DNAinfo.com\/Chicago\u00a0<\/a>this week.)<\/p>\nLike Robinson, McPherrin has enjoyed a charmed career in his hometown. On the air here continuously since he replaced the legendary Johnny Morris at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 in 1991, the south suburban Markham native shifted to Fox 32 in 1995. But recasting him as a modern-day Lee Phillip is simply ridiculous \u2014 and doomed to fail.<\/p>\n
No word yet on whether changes are coming to the station's weekend newscasts, anchored by Larry Yellen and Amara Walker. Which means they're probably just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just when you thought they couldn't screw things up any worse at WFLD-Channel 32, they've done it again. After letting Corey McPherrin twist in the wind for more than a week, bosses of the Fox-owned station have decided to redeploy the former sportscaster and current \"Good Day Chicago\" host as solo anchor of the noon... 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\/1071"}],"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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}