{"id":21255,"date":"2019-04-03T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=21255"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:58:15","slug":"wgn-declares-victory-election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/04\/03\/wgn-declares-victory-election-night\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN declares victory on election night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> WGN (April 2, 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n

Maybe it was fitting that the station calling itself \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d was also the first TV news outlet to call the election of Chicago\u2019s new mayor.<\/p>\n

Forty-five minutes after polls closed Tuesday, Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9<\/a> declared Lori Lightfoot the winner. (Here is the link.<\/a>) The Associated Press called the race for Lightfoot in a bulletin <\/a>at 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

WGN\u2019s marathon coverage, anchored by Joe Donlon and Micah Materre, began with its early evening newscast and ran well into the night. From 7 to 9 p.m. the station ranked No. 1 among adults between 25 and 54 \u2014 the key demographic for advertisers \u2014 according to overnight Nielsen ratings.<\/p>\n

By the 9 p.m. hour, which included Lightfoot\u2019s historic victory speech, WGN led among all viewers with a 6.7 rating (217,837 households).<\/p>\n

ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> anchored by Alan Krashesky and Cheryl Burton, took the lead in households and adult demos at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Combined viewership among Chicago\u2019s commercial stations at 10 p.m. topped 604,700 households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe it was fitting that the station calling itself \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d was also the first TV news outlet to call the election of Chicago\u2019s new mayor. Forty-five minutes after polls closed Tuesday, Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 declared Lori Lightfoot the winner. (Here is the link.) The Associated Press called the race for Lightfoot in... 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\/21255"}],"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=21255"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21265,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions\/21265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}