{"id":10229,"date":"2016-01-27T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2016-01-27T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:00:02","slug":"half-assed-as-usual-fox-32-hoists-good-day-to-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/01\/27\/half-assed-as-usual-fox-32-hoists-good-day-to-weekends\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-assed as usual, Fox 32 hoists \u2018Good Day Chicago\u2019 on weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Melody<\/a>

<\/a> Melody Mendez and Mark Strehl<\/p><\/div>\n

With four days to go before the launch of WFLD-Channel 32\u2019s <\/a>Saturday and Sunday morning newscast, the Fox-owned station still has no idea what it\u2019s doing. Which is typical.<\/p>\n

No permanent anchors or reporters have been assigned to the new edition of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d which will air from 7 to 9 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, starting this weekend.<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s known at this point, sources said, is that Melody Mendez will anchor the show for the next two weeks. After that, she\u2019ll be gone. Mendez is leaving to join New England Cable News,<\/a> the NBC-owned regional news network in Boston, as a weekday morning anchor.<\/p>\n

Weather, at least at the outset, is expected to be handled by meteorologist Mark Strehl, who recently got pushed off<\/a>\u00a0Monday-through-Friday's \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d by Mike Caplan.<\/p>\n

How secure is Strehl? That\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess since the station posted a job opening <\/a>this week for a meteorologist who can double as a \u201cnews co-anchor and morning news show host when assigned.\u201d (Among the qualifications: \"Must be a great communicator and have ideas on how to make weather current, relevant and interesting to viewers even on days when the weather is quiet.\")<\/p>\n

Most Fox 32 staffers knew nothing about plans for the weekend show before general manager Dennis Welsh spilled the beans last month to Crain\u2019s Chicago Business.<\/a><\/p>\n

As of this week, they still don't know much more.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t help that the executive producer of \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d was publicly undermined on the eve of the expansion. After Dan Salamone ordered the show\u2019s female reporters not to wear hats<\/a> for outdoor live shots in winter, Welsh declared: \"That is 5,000 percent<\/a> not a station policy,\u201d and said Salamone would receive \u201cappropriate disciplinary action<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With four days to go before the launch of WFLD-Channel 32\u2019s Saturday and Sunday morning newscast, the Fox-owned station still has no idea what it\u2019s doing. Which is typical. No permanent anchors or reporters have been assigned to the new edition of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d which will air from 7 to 9 a.m. Saturdays and... 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\/10229"}],"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=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10242,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}