{"id":24882,"date":"2020-03-24T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=24882"},"modified":"2020-03-24T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:00:33","slug":"chicago-tv-news-startups-still-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/03\/24\/chicago-tv-news-startups-still-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago TV news startups still up in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> CBS 2 Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

The coronavirus pandemic threatens to delay the launch of two ambitious new Chicago-based television news operations in the coming months.<\/p>\n

CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> had announced plans to roll out CBSN Local, a 24\/7 streaming news service, by the end of March.<\/a>\u00a0But in light of everything else going on, CBS 2 officials said Monday they don't know when the service will start up.<\/p>\n

Featuring locally anchored programming, live breaking news coverage and archived, on-demand local news content, similar ventures already are operating out of CBS stations in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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News Nation<\/p><\/div>\n

Questions also surround the launch of a live daily national newscast on WGN America,<\/a> the Chicago-based cable network owned by Nexstar Media Group. \"News Nation,\"<\/a> a three-hour primetime newscast originating from a newsroom and studio at WGN-Channel 9, was to have debuted this summer.<\/p>\n

Hiring began in January on a staff that eventually will exceed 120, according to the company. But the handful of employees who've been hired have been unable to report to work because of stay-at-home orders.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Lyons, vice president of news for WGN America, said Monday the network is still moving ahead for a planned summer debut, but added: \"It\u2019s too early to know if COVID-19 will impact our launch.\"<\/p>\n

A Nexstar source said \"News Nation\" will emphasize weather, adding: \"With our meteorologists all over the country it makes sense for us to be heavy into weather as well.\"<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day: <\/a>Carol Haan Morris:<\/strong> Great idea, WGN! All those visuals translate so well on radio!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The coronavirus pandemic threatens to delay the launch of two ambitious new Chicago-based television news operations in the coming months. CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 had announced plans to roll out CBSN Local, a 24\/7 streaming news service, by the end of March.\u00a0But in light of everything else going on, CBS 2 officials said Monday they don't... 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\/24882"}],"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=24882"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24889,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882\/revisions\/24889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}