Chicago Anchor Set to Appear at PACK EXPO Lecture Series
RESTON, VA—September 28, 2012—PMMI, the owner and producer of PACK EXPO International 2012 (McCormick Place, Chicago; Oct. 28–31), is pleased to announce that highly acclaimed journalist Bob Sirott will moderate the PACK EXPO Lecture Series featuring Dennis Miller and James Carville on Oct. 28. Sirott co-anchors FOX Chicago News at 9.
“Dennis Miller and James Carville will be speaking about the upcoming election, and Bob Sirott is a highly respected Chicago news anchor. We’re very pleased he’ll be there to lend additional perspective to this very timely presentation,” says Charles D. Yuska, president & CEO, PMMI.
While he’s been in this particular anchor seat for just over two years, Sirott has been part of the Chicago broadcasting landscape since his time as an NBC Chicago Page in 1966. (By age 19, Sirott was the production and public affairs director at NBC radio station WMAQ.)
Through the 1970s, Sirott, worked his way up in radio. He hosted the morning show at WBBM-FM, and went over to legendary rock powerhouse WLS, where he became the top afternoon radio personality in town, from 1973–1980.
In 1980, Sirott made the jump to television. He became WBBM-TV’s (CBS) first lifestyle and entertainment editor, and received the Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Award for his reporting on the death of John Lennon. He was an anchor and correspondent for West 57th, a news magazine program from CBS Network New and won an Emmy award for feature reporting.
In 1990, he went to NBC5, anchoring and shaping news programs; he launched a 6:00–7:00 am news program, “First Thing in the Morning,” and the Emmy award winning commentary series “One More Thing.” He took the “First Thing in the Morning” program format with him to FOX Chicago, for a seven-year stint co-anchoring “FOX Thing in the Morning” with Marianne Murciano, whom he married in 1999.
In 2002, Sirott was the anchor and managing editor of “Chicago Tonight,” a nightly live newsmagazine on Chicago’s PBS affiliate (WTTW/11), expanding the program to an hour, and generating even more critical acclaim. From 2005–2009, Sirott anchored NBC5 late afternoon and evening newscasts as well as the 10:00 pm news.
“If you want to know what’s going on in current events in Chicago, find out what Bob Sirott is talking about. He’s at the top of his field, and the best moderator we could want,” Yuska says.
Registered attendees and exhibitors at PACK EXPO can purchase tickets for the PACK EXPO Leadership Lecture, featuring Dennis Miller and James Carville, online at Packexpo.com for $125 per ticket or $1,000 for 10 tickets ($250 savings). The Lecture takes place Sunday, Oct. 28, at 5:15.
About PMMI
PMMI is a trade association of more than 600 member companies that manufacture packaging, processing and related converting machinery in the United States, Canada or Mexico; machinery components and packaging containers and materials. PMMI’s vision is to be the leading global resource for the packaging and processing supply chain, and its mission is to improve and promote members' abilities to meet the needs of their customers.
PMMI organizes the PACK EXPO trade shows: PACK EXPO International, PACK EXPO Las Vegas, EXPO PACK México, and EXPO PACK Guadalajara ,connecting participants in the packaging and processing supply chain with their customers around the world. Coming Up: PACK EXPO International at McCormick Place in Chicago, Oct. 28–31, 2012; EXPO PACK Guadalajara at Expo Guadalajara, February 27-March 1; EXPO PACK México 2013 at Centro Banamex, Mexico City, June 18-21.
Source: PMMI.
