{"id":3446,"date":"2014-05-15T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2014-05-15T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:09:40","slug":"talk-of-changes-to-channel-9s-daytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/15\/talk-of-changes-to-channel-9s-daytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk of changes to Channel 9\u2019s daytime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While WLS-Channel 7 is certain to keep \u201cWindy City Live\u201d on its weekday schedule at 11 a.m., and WCIU-Channel 26 will continue \u201cYou & Me This Morning\u201d at 6 a.m., could there be another locally produced daytime talk show coming to Chicago television this fall?<\/p>\n

WGN-Channel 9, <\/a>which already airs 54 hours a week of live local news, is considering jumping into the daily talk show business, too.<\/p>\n

With the Tribune Broadcasting station losing the syndicated \u201cRachael Ray Show\u201d to ABC 7 this fall, replacing it with a local talker in the 10 a.m. hour could be a profitable bridge between \u201cWGN Morning News\u201d (which airs from 4 to 10 a.m.) and \u201cWGN Midday News\u201d (which airs from 11 a..m. to 1 p.m.).<\/p>\n

Greg Easterly, new president and general manager of WGN, aired an information-entertainment hybrid called \u201cNew Day Cleveland\u201d between morning news blocks at his former station, WJW-TV, and is said to be a fan of the idea here. While it\u2019s possible WGN could replace Rachael Ray with another syndicated show at 10 a.m., Easterly said: \u201cWe will continue to explore locally produced options as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another candidate for the time slot is \u201cCelebrity Name Game,\u201d a new syndicated pop-culture game show hosted by Craig Ferguson. Produced by Courteney Cox and David Arquette, and based on the board game Identity Crisis, the show was picked up by Tribune Broadcasting stations nationwide.<\/p>\n

Also leaving WGN\u2019s daytime lineup is \u201cThe Test,\u201d which has been airing at 3 p.m. and was canceled after one season in syndication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While WLS-Channel 7 is certain to keep \u201cWindy City Live\u201d on its weekday schedule at 11 a.m., and WCIU-Channel 26 will continue \u201cYou & Me This Morning\u201d at 6 a.m., could there be another locally produced daytime talk show coming to Chicago television this fall? WGN-Channel 9, which already airs 54 hours a week of... 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\/3446"}],"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=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}