{"id":11573,"date":"2016-06-07T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2016-06-07T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:08:59","slug":"abc-7-moving-windy-city-live-to-afternoons-restoring-11-a-m-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/07\/abc-7-moving-windy-city-live-to-afternoons-restoring-11-a-m-newscast\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 moving \u2018Windy City Live\u2019 to afternoons, restoring 11 a.m. newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Ji Suk Yi, Ryan Chiaverini and Val Warner of \u201cWindy City Live\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

WLS-Channel 7<\/a> is moving the weekday morning talk show \u201cWindy City Live\u201d <\/a>to afternoons and bringing back the 11 a.m. newscast it canceled three years ago, according to sources at the ABC-owned station.<\/p>\n

Starting June 27, \u201cWindy City Live\u201d is expected to air at 1 p.m. weekdays, replacing the canceled \u201cFAB Life\u201d on the ABC 7 daytime lineup.<\/p>\n

This will be the third time slot for \u201cWindy City Live\u201d since its debut in 2011. It initially aired at 9 a.m. as the local replacement for \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show,\u201d which dominated the hour for more than a quarter-century in Chicago. In 2013 the show moved to 11 a.m. to make room for the syndicated \u201cLive with Kelly and Michael\u201d at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n

Coinciding with the change in 2013, ABC 7 dropped<\/a> its top-rated 11 a.m. newscast, anchored by Linda Yu and Sylvia Perez, after more than 20 years. The anchor lineup for the new 11 a.m. newscast has not been finalized.<\/p>\n

Insiders said the move to 1 p.m. is seen as a way to increase viewership for \u201cWindy City Live\u201d by airing it at an hour with no locally produced competition. Restoring the 11 a.m. news will \"level the playing field\" with ABC 7\u2019s competitors, according to a source.<\/p>\n

\u201cWindy City Live\u201d led at 11 a.m. in the latest Nielsen sweep with a 2.5 rating (86,880 households) and 9 share. But among viewers between 25 and 54 \u2014 the demo most sought by advertisers \u2014 the show finished fourth, fractionally behind local newscasts on NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> and Tribune Media WGN-Channel 9.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now in its fifth season, \u201cWindy City Live\u201d is hosted by Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini with contributing host Ji Suk Yi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WLS-Channel 7 is moving the weekday morning talk show \u201cWindy City Live\u201d to afternoons and bringing back the 11 a.m. newscast it canceled three years ago, according to sources at the ABC-owned station. Starting June 27, \u201cWindy City Live\u201d is expected to air at 1 p.m. weekdays, replacing the canceled \u201cFAB Life\u201d on the ABC... 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\/11573"}],"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=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11579,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}