{"id":3562,"date":"2014-05-23T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2014-05-23T06:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T11:03:23","slug":"abc-7-sweeps-to-the-top-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/23\/abc-7-sweeps-to-the-top-again\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 sweeps to the top again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mark<\/a>

<\/a> Mark Giangreco, Cheryl Burton, Ron Magers, Kathy Brock and Jerry Taft<\/p><\/div>\n

Back to you, Ron and Kathy.<\/p>\n

Chicago news viewers remained faithful to WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>in the just-finished May sweeps, giving the ABC-owned station a decisive Nielsen victory in all local news time periods from morning to night.<\/p>\n

Whatever momentum WMAQ-Channel 5 <\/a>may have gained in February<\/a> from the Winter Olympics and Jimmy Fallon\u2019s \u201cTonight Show\u201d debut appears to have dissipated. Despite the strength of NBC\u2019s prime-time performance in May, the station\u2019s local newscasts finished no better than second and, in some cases, third.<\/p>\n

In the marquee ratings race at 10 p.m. weekdays, ABC 7 led the market with a 9.1 rating (321,594 households), followed by NBC 5 with a 5.9 rating (208,506 households) and CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> with a 3.6 rating (127,224 households.) At 9 p.m. weekdays, Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9<\/a> had 4.1 rating (144,894 households), and Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 <\/a>had a 2.2 rating (77,748 households).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very gratifying to do well in such a highly competitive news market like Chicago,\u201d Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director of ABC 7, said in a statement Thursday.\u00a0\u201cOur team is always pushing to provide the best possible news coverage day in and day out. I\u2019m also grateful to the incredibly loyal ABC 7 viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among adults between 25 and 54 \u2014 the demographic most coveted by advertisers \u2014 ABC 7 \"Eyewitness News\" also finished first at 4, 5, 6 and 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

But the must-watch<\/a> \u201cWGN Morning News\u201d continued to show impressive growth too, tying ABC 7 for first place among 25-to-54 viewers from 4 to 6 a.m., and leading everyone in the adult demo for the full six-hour time period from 4 to 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

\"WGN<\/a>

WGN Morning News<\/p><\/div>\n

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Back to you, Ron and Kathy. Chicago news viewers remained faithful to WLS-Channel 7 in the just-finished May sweeps, giving the ABC-owned station a decisive Nielsen victory in all local news time periods from morning to night.<\/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\/3562"}],"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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}