{"id":19812,"date":"2018-11-07T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2018-11-07T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T22:04:50","slug":"official-abc-7-wins-election-night-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/11\/07\/official-abc-7-wins-election-night-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"It's official: ABC 7 wins election night ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Alan Krashesky and Cheryl Burton<\/p><\/div>\n

With Cheryl Burton anchoring election night coverage alongside Alan Krashesky for the first time on WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> the ABC-owned station again proved a decisive winner in the ratings Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Straight up at 10 p.m., when all five general market stations were competing head to head, ABC 7 led the Nielsen ratings in overall households and among viewers between 25 and 54. NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> was No. 2 in overall households, while Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9<\/a> was No. 2 in the 25-54 demographic.<\/p>\n

CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> and Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32<\/a> were distant also-rans.<\/p>\n

Among Spanish-language stations, Univision WGBO-Channel 66 <\/a>drew twice the audience of Telemundo WSNS-Channel 44.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ratings showed combined household viewership for all stations at 10 p.m. was 640,506 \u2014 a relatively small number for an important election, suggesting that many others were getting their news from cable networks, public broadcasting, radio or other media.<\/p>\n

Local viewership levels peaked at 8:45 p.m. when most stations were in network coverage. Among gubernatorial candidates, Republican Bruce Rauner delivered his concession speech at 8 p.m., and Democrat J.B. Pritzker delivered his victory speech at 9:18 p.m.<\/p>\n

Burton, a 26-year veteran of ABC 7, was promoted<\/a> in June to succeed Kathy Brock as the station\u2019s 10 p.m. co-anchor with Krashesky. It also was the first election night at WGN for newcomer Joe Donlon, who replaced <\/a>Mark Suppelsa as 5, 6, 9 and 10 p.m. co-anchor with Micah Materre in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Cheryl Burton anchoring election night coverage alongside Alan Krashesky for the first time on WLS-Channel 7, the ABC-owned station again proved a decisive winner in the ratings Tuesday. Straight up at 10 p.m., when all five general market stations were competing head to head, ABC 7 led the Nielsen ratings in overall households and... 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\/19812"}],"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=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19817,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions\/19817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}