{"id":3493,"date":"2014-05-18T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2014-05-18T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:32:02","slug":"newcomer-joins-cbs-2s-morning-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/18\/newcomer-joins-cbs-2s-morning-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomer joins CBS 2\u2019s morning parade"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Erin<\/a>

<\/a> Erin Kennedy<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s showtime for Erin Kennedy as WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> tries yet again to compete for morning news viewers.<\/p>\n

Kennedy, just in from in Cleveland, debuts Monday alongside Kris Gutierrez on the CBS-owned station\u2019s chronically anemic morning newscast. Airing from 4:30 to 7 a.m. weekdays, it\u2019s been trailing the ratings for years.<\/p>\n

Until Kennedy\u2019s hiring was announced<\/a>\u00a0May 6, CBS 2 had gone 12 months without a permanent morning anchor team in place. Billboards around town promoted Megan Glaros weather and Derrick Young traffic instead, all but ignoring the news product itself.<\/p>\n

Will viewers check out Kennedy and Gutierrez?<\/p>\n

Jeff Kiernan, vice president and news director at CBS 2, cited the \u201cintelligence and warmth\u201d Kennedy would bring to morning news in Chicago, calling her \u201can exceptional broadcaster\u201d and \u201can experienced news anchor and reporter.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what the station may need most of all is a little stability on its morning anchor desk. Besides Gutierrez, others who\u2019ve popped up in recent years included Marissa Bailey, Steve Bartelstein, Susan Carlson, Kristyn Hartman, Don Schwenneker, Roseanne Tellez, Jim Williams and the late Randy Salerno, not to mention \"Monsters & Money in the Morning,\u201d the four-headed beast featuring Mike North, Dan Jiggetts, Terry Savage and Mike Hegedus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s showtime for Erin Kennedy as WBBM-Channel 2 tries yet again to compete for morning news viewers. Kennedy, just in from in Cleveland, debuts Monday alongside Kris Gutierrez on the CBS-owned station\u2019s chronically anemic morning newscast. Airing from 4:30 to 7 a.m. weekdays, it\u2019s been trailing the ratings for years. Until Kennedy\u2019s hiring was announced\u00a0May... 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\/3493"}],"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=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}