Excuse my skepticism, but where\u2019s the need and who is the potential audience? Will it be original content generated by a staff of reporters, producers and writers based here? Or will it be a repackaging of clickbait video gathered from Nexstar stations around the country?<\/em><\/p>\nBob Roberts:<\/strong> I say give it a chance. I am not sure many of those commenting understand the concept, repackaging local reports from dozens of co-owned stations, but the hiring of 120 people means that won't be all the newscast will offer. Content undoubtedly will have some Chicago flavor but it will not be another WGN-TV newscast. Those who want to hear nothing but the \"pundits\" available on other channels who agree with a viewer's personal viewpoint won't like this but many others will. I can't wait to see it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a legend in any job is never easy \u2014 especially when that legend will still be working down the hall from you. On Wednesday Dominick Stasi was named to succeed Jennifer Lyons as news director of WGN-Channel 9 following Nexstar Media Group\u2019s promotion of Lyons to vice president of news for WGN America. Lyons... 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\/24156"}],"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=24156"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24172,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions\/24172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}