{"id":4415,"date":"2014-08-05T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:17:49","slug":"cbs-2-expands-weekend-newscasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/08\/05\/cbs-2-expands-weekend-newscasts\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS 2 expands weekend newscasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4417\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/08\/05\/cbs-2-expands-weekend-newscasts\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4417\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4417\" alt=\"Jim Williams and Mai Martinez\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Williams-Martinez.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Williams-Martinez.jpg 960w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Williams-Martinez-300x194.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Williams-Martinez-150x97.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Williams-Martinez-400x258.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Williams-Martinez-800x517.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Williams-Martinez-200x129.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Jim Williams and Mai Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CBS-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2014\/02\/04\/cbs-2s-dave-savini-pleads-guilty-to-dui-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\">WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> will add three hours of local news on weekends this fall, including the expansion of its 10 p.m. newscast to one hour.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Williams and Mai Martinez, currently seen at 5 and 10 p.m. Saturdays and at 5:30 and 10 p.m. Sundays, will anchor the hourlong weekend newscasts at 10 p.m., starting September 13.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, CBS 2 will add one hour to its Saturday and Sunday morning news blocks. Local news will air from 5 to 6 a.m. and from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturdays (with \u201cCBS This Morning: Saturday\u201d in between from 6 to 8 a.m.), and from 5 to 8 a.m. Sundays (followed by \u201cCBS News Sunday Morning\u201d from 8 to 9:30 a.m.).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4416\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MarissaBailey.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4416\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4416\" alt=\"Marissa Bailey\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MarissaBailey-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MarissaBailey-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MarissaBailey-57x57.jpg 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MarissaBailey-72x72.jpg 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MarissaBailey-114x114.jpg 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MarissaBailey-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marissa Bailey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marissa Bailey will continue to anchor weekend mornings, with Ed Curran on weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal news is becoming more important on the weekends,\u201d Marty Wilke, president and general manager of CBS 2, said in a statement Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cBy adding three additional hours of news, we will have more time to tell our viewers what\u2019s happening in and around Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with the move, CBS 2 will air syndicated reruns of two network dramas following the expanded late newscasts. Back-to-back episodes of \u201cThe Good Wife\u201d will air from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturdays, and back-to-back episodes of \u201cBlue Bloods\u201dwill air fro 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Good Wife\u2019 and \u2018Blue Bloods\u2019 are two of the most-watched shows on CBS, which ranks No. 1 in primetime in Chicago,\u201d Wilke said. \u201cBy expanding our news and giving viewers another chance to see encore episodes of these popular shows, we look forward to tapping into the growing market of viewers who watch television on the weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 will add three hours of local news on weekends this fall, including the expansion of its 10 p.m. newscast to one hour. Jim Williams and Mai Martinez, currently seen at 5 and 10 p.m. Saturdays and at 5:30 and 10 p.m. Sundays, will anchor the hourlong weekend newscasts at 10 p.m., starting... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/08\/05\/cbs-2-expands-weekend-newscasts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/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\/4415"}],"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=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8630,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/8630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}