{"id":5198,"date":"2014-10-02T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T22:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:16:54","slug":"abc-7-sports-team-may-draft-fox-32s-dionne-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/10\/02\/abc-7-sports-team-may-draft-fox-32s-dionne-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 sports team may draft Fox 32\u2019s Dionne Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5199\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/10\/02\/abc-7-sports-team-may-draft-fox-32s-dionne-miller\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5199\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5199\" alt=\"Dionne Miller\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dionne-Miller-238x300.png\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dionne-Miller-238x300.png 238w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dionne-Miller-150x188.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dionne-Miller-400x502.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dionne-Miller-200x251.png 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dionne-Miller.png 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Dionne Miller<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dionne Miller, who signed off earlier this week as weekend sports anchor at Fox-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WFLD-Channel 32,<\/a>\u00a0could be headed for top-rated ABC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WLS-Channel 7.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although no deal has been reached, sources said, Miller has met with ABC 7 bosses and is among top candidates to replace weekend sports anchor and reporter Rafer Weigel, who\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/08\/19\/the-son-sets-rafer-weigel-leaving-abc-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">leaving<\/a> to become a news anchor at KTVI-TV, the Fox affiliate in St. Louis. His last day on the air here will be Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for ABC 7 was unavailable for comment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If an agreement is finalized, Miller would become the first woman to join the full-time sports staff at ABC 7.<\/p>\n<p>Miller joined Fox 32 in April 2012 as weekend sports anchor and regular contributor to the Sunday night sports highlights show \u201cThe Final Word.\u201d\u00a0She previously was a free-lance host and reporter for Fox Sports Ohio and Big Ten Network. Earlier she worked for WCMH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Sports Network, WWSB-TV, the ABC affiliate in Sarasota, Florida, and XETV-TV, the Fox affiliate in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Chardon, Ohio, Miller graduated from Houghton College, a Christian liberal arts college in southwestern New York State.<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s last day at Fox 32 was Sunday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvspy\/dionne-miller-leaves-wfld_b130464\" target=\"_blank\">TVSpy, <\/a>which reported Big Ten Network\u2019s Evan Fitzgerald will be filling in for her until a permanent replacement is named.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/10\/01\/a-personal-note-about-my-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t miss a thing!<\/a> <\/strong>Starting Tuesday, October 7, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com \" target=\"_blank\">RobertFeder.com <\/a>will become part of the exclusive, premium <strong>digitalPLUS<\/strong> tier of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com \" target=\"_blank\"> ChicagoTribune.com.<\/a> For a limited time, the Tribune is offering my readers a special 52-week deal for $99 (which is $30 off the regular discounted price). 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Although no deal has been reached, sources said, Miller has met with ABC 7 bosses and is among top candidates to replace weekend sports anchor and reporter Rafer Weigel, who\u2019s leaving to... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/10\/02\/abc-7-sports-team-may-draft-fox-32s-dionne-miller\/\">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\/5198"}],"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=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}