{"id":17232,"date":"2018-03-13T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=17232"},"modified":"2018-03-13T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:00:31","slug":"robservations-anthony-ponce-parks-fox-32-morning-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/03\/13\/robservations-anthony-ponce-parks-fox-32-morning-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Anthony Ponce parks at Fox 32 morning show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Anthony Ponce (Photo: \"Backseat Rider\")<\/p><\/div>\n

Robservations on the media beat:<\/p>\n

Anthony Ponce,<\/strong> who quit his job as reporter and weekend morning anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 to become a Lyft driver, is returning to TV news. He\u2019s joining Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32, <\/a>where he\u2019ll anchor \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d from 4 to 6 a.m. weekdays with Natalie Bomke.<\/strong> Ponce left NBC 5 in 2016 to launch \u201cBackseat Rider,\u201d<\/a> a podcast in which he interviews his Lyft passengers. He\u2019ll continue to host the podcast and use segments from it on \u201cGood Day Chicago.\u201d A graduate of Indiana University and Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism, Ponce will be competing against his brother, Dan Ponce,<\/strong>\u00a0who's morning news anchor at Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9. Their father, Phil Ponce,<\/strong> hosts \u201cChicago Tonight\u201d on public television WTTW-Channel 11.<\/p>\n

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Dan McNeil<\/p><\/div>\n

Look for Dan McNeil<\/strong> to return to weekday afternoons on WSCR AM 670<\/a> as part of a major program realignment to be announced this week at the Entercom sports\/talk station. Since January, the Chicago sports radio veteran has been back at The Score hosting a Sunday morning show. He last worked there full-time in 2014 when he chose not to renew his contract. Jason Goff,<\/strong> who has been co-hosting afternoons on The Score with Dan Bernstein,<\/strong> has been sidelined for now. In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, The Score tied for 19th in afternoons with a 2.4 percent audience share.<\/p>\n

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Marty Wilke<\/p><\/div>\n

Insiders at WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> say they were stunned by the announcement<\/a> Monday that Marty Wilke<\/strong> was retiring<\/a>\u00a0from the top job at the CBS-owned station. Now they\u2019re wondering who will succeed the station's first female president and general manager, and how much authority the new boss will have to shake things up. Although CBS 2 expanded news by six hours a week under Wilke, it never came close to being competitive in the ratings. Jeff Kiernan<\/strong> continues as vice president and news director \u2014 a post he\u2019s held for more than nine years.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Herrmann<\/p><\/div>\n

Longtime Chicago journalist Andrew Herrmann<\/strong> has been hired as communications director for Friends of the Chicago River,<\/a> a nonprofit group dedicated to improving and protecting the river system for people, plants and animals. Herrmann, who most recently was a senior editor for DNAinfo.com Chicago, spent 28 years at the Sun-Times, including three years as managing editor. \u201cThrilled to be joining a great group with such an important ecological mission, particularly at this critical time for the environment,\u201d Herrmann said of his new role.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s best comment:<\/a> Mick Kahler:<\/strong> Garry Meier is a man without a radio station, without an audience and without a clue. For years now he's painted himself into a very unlikeable corner. I don't know how one returns to anyone's good graces after acting like a petulant child for so many years. On a side note, does he still have a podcast? If so, is anyone tuned into it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: Anthony Ponce, who quit his job as reporter and weekend morning anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 to become a Lyft driver, is returning to TV news. He\u2019s joining Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32, where he\u2019ll anchor \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d from 4 to 6 a.m. weekdays with Natalie Bomke. Ponce left NBC 5... 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\/17232"}],"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=17232"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17249,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions\/17249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}