{"id":11059,"date":"2016-04-12T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2016-04-12T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:00:01","slug":"nbc-5-to-launch-4-p-m-newscast-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/04\/12\/nbc-5-to-launch-4-p-m-newscast-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC 5 to launch 4 p.m. newscast this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new one-hour newscast at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday will debut in August on WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> the NBC-owned station announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The syndicated entertainment show \u201cExtra,\u201d which has been airing at 4 p.m. weekdays on NBC 5, is expected to move to Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32<\/a> in a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. It's expected to air there at either 6 or 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

With the additional half-hour of news, NBC 5 will be increasing its output to 41 hours of local news each week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to delivering local news, weather and information that is important to our viewers,\u201d David Doebler, president and general manager of NBC 5, said in a statement. \u201cOur new 4 p.m. newscast will expand our local news commitment and offer our viewers even more of what they\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n

No decision has been made on anchors for the new newscast. Marion Brooks currently anchors at 4:30 p.m. with a variety of co-anchors.<\/p>\n

The move will put NBC 5 on equal footing with ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> which long has started its afternoon news block at 4 p.m., and Tribune Media WGN-Channel 9,<\/a> which added <\/a>a 4 p.m. newscast in September 2014.<\/p>\n

Last November FTVLive.com<\/a> was the first to report plans among NBC-owned stations to launch newscasts at 4 p.m. in part to capitalize on additional political advertising revenue during the election year.<\/p>\n

Stefan Holt, former weekday morning news anchor at NBC 5, was hired<\/a> by NBC-owned flagship WNBC in New York to anchor its new 4 p.m. newscast, starting this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new one-hour newscast at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday will debut in August on WMAQ-Channel 5, the NBC-owned station announced Tuesday. The syndicated entertainment show \u201cExtra,\u201d which has been airing at 4 p.m. weekdays on NBC 5, is expected to move to Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 in a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.... 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\/11059"}],"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=11059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11064,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}