{"id":33042,"date":"2022-04-07T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=33042"},"modified":"2022-04-07T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:18:00","slug":"will-joe-donlon-irika-sargent-stop-cbs-2s-revolving-door-anchors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2022\/04\/07\/will-joe-donlon-irika-sargent-stop-cbs-2s-revolving-door-anchors\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Joe Donlon and Irika Sargent stop CBS 2's revolving door of anchors?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joe Donlon and Irika Sargent<\/p><\/div>\n

When Joe Donlon hauls anchor over to WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> next month, it will mark the 14th change in 22 years to the talent lineup on the CBS-owned station's nightly newscasts.<\/p>\n

Wednesday's\u00a0announcement<\/a>\u00a0that Donlon would replace Brad Edwards alongside Irika Sargent at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. raised hopes once again of creating a team that clicks with each other and with viewers.<\/p>\n

Granted it's been close to 50 years since it happened before \u2014 when Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson first teamed up on \"THE Ten O'Clock News.\"\u00a0But with CBS 2 again under the leadership of smart people who know what they're doing, who knows? Maybe there'll be magic in the air again.<\/p>\n

They'll need that and a lot more. In the latest Nielsen ratings sweep, CBS 2's late news ran dead last in key adult demographics, finishing sixth out of six.<\/p>\n

Here's a rundown of CBS 2\u2019s 10 p.m. anchors since Y2K:<\/p>\n

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  1. Carol Marin<\/strong> (2000)<\/li>\n
  2. David Kerley<\/strong> and Linda MacLennan<\/strong> (2000 to 2001)<\/li>\n
  3. David Kerley<\/strong> and Tracy Townsend<\/strong> (2001 to 2002)<\/li>\n
  4. Antonio Mora<\/strong> and Tracy Townsend<\/strong> (2002)<\/li>\n
  5. Antonio Mora<\/strong> and Linda MacLennan<\/strong> (2002 to 2003)<\/li>\n
  6. Antonio Mora<\/strong> and Tracy Townsend<\/strong> (2003)<\/li>\n
  7. Antonio Mora<\/strong> and Diann Burns<\/strong> (2003 to 2007)<\/li>\n
  8. Rob Johnson<\/strong> and Diann Burns<\/strong> (2007 to 2008)<\/li>\n
  9. Rob Johnson<\/strong> and Anne State<\/strong> (2008 to 2009)<\/li>\n
  10. Rob Johnson<\/strong> (2009 to 2010)<\/li>\n
  11. Rob Johnson<\/strong> and Kate Sullivan<\/strong> (2010 to 2015)<\/li>\n
  12. Rob Johnson<\/strong> and Irika Sargent<\/strong> (2015 to 2019)<\/li>\n
  13. Brad Edwards<\/strong> and Irika Sargent<\/strong> (2019 to 2022)<\/li>\n
  14. Joe Donlon<\/strong> and Irika Sargent<\/strong> (2022)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Wednesday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Amy Jacobson:<\/strong> A brilliant move!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When Joe Donlon hauls anchor over to WBBM-Channel 2 next month, it will mark the 14th change in 22 years to the talent lineup on the CBS-owned station's nightly newscasts. Wednesday's\u00a0announcement\u00a0that Donlon would replace Brad Edwards alongside Irika Sargent at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. raised hopes once again of creating a team that clicks... 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\/33042"}],"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=33042"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33058,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33042\/revisions\/33058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}