{"id":16900,"date":"2018-02-13T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2018-02-13T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:15:14","slug":"official-wgn-hires-news-anchor-joe-donlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/02\/13\/official-wgn-hires-news-anchor-joe-donlon\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: WGN hires news anchor Joe Donlon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Joe Donlon<\/p><\/div>\n

Joe Donlon, a leading news anchor in Portland, Oregon, for 21 years, has been hired for the top anchor job at \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d WGN-Channel 9.<\/a><\/p>\n

Confirming a report here <\/a>Monday, the Tribune Broadcasting station announced today that Donlon would start in mid-April, succeeding Mark Suppelsa, who retired in December. He\u2019ll join evening and late-news anchors Micah Materre, Ben Bradley and Lourdes Duarte.<\/p>\n

Terms of Donlon\u2019s deal, negotiated by attorney Todd Musburger, were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

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WGN<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cJoe is the perfect person for the position,\u201d WGN news director Jennifer Lyons said in a statement. \u201cHe is a heavy hitter when it comes to news. He is an incredible writer and I look forward to his stories as a working journalist in our news room. His knowledge, personality and quick wit will be an asset to WGN\u2019s unique vision for storytelling in the Chicago news market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 1997 Donlon has been anchor at KGW, the NBC affiliate in Portland. Before that the St. Louis native worked at KVOA, the NBC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona, and KZTV, the CBS affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe broadcast history in Chicago is unparalleled,\u201d Donlon said in a statement. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you what it means to get this call from an iconic station I grew up watching, in one of the greatest cities in the world. I feel like I\u2019ve been traded to the Bulls in the 1990s. It is literally a dream job for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Suppelsa, Donlon is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Donlon, a leading news anchor in Portland, Oregon, for 21 years, has been hired for the top anchor job at \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d WGN-Channel 9. Confirming a report here Monday, the Tribune Broadcasting station announced today that Donlon would start in mid-April, succeeding Mark Suppelsa, who retired in December. He\u2019ll join evening and 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\/16900"}],"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=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16906,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions\/16906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}