{"id":17861,"date":"2018-05-01T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=17861"},"modified":"2018-05-01T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:33:44","slug":"robservations-fox-32s-late-news-roll-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/05\/01\/robservations-fox-32s-late-news-roll-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Robservations: Fox 32\u2019s late news on a roll in the ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Corey McPherrin and Dawn Hasbrouck<\/p><\/div>\n

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

WFLD-Channel 32 <\/a>has begun the May sweep as close as ever to WGN-Channel 9<\/a> in key adult demographics at 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. In April, the Fox-owned station\u2019s late news, anchored by Corey McPherrin<\/strong> and Dawn Hasbrouck,<\/strong> averaged a 1.4 rating among adults between 25 and 54 \u2014 just one-tenth behind the Tribune Broadcasting station, anchored by Micah Matere<\/strong> and newcomer Joe Donlon<\/strong>\u00a0(who started April 23). Ratings analysts attribute Fox 32\u2019s upswing to a surge in its 8-to-9-p.m. lead-in \u2014 up 30 percent in the adult demo from last year. WGN still leads in total viewership with a 3.8 rating (or 125,388 households) to Fox 32\u2019s 2.5 rating (or 82,492 households). The current ratings period runs through May 23.<\/p>\n

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One Illinois<\/p><\/div>\n

Monday marked the launch of One Illinois,<\/a> a nonprofit statewide progressive news outlet founded<\/a> by Ameya Pawar,<\/strong> Chicago alderman and former Democratic candidate for governor. \u201cOne of the basic responsibilities of journalism is to confront social problems and promote needed change. We intend to tell stories about people and their communities that inspire that change,\u201d wrote editor Ted Cox,<\/strong> a veteran of the Daily Herald, DNAinfo Chicago and the Chicago Reader. \u201cOur goal is to build a broad-based audience across party lines, across race and class, and across the state to help shape a more positive and unified narrative about where Illinois is and where it\u2019s going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Darlene Hill<\/p><\/div>\n

Longtime Chicago news anchor Darlene Hill<\/strong> makes her first TV appearance today since she left <\/a>Fox 32 in September. She\u2019ll be a guest on \u201cWindy City Live\u201d<\/a> at 1 p.m. on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Although she\u2019s not expected to announce any career plans, Hill will turn up during the host chat segment with Ed Lover,<\/strong> new morning personality on WBMX 104.3-FM, the Entercom classic hip-hop station. \u201cIt's been a long time since I've been on TV,\u201d she tweeted.<\/a> Hill\u2019s 23 years at Fox 32 included a lengthy run as host of \u201cGood Day Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Peter Bowen<\/p><\/div>\n

Peter Bowen,<\/strong> former vice president and market manager of Cumulus Media Chicago, has been named director of sports sales for Entercom sports\/talk WSCR 670-AM<\/a> and for Bears, Bulls and Cubs play-by-play broadcasts. At Cumulus he was responsible for bringing the Bulls and White Sox to news\/talk WLS 890-AM. The latest move, effective May 14, reunites Bowen with colleagues at the former CBS Radio, where he was director of sales in Chicago and Los Angeles before he joined Cumulus in 2015.<\/p>\n

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CAN TV<\/p><\/div>\n

CAN TV,<\/a> Chicago\u2019s non-profit community access cable television network, this week celebrates its 35th anniversary. \u201cThanks again to each and every one of you for 35 years of loyal and unwavering support,\u201d executive director Jim McVane<\/strong> wrote in an open letter. \u201cThe past may be prologue, but the best is yet to come!\u201d CAN TV marked the milestone with the premiere Monday of \u201cGuess Me If You CAN,\u201d a live call-in trivia game show.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Mark Quinn:<\/strong> I certainly agree that the Sun-Times has become an organ of the left. But so what? That's the Sun-Times' choice and the powers-that-be at the paper will have to live with the consequences, including people, like yourself and others of a conservative persuasion, no longer buying the paper. If S-T management wishes to kill the paper in some sort of crusade to advance their view of the world, that is their prerogative; after all, they own the paper. In today's disparate media world, people have a lot of choices regarding whence they will get their news. WIND and WLS are far from the only choices for those of a conservative persuasion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robservations on the media beat: WFLD-Channel 32 has begun the May sweep as close as ever to WGN-Channel 9 in key adult demographics at 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. In April, the Fox-owned station\u2019s late news, anchored by Corey McPherrin and Dawn Hasbrouck, averaged a 1.4 rating among adults between 25 and 54 \u2014 just... 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\/17861"}],"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=17861"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17882,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions\/17882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}