{"id":7323,"date":"2015-04-02T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7323"},"modified":"2015-04-02T06:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:13:19","slug":"showtimes-over-for-windy-city-live-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/04\/02\/showtimes-over-for-windy-city-live-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime\u2019s over for \u2018Windy City Live\u2019 boss"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Marlaine<\/a>

<\/a> Marlaine Selip<\/p><\/div>\n

The woman who brought \u201cWindy City Live\u201d <\/a>to life is calling it quits.<\/p>\n

Marlaine Selip is stepping down after four years as executive producer of the weekday morning talk show on WLS-Channel 7.<\/a> Her last day at the ABC-owned station will be Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time for me,\u201d Selip, 67, said Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019m past retirement age and I\u2019m ready to take a break. . . . It\u2019s a hard job especially at this age, and I think it\u2019s time for somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

No replacement has been named, but sources said supervising producer Cindy Patrasso is a strong candidate to succeed Selip. ABC 7 bosses are still at least two weeks away from making a decision, according to insiders.<\/p>\n

Selip, a veteran of television talk formats since she produced Phil Donahue\u2019s syndicated talk show in Chicago more than 30 years ago, launched \u201cWindy City Live\u201d in 2011 as a local replacement for \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show\u201d at 9 a.m. weekdays on ABC 7. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of the team, and I\u2019m very proud of what we were able to do,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is such a great town. I\u2019m glad we were able to showcase it in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hosted by Valerie Warner and Ryan Chiaverini, the one-hour show moved to 11 a.m. weekdays in 2013, replacing a top-rated local newscast that had aired for decades. In an effort to retain viewers, \u201cWindy City Live\u201d added news to its entertainment mission. \u201cI think that\u2019s altered it a bit,\u201d Selip said of her original vision for the show. \u201cBut that\u2019s kind of what\u2019s necessary at that hour for a station that\u2019s so strong in the news field. I\u2019ve been delighted to see how everybody\u2019s grown and gotten so comfortable in their roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Selip said her immediate plans are to travel to London and Paris for vacation, and then move back to New York, where most of her family lives. While she may take on a freelance assignment from time to time, there\u2019s nothing else on her agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to walk away because this has been so much fun,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery day you meet interesting people, every day you get to know what\u2019s going on in the world, every day you\u2019re interacting with creative people. It\u2019s been a really nice job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The woman who brought \u201cWindy City Live\u201d to life is calling it quits. Marlaine Selip is stepping down after four years as executive producer of the weekday morning talk show on WLS-Channel 7. Her last day at the ABC-owned station will be Friday.<\/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\/7323"}],"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=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}