{"id":24174,"date":"2020-01-16T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=24174"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:47:17","slug":"wgn-launch-half-hour-sports-show-1030-weeknights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/01\/16\/wgn-launch-half-hour-sports-show-1030-weeknights\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN to launch half-hour sports show at 10:30 weeknights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Dan Roan and Jarrett Payton<\/p><\/div>\n

You won\u2019t find live sports broadcasts on WGN-Channel 9<\/a> anymore, but that doesn\u2019t mean the Nexstar Media Group station is out of the sports business entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cGN Sports,\u201d a live, half-hour sports show, will air at 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, starting January 28. It will be hosted by WGN sports anchors Dan Roan and Jarrett Payton.<\/p>\n

The new show will feature \u201csports news and highlights of the day, in-studio guest interviews on upcoming matches, as well as the latest in sports gaming, fantasy sports and more,\u201d according to an announcement Thursday. Reports will be provided by Lauren Magiera and Josh Frydman.<\/p>\n

For the show's opening week Payton will report from\u00a0Super Bowl LIV\u00a0in Miami.<\/p>\n

Payton and Frydman previously co-hosted \u201cSports Feed,\u201d which aired from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday through Thursday on CLTV. Its last broadcast was December 30 \u2014 one day before Nexstar pulled the plug on the cable news channel.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstant Replay,\u201d the weekend sports highlights show, continues to air from 9:40 to 10 p.m. Sundays.<\/p>\n

Last year WGN ended its 72-year run as home of the Cubs. Coupled with the departure of Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox games (which moved exclusively to NBC Sports Chicago), WGN lost its distinction as the only station in America to broadcast MLB, NBA and NHL games over the air for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You won\u2019t find live sports broadcasts on WGN-Channel 9 anymore, but that doesn\u2019t mean the Nexstar Media Group station is out of the sports business entirely. \u201cGN Sports,\u201d a live, half-hour sports show, will air at 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, starting January 28. It will be hosted by WGN sports anchors Dan Roan and... 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\/24174"}],"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=24174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24180,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions\/24180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}