{"id":20557,"date":"2019-01-24T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=20557"},"modified":"2019-01-24T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:08:31","slug":"no-kidding-wgn-renews-pat-tomasulos-man-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/01\/24\/no-kidding-wgn-renews-pat-tomasulos-man-people\/","title":{"rendered":"No kidding: WGN renews Pat Tomasulo\u2019s \u2018Man of the People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Pat Tomasulo<\/p><\/div>\n

And they said it wouldn\u2019t last.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan of the People with Pat Tomasulo,\u201d<\/a> the late-night comedy show hosted by the multitalented sports anchor and standup comedian, has been renewed for a second season on Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9.<\/a> Airing at 10 p.m. Saturdays, new episodes will premiere February 2.<\/p>\n

Taped before a studio audience at WGN headquarters on West Bradley Place, it\u2019s the first local weekly entertainment program produced there since \u201cBozo\u201d went off the air in 2001. Tomasulo presides over an entertaining mix of wry observations, news of the day and comedy bits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been exciting to watch the show evolve into \u2018must see content\u2019 much like our \u2018must watch\u2019 WGN Morning News,\u201d said Paul Rennie, president and general manager of WGN.\u00a0\u201cThe live<\/em> studio audience brings an energy to the building that we haven\u2019t had in many years. We are very committed to producing local programming that all of Chicago can enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ratings have held up since \"Man of the People\" debuted in January 2018. For its first season, the show averaged a 1.4 Nielsen rating (or 45,518 households) to finish third in its time period \u2014 beating all other entertainment programming. Among adults between 25 and 54, it was the second highest-rated regularly scheduled late-night show on Saturday nights, according to ratings analysts.<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s YouTube Channel<\/a> has grown to nearly 4,000 subscribers since the launch. (Here is the link.<\/a>) Some of Tomasulo's bits \u2014 such as The Mall Walking Ladies of Harlem Irving Plaza<\/a> \u2014 garnered more than a quarter million views across a variety of social media platforms.<\/p>\n

Best known for his role as sports anchor on the top-rated WGN Morning News, Tomasulo also created such signature segments as \u201cThe Pat-Down\u201d and \u201cThe Voice of Reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomasulo joined WGN in 2005 from WKBW, the ABC affiliate in Buffalo, New York, where he was a sports anchor. He graduated from the College of New Jersey near Trenton and began his career as weekend sports anchor, reporter and sports director for WJFW, the NBC affiliate in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> David Giesen:<\/strong> Ratings change because people's tastes and habits change. New visions, new ideas and approaches capture people's interest and attention. What appears not to be caught in this data is how the over-the-air audience has changed due to online services, Sirius-XM radio and use of IPods. I'm guessing when these trends are analyzed, the overall audience of the Chicago over-the-air radio stations has plummeted dramatically.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And they said it wouldn\u2019t last. \u201cMan of the People with Pat Tomasulo,\u201d the late-night comedy show hosted by the multitalented sports anchor and standup comedian, has been renewed for a second season on Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9. Airing at 10 p.m. Saturdays, new episodes will premiere February 2.<\/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\/20557"}],"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=20557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20564,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557\/revisions\/20564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}