{"id":3245,"date":"2014-05-05T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2014-05-05T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:00:15","slug":"joan-esposito-joins-wbez-as-part-time-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/05\/joan-esposito-joins-wbez-as-part-time-anchor\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Esposito joins WBEZ as part-time anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Joan Esposito<\/p><\/div>\n

Fifteen years after she left Chicago television, former news anchor Joan Esposito is getting back on the air.<\/p>\n

Esposito, 60, has been hired part-time at Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5,<\/a> where she will serve as a backup and vacation-relief news anchor during mornings, middays and afternoons.<\/p>\n

Now that her two children (son Ben, 20, and daughter Thomasina, 16) are older, Esposito expressed interest in returning to broadcasting on a limited basis, according to Sally Eisele, managing editor at WBEZ. \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is developing a relationship with someone who can help us out and get to know the public radio side of the business,\u201d Eisele said.<\/p>\n

Esposito, who first came to Chicago in 1981 as a 27-year-old reporter and weekend anchor at Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9, became a Monday-through-Friday anchor star at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 and later at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5.<\/p>\n

Since leaving NBC 5 in 1999, Esposito formed J2 Strategic Communications,<\/a> a media training firm. She's also taught broadcast writing and production at Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy.<\/p>\n

Although best known for her television work, Esposito has a bit of radio on her resume, too. She began her career as a reporter and news anchor at WRFD AM in Columbus, Ohio. She also has filled in at CBS Radio album adult alternative WXRT FM 93.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years after she left Chicago television, former news anchor Joan Esposito is getting back on the air. Esposito, 60, has been hired part-time at Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5, where she will serve as a backup and vacation-relief news anchor during mornings, middays and afternoons. Now that her two children (son Ben, 20,... 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\/3245"}],"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=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}