show's final taping in September, four of the seven staff members accepted other positions at Weigel Broadcasting and three left the company, according to Ramsey.<\/p>\n

Word of the shutdown comes just weeks after Weigel Broadcasting confirmed the cancellation<\/a> of \u201cFirst Business News,\u201d the long-running weekday morning syndicated financial news show. Its final broadcast will be produced December 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Chicago-based children\u2019s show that promoted literacy by bringing the ideas of young authors to life has run its course after eight years. Weigel Broadcasting has ceased production of \u201cGreen Screen Adventures,\u201d the nationally acclaimed educational series that aired weekend mornings on the MeTV Network.<\/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\/5913"}],"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=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5921,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/5921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}