CLTV, <\/a>the Tribune Broadcasting cable news channel, before joining ABC 7 in 2002. A Chicago native and graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School and the University of Missouri-Columbia, he previously worked for stations in Charleston, South Carolina, and Columbia, Missouri.<\/p>\nNo replacement has been named for Bradley at ABC 7 as Saturday and Sunday morning news anchor alongside Stacey Baca, a post he held since 2010. ABC 7 officials declined to comment on Bradley's move Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Here is the text of the memo from Lyons to staff:<\/strong><\/p>\nAll -<\/em><\/p>\nI am pleased to let you know that Ben Bradley is joining WGN-TV as an Investigative Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\nWe are thrilled to bring him on-board to grow our very successful WGN Investigates Franchise.<\/em><\/p>\nBen will join Mark Suppelsa, Lourdes Duarte and Marsha Bartel in turning impactful stories that make us stand-out as Chicago\u2019s Very Own.<\/em><\/p>\nSome of you worked with Ben during his time at CLTV and then brief per diem reporting time at WGN before he joined that other station in town.<\/em><\/p>\nPlease join me in welcoming him home.<\/em><\/p>\nJennifer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago news veteran Ben Bradley, who chose not to renew his contract last October after 14 years at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, has joined Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 as an investigative reporter. Bradley, 41, signed a multiyear contract Wednesday to join the \u201cWGN Investigates\u201d team, working alongside news anchors Mark Suppelsa and Lourdes Duarte and producer... 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\/13121"}],"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=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13129,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}