{"id":4616,"date":"2014-08-20T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2014-08-20T06:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:02:55","slug":"anchors-realign-in-wgn-news-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/08\/20\/anchors-realign-in-wgn-news-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchors realign in WGN news boost"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lourdes<\/a>

<\/a> Lourdes Duarte<\/p><\/div>\n

The growth of WGN-Channel 9\u2019s<\/a> late-afternoon news block will mean more time for anchors Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre and a move to early mornings for Lourdes Duarte.<\/p>\n

Starting September 8, the Tribune Broadcasting station will add an hour of news at 4 p.m. weekdays, boosting its output to a record 61 hours of live local news each week.<\/p>\n

Suppelsa and Materre, who now anchor together at 9 p.m., also will front the expanded WGN Evening News<\/a> from 4 to 6 p.m. along with chief meteorologist Tom Skilling. Sarah Jindra will report traffic.<\/p>\n

Duarte, who has been anchoring the hourlong 5 p.m. newscast with Suppelsa, will shift to anchoring with Dan Ponce from 4 to 6 a.m. weekdays. While moving to the top-rated WGN Morning News<\/a> portends good things for the charismatic Duarte, it breaks up the unmistakable chemistry of Suppelsa and Duarte, arguably the best combo at the station.<\/p>\n

Duarte succeeds Erin McElroy on the early-morning anchor desk alongside Ponce. McElroy, who recently announced her engagement<\/a> to WGN morning meteorologist Demetrius Ivory, will continue to report traffic and breaking news on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way people consume news has changed and breaking news is becoming more important to our viewers,\u201d news director Jennifer Lyons said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cWGN News, as Chicago\u2019s Very Own, will continue to be there live when news happens. By expanding our evening news we will better serve our viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>

Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The growth of WGN-Channel 9\u2019s late-afternoon news block will mean more time for anchors Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre and a move to early mornings for Lourdes Duarte. Starting September 8, the Tribune Broadcasting station will add an hour of news at 4 p.m. weekdays, boosting its output to a record 61 hours of live... 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\/4616"}],"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=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}