{"id":19968,"date":"2018-11-23T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19968"},"modified":"2018-11-23T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:00:39","slug":"abc-7-late-news-takes-biggest-piece-smaller-pie-november-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/11\/23\/abc-7-late-news-takes-biggest-piece-smaller-pie-november-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 late news takes biggest piece of smaller pie in November ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19969\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/11\/23\/abc-7-late-news-takes-biggest-piece-smaller-pie-november-ratings\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19969\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19969\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-1024x605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-1024x605.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-300x177.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-768x454.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-500x295.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-150x89.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-400x236.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-800x473.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7-200x118.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ABC-7.jpg 1107w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> ABC 7 Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While overall viewership of Chicago\u2019s 10 p.m. newscasts continued to decline, ABC-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\">WLS-Channel 7<\/a> emerged the winner of the just-ended November sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary results of the monthlong Nielsen ratings survey showed ABC 7 in first place among total households and among viewers between 25 and 54. Final figures will be released Monday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But ABC 7\u2019s 6.5 rating (211,334 households) was down 6 percent from last year, reflecting the overall decline of 6.8 percent in combined audience for the four 10 p.m. Monday-through-Friday newscasts. In second place was NBC-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\">WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> with a 4.4 rating (143,057 households) \u2014 down 8 percent. In third was CBS-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\">WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> with a 3.0 rating (97,539 households) \u2014 down 16 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The only station to increase year-over-year at 10 p.m. was fourth-place Tribune Broadcasting <a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\">WGN-Channel 9<\/a> with a 2.5 rating (81,282 households) \u2014 up 8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At 9 p.m. weekdays WGN remained the news leader with a 3.6 rating (117,046 households) \u2014 down 2 percent from last year. Fox-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\">WFLD-Channel 32<\/a> had a 2.1 rating (68,277 households) \u2014 up 16 percent.<\/p>\n<p>WGN also led in mornings among total households and among viewers between 25 and 54.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2018\/11\/21\/robservations-cbs-2-shakes-late-news-leadership\/#comments\">Wednesday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> <strong>Ben Venuti:<\/strong> <em>How about a belated turkey to ABC 7 and Cheryl Burton who teased last night during a \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d commercial break about a dangerous food you should avoid. She didn't mention the food . . . had to watch at 10 p.m. How many people consumed romaine lettuce in the interim? ABC is always looking out for the viewer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While overall viewership of Chicago\u2019s 10 p.m. newscasts continued to decline, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 emerged the winner of the just-ended November sweep. Preliminary results of the monthlong Nielsen ratings survey showed ABC 7 in first place among total households and among viewers between 25 and 54. Final figures will be released Monday.<\/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\/19968"}],"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=19968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19973,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19968\/revisions\/19973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}