{"id":10881,"date":"2016-03-23T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10881"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:40:33","slug":"its-official-larry-mowry-joins-abc-7-weather-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/03\/23\/its-official-larry-mowry-joins-abc-7-weather-team\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: Larry Mowry joins ABC 7 weather team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Larry Mowry<\/p><\/div>\n

ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>announced the addition of meteorologist Larry Mowry to its weather team Wednesday, confirming what readers of this blog<\/a> knew two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Mowry, who has been chief meteorologist at CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas since 2008, officially starts here April 11. He will appear on ABC 7\u2019s Saturday and Sunday morning newscasts, anchored by Stacey Baca and Ben Bradley, and fill in on other \u201cEyewitness News\u201d broadcasts.<\/p>\n

The deal negotiated by Mowry\u2019s agent, attorney Joel Weisman, marks a homecoming for the former Chicagoan, who worked weekends at ABC 7 in 2004 and freelanced at Tribune Media\u00a0CLTV<\/a> in 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are absolutely thrilled Larry is returning to ABC 7 and rejoining our team,\u201d Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director at ABC 7, said in a statement. \u201cNot only is he an experienced meteorologist, but he connects to Chicago viewers and is a commanding and reliable presence when severe weather breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

A native of Loudonville, Ohio, and graduate of Valparaiso University in northwest Indiana, Mowry also worked at WKMG, the CBS affiliate in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n

Mowry joins the mix of meteorologists at ABC 7, including Jerry Taft, Cheryl Scott, Tracy Butler and Phil Schwartz, who just welcomed another new addition \u2014 Live Doppler 7 Max, <\/a>a radar system previously available only to the National Weather Service and the U.S. military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 announced the addition of meteorologist Larry Mowry to its weather team Wednesday, confirming what readers of this blog knew two weeks ago. Mowry, who has been chief meteorologist at CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas since 2008, officially starts here April 11. He will appear on ABC 7\u2019s Saturday and Sunday morning newscasts, anchored... 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\/10881"}],"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=10881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}