{"id":13564,"date":"2017-03-02T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=13564"},"modified":"2017-03-02T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:11:14","slug":"wgn-adds-6-p-m-newscast-teams-bradley-duarte-4-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/03\/02\/wgn-adds-6-p-m-newscast-teams-bradley-duarte-4-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN adds 6 p.m. newscast; teams Bradley & Duarte at 4 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Ben Bradley and Lourdes Duarte<\/p><\/div>\n

WGN-Channel 9<\/a> will move a step closer to around-the-clock news with the launch next month of a one-hour newscast at 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, the Tribune Broadcasting station announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The addition will bring \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d to a record 70\u00bd hours of news each week, plus news produced throughout the day for its CLTV<\/a> cable channel.<\/p>\n

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Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre<\/p><\/div>\n

Starting April 4, Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre will anchor from 5 to 7 p.m., in addition to continuing to anchor from 9 to 10:30 p.m. Replacing them from 4 to 5 p.m. will be the newly paired team of Ben Bradley and Lourdes Duarte.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to offering Chicagoland viewers a fresh new choice for news at 6 p.m. and the only local news in the market at 6:30 p.m.,\u201d Jennifer Lyons, news director of WGN, said in a statement.\u00a0 \u201cThe debut of Ben Bradley and Lourdes Duarte at 4 p.m. will make a great addition to 'Evening News' with their news judgement, knowledge of Chicago and investigative story telling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley joined <\/a>WGN in January after 14 years at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/a> Duarte, who has been at WGN since 2007, most recently has been anchoring from 4 to 6 a.m. with Dan Ponce. She previously anchored at 5 p.m. with Suppelsa.<\/p>\n

Suppelsa, Duarte and Bradley also serve on \u201cWGN Investigates,\u201d the station\u2019s investigative reporting team, with producer Marsha Bartel.<\/p>\n

With Suppelsa and Materre from 5 to 7 p.m. will be chief meteorologist Tom Skilling and sports anchor Dan Roan. With Bradley and Duarte at 4 p.m. will be meteorologist Demetrius Ivory, who\u2019ll continue to appear on \u201cWGN Midday News.\u201d WGN sports host Jarrett Payton will be added to anchor sports at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

No successors have been named for Duarte or Ivory on the early morning news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WGN-Channel 9 will move a step closer to around-the-clock news with the launch next month of a one-hour newscast at 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, the Tribune Broadcasting station announced Thursday. The addition will bring \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d to a record 70\u00bd hours of news each week, plus news produced throughout the day for its... 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\/13564"}],"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=13564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13571,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}