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>\nA 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}]}}