tweeted<\/a> Thursday night.<\/p>\nAt ABC 7 Miller succeeds Rafer Weigel, who left to become a news anchor at KTVI-TV, the Fox affiliate in St. Louis. Weigel, son of the late Chicago sportscaster Tim Weigel, was a sports anchor for HLN\u2019s \u201cMorning Express with Robin Meade\u201d when he auditioned to host \u201cWindy City Live,\u201d ABC 7\u2019s local talk show. That job eventually went to Ryan Chiaverini, whom Weigel replaced as weekend sports anchor in March 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s official: Dionne Miller is joining WLS-Channel 7 as weekend sports anchor \u2014 and the first woman on the ABC-owned station\u2019s sports staff. Confirming a report here earlier this month, ABC 7 announced Miller\u2019s hiring Thursday in a memo to the staff. She starts Monday.<\/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\/5314"}],"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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}