WGN AM 720 show<\/a> Sunday morning. \u201cI just see this as a one-time opportunity for more people to get to know me and to get to know another Latina who is making it out there, and another Chicagoan. Because you know I feel very much a part of Chicago as I do of my community.\u201d<\/p>\nWhether it turns out to be more than a one-time opportunity depends on how the show\u2019s producers \u2014 and viewers \u2014 react to the high\u2013spirited Puerto Rican-born Chicago broadcast treasure. \u201cI plan to be myself,\u201d she said of her tryout. \u201cIf there\u2019s something I feel strongly about, I plan to speak up. But I\u2019ve been invited. I don\u2019t want to make America mad.\u201d<\/p>\n
A seasoned television news personality, former correspondent for Univision\u2019s \u201cDespierta Am\u00e9rica\u201d<\/em> morning show, and nine-year veteran of the Tribune Broadcasting station, Belaval, 39, has maintained a dual career as a standup comic, performing on improv stages and in comedy clubs throughout the area.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is a very big deal,\u201d she told Richards. \u201cI can only be thankful to you guys, my co-workers, my family, friends and all our viewers because I\u2019ve only received words of support and a lot of love. That, to me, is a pinnacle of a career: If you have that one moment where you get to reap what you sow and put it on a main stage, and then go back to the people you love.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Chicago, \u201cThe View\u201d airs at 10 a.m. weekdays on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Guests on Tuesday\u2019s show include \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, Cynthia Nixon and Josh Gad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ana Belaval, the charismatic and quick-witted \u201cAround Town\u201d reporter for the WGN Morning News,\u00a0is about to be seen around the country. In what she called the \u201cpinnacle of a career,\u201d Belaval will appear Tuesday on\u00a0\u201cThe View,\u201d\u00a0as the ABC daytime talk show auditions new talent for the coming season. With the announced departures of Jenny McCarthy... 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\/4080"}],"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=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}