{"id":5314,"date":"2014-10-16T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2014-10-16T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T03:17:06","slug":"dionne-miller-scores-abc-7-sports-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/10\/16\/dionne-miller-scores-abc-7-sports-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionne Miller scores ABC 7 sports job"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dionne<\/a>

<\/a> Dionne Miller<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s official: Dionne Miller is joining WLS-Channel 7<\/a> as weekend sports anchor \u2014 and the first woman on the ABC-owned station\u2019s sports staff.<\/p>\n

Confirming a report here <\/a>earlier this month, ABC 7 announced Miller\u2019s hiring Thursday in a memo to the staff. She starts Monday.<\/p>\n

Miller, a native of Chardon, Ohio, and former host and reporter for Fox Sports Ohio and Big Ten Network, most recently was weekend sports anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.<\/a> She signed off last month after more than two years at Fox 32.<\/p>\n

\u201cDionne Miller has won over tough Chicago sports fans in the 2\u00bd years she\u2019s worked in this city,\u201d said Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director of ABC 7. \u201cShe knows sports inside and out, is passionate about the teams she covers and has earned a great reputation in the market. We are thrilled she\u2019s coming to ABC 7 and know she\u2019ll make an already fantastic sports team with Mark Giangreco and Jim Rose even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>

Mark Giangreco<\/p><\/div>\n

Giangreco, the station\u2019s veteran sports director and No. 1 sports anchor, said: \u201cWe were so lucky to have the opportunity to hire such a personable and professional reporter\/anchor from within our own market. It\u2019s hard to find an established talent who is so well liked and respected by players, coaches, colleagues, competitors and of course, viewers. This is a great get for us!\u201d<\/p>\n

A graduate of Houghton College, a Christian liberal arts college in southwestern New York State, Miller worked earlier 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.\u00a0Miller\u2019s husband, Ray Crawford, covers college football and basketball for Chicago-based Campus Insiders.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Thrilled to begin an exciting new chapter,\" Miller tweeted<\/a> Thursday night.<\/p>\n

At 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}]}}