{"id":20989,"date":"2019-03-13T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=20989"},"modified":"2019-03-13T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T22:37:29","slug":"cbs-2-drops-anchors-rob-johnson-marissa-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/03\/13\/cbs-2-drops-anchors-rob-johnson-marissa-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS 2 drops anchors Rob Johnson, Marissa Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Rob Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n

Languishing in last place and facing historically low ratings, WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> cut evening news anchor Rob Johnson and morning news anchor Marissa Bailey in an overhaul of talent announced today at the CBS-owned station.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made the decision not to renew Marissa Bailey and Rob Johnson\u2019s contracts,\u201d Derek Dalton, president and general manager of CBS 2, said in a statement. \u201cWe thank them for their professionalism and contributions to CBS 2 and we wish them well.<\/p>\n

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Marissa Bailey<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe look forward to having Brad Edwards join Irika Sargent as co-anchor of our evening newscasts and Mike Puccinelli joining Erin Kennedy on our morning newscasts.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBS 2 officials did not respond to requests for further comment. Johnson declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a great eight years at CBS Chicago and in the most amazing city in the country,\" Bailey said. \"I took a leap of faith coming here, and it was the best decision I ever made. I\u2019ve been lucky to go from a general assignment reporter to sitting on the anchor desk every morning with colleagues and friends. I\u2019ve had the honor of meeting amazing people, telling their stories and, most importantly, working alongside the best, most fun and professional staff and crew out there.<\/p>\n

\"For now, I\u2019m going to enjoy staying up past 7:30 p.m., sleeping in and eating breakfast with my little guy Beau . . . until I start the next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson joined CBS 2 in 2006 as 5 p.m. news anchor and was promoted the following year to 10 p.m. news anchor. He added the 6 p.m. newscast in 2013. Johnson previously worked eight years as weekend news anchor and reporter at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/p>\n

Bailey joined CBS 2 as a reporter and weekend morning news anchor in 2012 and was promoted to weekday morning co-anchor alongside Kennedy in 2017.<\/p>\n

Edwards joined CBS 2 as an investigative reporter in 2012. Puccinelli joined CBS 2 as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Languishing in last place and facing historically low ratings, WBBM-Channel 2 cut evening news anchor Rob Johnson and morning news anchor Marissa Bailey in an overhaul of talent announced today at the CBS-owned station. \u201cWe have made the decision not to renew Marissa Bailey and Rob Johnson\u2019s contracts,\u201d Derek Dalton, president and general manager of... 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\/20989"}],"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=20989"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21001,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20989\/revisions\/21001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}