{"id":8415,"date":"2015-08-04T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2015-08-05T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:04:16","slug":"windy-city-live-producer-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/08\/04\/windy-city-live-producer-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Windy City Live\u2019 producer bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Cindy Patrasso<\/p><\/div>\n

Cindy Patrasso, the longtime Chicago television executive who co-created \u201cWindy City Live,\u201d<\/a> has resigned after almost five years as supervising producer of the talk-and-entertainment show on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cindy Patrasso contributed greatly to the success of \u2018Windy City Live,\u2019\u201d an ABC 7 spokeswoman said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cWe thank her for her efforts and wish her nothing but the best.\u201d Patrasso declined to comment on her departure.<\/p>\n

Together with founding executive producer Marlaine Selip, Patrasso devised the format and launched \u201cWindy City Live\u201d in 2011 as the local replacement for \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show\u201d at 9 a.m. weekdays. Hosted by Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini before a studio audience, the hourlong program now airs at 11 a.m. weekdays (with a rebroadcast at midnight).<\/p>\n

When Selip stepped down<\/a> from the show in April, Patrasso took over as interim executive producer. ABC 7 bosses identified Patrasso as a strong candidate for the job permanently, but subsequently passed her over <\/a>in favor of line producer Matt Knutson. \u201cShe felt it was just time to move on to her next chapter,\u201d a colleague said.<\/p>\n

A 40-year industry veteran, Patrasso was president of Orbis Broadcast Group, and vice president and executive producer of Intersport Television and Dillon Smith Communications. She also was a supervising producer of NBC\/Universal's \u201cIn the Loop with iVillage\u201d and creative marketing director of \u201cDonahue,\u201d the syndicated talk show hosted by Phil Donahue.<\/p>\n

Earlier in her career, she was promotion manager at Tribune Media WGN-Channel 9 and promotion coordinator at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cindy Patrasso, the longtime Chicago television executive who co-created \u201cWindy City Live,\u201d has resigned after almost five years as supervising producer of the talk-and-entertainment show on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. \"Cindy Patrasso contributed greatly to the success of \u2018Windy City Live,\u2019\u201d an ABC 7 spokeswoman said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cWe thank her for her efforts... 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\/8415"}],"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=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8433,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}