{"id":3676,"date":"2014-06-08T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2014-06-08T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T21:37:20","slug":"holmes-rises-to-new-morning-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/06\/08\/holmes-rises-to-new-morning-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Holmes rises to new morning challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Laurence<\/a>

<\/a> Laurence Holmes<\/p><\/div>\n

For veteran Chicago sportscaster Laurence Holmes, it\u2019ll soon be game time morning and night.<\/p>\n

While continuing as evening host on CBS Radio sports\/talk WSCR AM 670,<\/a> where he\u2019s been a fixture for 16 years, Holmes has been tapped to anchor a new morning show for 120 Sports,<\/a>\u00a0the live-streaming video network recently announced by Time Inc. and a multi-league partnership.<\/p>\n

Starting early this summer, Holmes will front a national sports roundup from 7 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday along with Dylan McGorty, a Chicago comedy actor and weekend co-host on Tribune Broadcasting sports\/talk WGWG LP 87.7.<\/a> Social media will be handled by Meghan Kluth, sports and entertainment reporter for The Game 87.7 FM.<\/p>\n

Comparing the show to \u201cPardon the Interruption,\u201d hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon on ESPN.com,<\/a> Holmes said: \u201cIt's a more relaxed free-form flow with video and highlights. We look back at the night before and ahead to what's happening the next night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"120<\/a>No title or start date has been announced for the show, which has been in daily rehearsals at Harpo Studios, where 120 Sports is based.<\/p>\n

Holmes, who turned 39 on Friday and has been on the radio since he started a talk show at Homewood-Flossmoor High School at age 16, said he\u2019s grateful that his bosses at the Score are letting him work for 120 Sports while continuing his radio show, which airs from 6 to 10 p.m. weeknights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI'm not<\/em> leaving the Score,\u201d he told me. \u201cI love that place and have been there since I started as a producer for Les Grobstein back in 1998. The radio show is the foundation for everything I do, and I love what my producers, Joe Ostrowski and Herb Lawrence, have built for me at night. The Score has been quite gracious in letting me explore other opportunities. [Program director] Mitch Rosen has been proactive in allowing me to grow as a broadcaster on all platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the time being, Holmes has reduced his visibility on NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> where he filled in as a sports anchor and reporter. Some of his duties have been assumed by Siafa Lewis, who joined the station<\/a> as a freelance reporter and sports anchor in May. Now on a leave of absence from NBC 5, Holmes is expected to return in time for football season to appear on \u201cSports Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

120 Sports will be accessible as a free app for mobile and tablet devices as well as online at 120Sports.com.<\/a> An equity partnership among Time Inc.\/Sports Illustrated, the NHL, MLB.com<\/a> and Jerry Reinsdorf\u2019s Silver Chalice, it\u2019s named for offering original sports programming in two-minute segments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For veteran Chicago sportscaster Laurence Holmes, it\u2019ll soon be game time morning and night. While continuing as evening host on CBS Radio sports\/talk WSCR AM 670, where he\u2019s been a fixture for 16 years, Holmes has been tapped to anchor a new morning show for 120 Sports,\u00a0the live-streaming video network recently announced by Time Inc.... 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\/3676"}],"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=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}