{"id":4942,"date":"2014-09-15T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2014-09-15T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:12:23","slug":"wbbm-newsradio-shift-gives-kris-kridel-best-of-both-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/09\/15\/wbbm-newsradio-shift-gives-kris-kridel-best-of-both-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"WBBM Newsradio shift gives Kris Kridel \u2018best of both worlds\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Kris Kridel<\/p><\/div>\n

Kris Kridel, host of \u201cThe Noon Business Hour\u201d and one of the most respected voices on Chicago radio, is back in afternoon drive on WBBM AM 780 and WCFS FM 105.9.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a realignment of Monday-through-Friday shifts at the top-rated CBS Radio all-news station, Kridel will start her on-air duties with midday news anchor Sherman Kaplan on the noon show and stay on to anchor afternoon newscasts with Keith Johnson through 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I have the best of both worlds here,\u201d Kridel said Monday. \u201cI get to work with the afternoon team \u2014 Keith Johnson and Jeff Joniak \u2014 and I also get to co-host the \u2018Noon Business Hour\u2019 with Sherman Kaplan. I really like the energy of p.m. drive, and the biz hour is my favorite part of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

An award-winning broadcast journalist, Kridel joined WBBM Newsradio in 1986 from the former WFYR, where she was news director and anchor\/reporter. She also is a regular contributor to \u201cChicago Tonight\u201d on public television WTTW-Channel 11. In May Kridel was named here one of the most powerful women in Chicago journalism.<\/a><\/p>\n

Coinciding with the schedule change, Lisa Fielding and Veronica Carter will share anchoring duties with Regine Schlesinger from 10 a.m. to noon weekdays. Fielding and Carter had been alternating in afternoon drive alongside Johnson since Steve Grzanich left last December.<\/p>\n

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Rick Gregg<\/p><\/div>\n

In other news at WBBM Newsradio, Rick Gregg has been named full-time sports anchor and reporter, succeeding the late Eric Brown. A graduate of Joliet West High School and Southern Illinois University, Gregg has worked for Total Traffic and Weather Network since 2007.<\/p>\n

Gregg, who joins Joniak, Josh Liss, Dave Kerner and George Ofman on the sports staff, had been filling in while Brown was ill. A 26-year veteran of the station, Brown died<\/a> of cancer June 24 at 58.<\/p>\n

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Kris Kridel, host of \u201cThe Noon Business Hour\u201d and one of the most respected voices on Chicago radio, is back in afternoon drive on WBBM AM 780 and WCFS FM 105.9. In a realignment of Monday-through-Friday shifts at the top-rated CBS Radio all-news station, Kridel will start her on-air duties with midday news anchor Sherman... 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\/4942"}],"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=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}