WTTW-Channel 11\u2032s<\/a> \u201cChicago Tonight.\u201d The Chicago native and University of Illinois graduate joined the public television station part-time in 2010 and doubled as a staff reporter for the short-lived Chicago News Cooperative. He moved up to full-time status with \u201cChicago Tonight\u201d the following year and also contributed to the \u201cPBS NewsHour.\u201d He previously served as chief investigative reporter for KCTV, the CBS affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri, and as Islamabad bureau chief and correspondent for CNN.<\/p>\n\u201cAsh-har\u2019s diverse reporting experience coupled with Mike\u2019s inherent passion for Chicago sports, just made our already strong news team even stronger,\u201d Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, said in a statement. \u201cWe welcome Ash-har and Mike to NBC 5 and congratulate Mike on his homecoming to our great city. We are very excited for our viewers to receive their local news reports and coverage of our world-class local sports teams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No one at WMAQ-Channel 5 is saying when \u2014 if ever \u2014 we\u2019ll see the return of veteran sports anchor Mike Adamle, who\u2019s been on personal leave since mid-March. But on Monday, the NBC-owned station announced the hiring of a new sports reporter and fill-in anchor.<\/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\/12015"}],"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=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12019,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}