{"id":11650,"date":"2016-06-15T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2016-06-20T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:00:24","slug":"robservations-abc-7s-tyrell-brown-judy-hsu-to-anchor-at-11-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/15\/robservations-abc-7s-tyrell-brown-judy-hsu-to-anchor-at-11-a-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: ABC 7\u2019s Judy Hsu, Terrell Brown to anchor at 11 a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Terrell<\/a>

<\/a> Terrell Brown and Judy Hsu<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Judy Hsu <\/strong>and Terrell Brown,<\/strong> who co-anchor from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, <\/a>have been tapped to anchor ABC 7\u2019s new 11 a.m. weekday newscast,<\/a> starting June 27. They\u2019ll be joined by meteorologist Tracy Butler<\/strong> on the new addition, which bumps \u201cWindy City Live\u201d <\/a>to 1 p.m. \"There's no doubt our 11 a.m. newscast will be in very good hands with Judy, Terrell and Tracy at the helm along with our experienced production team,\u201d Jennifer Graves,<\/strong> vice president and news director of ABC 7, said in a statement Wednesday. It\u2019s a return to the time period for \u201cEyewitness News,\u201d which dropped its 11 a.m. newscast, anchored by Linda Yu<\/strong> and Sylvia Perez,<\/strong> in 2013.<\/p>\n

\"Kieran<\/a>

Kieran Mayo<\/p><\/div>\n

Less than a week after she was praised by Chicago magazine <\/a>for the \u201cbold, confrontational covers and issues\u201d she produced as editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine, <\/a>Kierna Mayo<\/strong> has left to join Interactive One <\/a>as senior vice president of content and brands. Billed as \u201cThe Digital Connection For Black America,\u201d Interactive One is a digital publishing company founded by Cathy Hughes<\/strong> with a portfolio of websites focused on African American and Hispanic audiences. Mayo\u2019s move coincides with sale <\/a>of Ebony and Jet by Chicago-based Johnson Publishing<\/a> to Clear View Group, an investment firm in Austin, Texas. Adding editor duties for Ebony is Kyra Kyles,<\/strong> who has headed digital content for Ebony and Jet since last June.<\/p>\n

\"Dan<\/a>

Dan Sorkin<\/p><\/div>\n

Dan Sorkin,<\/strong> a popular Chicago radio personality and humorist in the 1950s and early \u201960s who was credited with discovering comedian Bob Newhart,<\/strong> died of pancreatic cancer June 6 in California at 89.<\/a> Sorkin hosted overnights and then mornings at the former WCFL, where he helped launch the career of Newhart, then an accountant hoping to break into standup comedy. Sorkin moved to San Francisco in 1964 and spent decades on the air there. He also worked for Synanon Foundation, a controversial drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization. Sorkin, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident, later launched what he described as a \u201cwhimsical global amputee support network\u201d called Stumps \u2019R Us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Judy Hsu and Terrell Brown, who co-anchor from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, have been tapped to anchor ABC 7\u2019s new 11 a.m. weekday newscast, starting June 27. They\u2019ll be joined by meteorologist Tracy Butler on the new addition, which bumps \u201cWindy City Live\u201d... 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\/11650"}],"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=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11681,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions\/11681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}