<\/a>John Idler<\/p><\/div>\n
John Idler, president and general manager of ABC 7, said he was confident in the moves he's made and warned against reading too much into the ratings after only a few weeks. He predicted that viewers would adjust to the changes and pointed to consistent growth over the three-week trend.<\/p>\n
\"It\u2019s getting to be a better and better story each day,\" Idler said in an interview Wednesday. By the end of this week, \"Live with Kelly and Michael\" will have reclaimed the time period in total households: \"I would argue that the audience is still finding the program on another television station. It hasn\u2019t transferred over directly, but after week after week, they\u2019re finding the program.\"<\/p>\n
Idler said he also felt \"very encouraged\" by the progress \"Windy City Live\" is making in its new time slot, notably among women between 25 and 54.<\/p>\n
\"It certainly did well at 9 o\u2019clock, and now that we\u2019ve moved it back two hours, it\u2019s going to take a while for the audience to find it,\" he said. \"I\u2019m encouraged by what I see \u2014 particularly on the female side of the demo, which is really the demo we pay attention to the most in daytime. We\u2019ve seen some nice numbers in women 25-54. I\u2019m encouraged by that.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For more than 25 years, the sun rose over WLS-Channel 7. But now the ABC-owned station's dominance of Chicago viewership from dawn to high noon may be slipping away. \"ABC 7 News This Morning\" has fallen out of first place from 5 to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday in overall audience and, more significantly, among... 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\/436"}],"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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}