{"id":1549,"date":"2013-12-06T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2013-12-06T07:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:02:17","slug":"eyewitness-news-better-late-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/06\/eyewitness-news-better-late-as-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eyewitness News\u2019 better late, as ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"ABC$ <\/a><\/a>Maybe it was the return of its branding as \u201cEyewitness News\u201d <\/a>after a 17-year lapse. Maybe it was the spiffy new opening and graphics package. Or maybe it simply was the 15 percent boost in its lead-in ratings at 9:45 p.m. (Yeah, that\u2019s probably it.)<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 showed the biggest late-news growth in November, widening its lead in total viewership at 10 p.m. over NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 and CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2.<\/p>\n

Though it\u2019s still a much tighter race between ABC 7 and NBC 5 for viewers in the 25-to-54 demo coveted by advertisers, the rechristened \u201cEyewitness News\u201d team continues to dominate the market as it has for more than a generation.<\/p>\n

Ongoing upheaval at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 coincided with a 36 percent decline for the station\u2019s 9 p.m. newscast, now fronted by two new anchors. Ratings for Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9\u2019s news at 9 p.m. were unchanged from last year.<\/p>\n

Here is a gallery of Chicago\u2019s late-news anchor teams, followed by their Nielsen ratings and shares for November 2013:<\/p>\n\n\t

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1. ABC 7 Ron Magers and Kathy Brock<\/b> 8.9\/17<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t

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2. NBC 5 Rob Stafford and Allison Rosati<\/b> 5.9\/11<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t

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3. CBS 2 Rob Johnson and Kate Sullivan<\/b> 4.6\/9<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t

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4. WGN 9 Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre<\/b> 4.2\/7<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t
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5. Fox 32 Jeff Herndon and Dawn Hasbrouck<\/b> 1.7\/3<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div><\/div>\n\t ‹<\/a>\n\t ›<\/a><\/div>\n
(One ratings point represents 34,848 households and share is the percent of sets in use.)<\/em><\/p>\n
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Maybe it was the return of its branding as \u201cEyewitness News\u201d after a 17-year lapse. Maybe it was the spiffy new opening and graphics package. Or maybe it simply was the 15 percent boost in its lead-in ratings at 9:45 p.m. (Yeah, that\u2019s probably it.) For whatever reason, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 showed the biggest late-news... 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\/1549"}],"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=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}