{"id":2522,"date":"2014-02-25T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2014-02-25T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:05:09","slug":"nbc-5-news-victory-comes-with-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/02\/25\/nbc-5-news-victory-comes-with-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC 5 news victory comes with a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"Sochi\"$ <\/a><\/a>WMAQ-Channel 5 may be credited with a gold medal in Chicago\u2019s late-news ratings race for February \u2014 but it\u2019ll be with an asterisk.<\/p>\n

Boosted by its network\u2019s coverage of the Winter Olympics, the NBC-owned station\u2019s 10 p.m Monday-through-Friday newscast appears certain to win the Nielsens when the monthlong sweeps period ends Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But when you exclude the six nights that programming from Sochi delayed the start of NBC 5\u2019s late news, it\u2019s a totally different story: ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, the perennial market leader, finishes ahead by a margin of more than 30 percent (or more than 109,500 households). Among viewers between 25 and 54, it\u2019s a dead heat between the two.<\/p>\n

CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, languishing at 10 p.m., fell to fourth place behind Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9\u2019s 9 p.m. news hour. Despite its strong showing in the ratings locally, \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d lost its outlet in 75 million homes nationwide earlier this month when WGN America dropped<\/a>\u00a0the prime-time newscast after more than 35 years.<\/p>\n

Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 remains an also-ran in the market.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at Chicago\u2019s late-news anchor teams, followed by their Nielsen ratings and households for February 2014.<\/em> Click on the arrows to advance the photos:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t

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1. NBC 5 Rob Stafford and Allison Rosati<\/b> 9.2 (325,128 households)<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t
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2. ABC 7 Kathy Brock and Ron Magers<\/b> 8.7 (307,458 households)<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t
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3. WGN 9 Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre<\/b> 5.1 (180,234 households)<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t
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4. CBS 2 Rob Johnson and Kate Sullivan<\/b> 5.0 (176,700 households)<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t
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5. Fox 32 Jeff Herndon and Dawn Hasbrouck<\/b> 2.6 (91,884 households)<\/p>\n\t <\/div>\n\t <\/div><\/div>\n\t ‹<\/a>\n\t ›<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WMAQ-Channel 5 may be credited with a gold medal in Chicago\u2019s late-news ratings race for February \u2014 but it\u2019ll be with an asterisk. Boosted by its network\u2019s coverage of the Winter Olympics, the NBC-owned station\u2019s 10 p.m Monday-through-Friday newscast appears certain to win the Nielsens when the monthlong sweeps period ends Wednesday.<\/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\/2522"}],"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=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}