4 p.m. newscast,<\/a> which will debut this fall. He was named president and general manager of WGN last March.<\/p>\nEasterly praised Caputo as \u201ca well-respected pro, [with an] impressive career and just a great guy,\u201d adding: \u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed getting to know him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caputo, who turns 65 in July, is looking forward to life away from broadcast newsrooms for the first time in 45 years. His distinguished tenure included stints here as news director of CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32, and since December 2002, \u201cChicago\u2019s Very Own\u201d WGN.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy immediate plan is to take the rest of the summer off,\u201d Caputo told me. \u201cPlay some golf. Go on vacation. Continue building some furniture projects I've been working on.\u00a0Do some chores around the house. Take a leisurely drive to Pennsylvania to see my folks.\u00a0Planning a lot of family time.<\/p>\n
\u201cSound boring? Nope.\u00a0Sounds wonderful to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greg Caputo leaves some pretty big shoes to fill at Chicago\u2019s busiest TV news operation, but WGN-Channel 9 appears to be in no hurry to replace him. No successor has been named for Caputo, who announced plans May 5 to retire as news director of the Tribune Broadcasting station. His last day on the job... 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\/3826"}],"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=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}