{"id":7756,"date":"2015-05-26T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2015-05-26T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:06:19","slug":"tribune-wont-fill-steve-farbers-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/05\/26\/tribune-wont-fill-steve-farbers-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribune won\u2019t fill Steve Farber\u2019s shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7366\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/05\/26\/tribune-wont-fill-steve-farbers-shoes\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7366\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7366\" alt=\"Steve Farber\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Steve-Farber-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Steve-Farber-150x150.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Steve-Farber-57x57.png 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Steve-Farber-72x72.png 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Steve-Farber-114x114.png 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Steve-Farber-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Steve Farber<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tribune Broadcasting won\u2019t be hiring a replacement for its senior vice president of operations after all, sources said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the Tribune Media broadcasting unit are expected to divide the duties of Steve Farber, who<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2015\/04\/07\/weigel-broadcasting-hires-tribunes-steve-farber\/\" target=\"_blank\"> resigned<\/a> in April to become senior vice president of operations at Weigel Broadcasting, overseeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wciu.com\" target=\"_blank\">WCIU-Channel 26 <\/a>and the Chicago-based company\u2019s digital network operations.<\/p>\n<p>Tribune Media spokesman Gary Weitman declined to comment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Farber, a 20-year veteran of Tribune Media and former acting general manager of <a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com \" target=\"_blank\">WGN-Channel 9, <\/a>succeeded Bob Ramsey, who stepped down as executive vice president of local media at Weigel Broadcasting. Farber had been overseeing Tribune Broadcasting\u2019s digital networks as senior vice president of operations since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the appointment, Norman Shapiro, chairman of Weigel Broadcasting, cited Farber\u2019s \u201crich background in broadcast and digital operations, which fit perfectly within our current and future business plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farber confirmed that he\u2019s been on the job since April 20. \u201cGreat group here,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribune Broadcasting won\u2019t be hiring a replacement for its senior vice president of operations after all, sources said Tuesday. Others in the Tribune Media broadcasting unit are expected to divide the duties of Steve Farber, who resigned in April to become senior vice president of operations at Weigel Broadcasting, overseeing WCIU-Channel 26 and the Chicago-based... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/05\/26\/tribune-wont-fill-steve-farbers-shoes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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\/7756"}],"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=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}