I would remind you of a time when Channel 5 news gave Channel 7 stiff competition. Channel 5 had Ron Magers and Carol Marin. Then someone decided that it was a good idea to hire Jerry Springer to do commentary on the 10 p.m newscasts. Long story short, Magers and Marin quit and Channel 5 ratings tanked. And this was during a sweeps period. So if people are outraged enough, they will change their viewing habits. The outrage toward Cheryl Burton is minuscule and the ratings show she is no detriment to the station's success. If she was truly bad (which she isn't) the station would have reassigned her or let her go already.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: It was deja vu for Ryan Chiaverini, who filled in for two days this week as sports anchor on WLS-Channel 7 newscasts. Before he spent a decade as co-host of the now-dead \u201cWindy City Live,\u201d Chiaverini anchored sports for five years at the ABC-owned station. Since September he\u2019s been co-hosting... 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\/32493"}],"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=32493"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32508,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32493\/revisions\/32508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}