{"id":5582,"date":"2014-11-05T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2014-11-05T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:19:22","slug":"abc-7-wins-election-night-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/11\/05\/abc-7-wins-election-night-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 wins election night ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5583\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/11\/05\/abc-7-wins-election-night-ratings\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5583\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5583\" alt=\"Bruce Rauner\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ABC-7-Rauner.png\" width=\"906\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ABC-7-Rauner.png 906w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ABC-7-Rauner-300x173.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ABC-7-Rauner-150x86.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ABC-7-Rauner-400x231.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ABC-7-Rauner-800x462.png 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ABC-7-Rauner-200x115.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Bruce Rauner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although not quite by the landslide margin of previous election nights,<a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\" target=\"_blank\"> WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>again was the people\u2019s choice for its assured and proficient coverage of Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen overnight ratings showed the ABC-owned station leading the market from 10 to 11:30 p.m. when Chicago\u2019s five major players were competing with live local reportage.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Viewers in 765,000 households \u2014 or 40 percent of those watching television \u2014 were tuned to one of the five stations during the 90-minute block that included the declaration of Republican Bruce Rauner\u2019s victory for governor over Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>Led by veteran news anchors Ron Magers and Kathy Brock, who always shine on nights like these, ABC 7 benefitted from the strongest lineup of reporters in the field and the most experienced production team behind them.\u00a0All that was lacking was a bit more pizzazz in the selection and deployment of the station's in-studio analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Close behind ABC 7\u2019s fine-tuned machine was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com \" target=\"_blank\">WMAQ-Channel 5, <\/a>where political editor Carol Marin and former Sun-Times political reporter Dave McKinney (who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/10\/22\/sun-times-reporter-mckinney-cites-chilling-effect-in-quitting\/\" target=\"_blank\">quit the paper<\/a> over a Rauner-related flap) flanked news anchors Allison Rosati and Rob Stafford. Among viewers between 25 and 54, the NBC-owned station finished first from 10 to 11:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Alone among all local stations during prime time \u2014 starting straight up at 7 p.m. \u2014 was <a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com \" target=\"_blank\">WGN-Channel 9,<\/a> with Chris Robling, the Chicago Republican strategist, responsible for some of the night\u2019s most engaging analysis. Energetically anchored by Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre, the Tribune Media station\u2019s local coverage outpaced all the networks in the ratings during the 9 p.m. hour.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here are Nielsen audience averages from 10 to 11:30 p.m. Tuesday:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ABC 7<\/strong> 6.5 rating (226,024 households) 11.7 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NBC 5<\/strong> 6.0 rating (208,638 households) 11.0 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WGN<\/strong> 4.9 rating (170,387 households) 9.2 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CBS 2<\/strong> 3.4 rating (118,228 households) 6.3 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fox 32<\/strong> 1.2 rating (41,727 households) 2.3 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not quite by the landslide margin of previous election nights, WLS-Channel 7 again was the people\u2019s choice for its assured and proficient coverage of Tuesday\u2019s election. Nielsen overnight ratings showed the ABC-owned station leading the market from 10 to 11:30 p.m. when Chicago\u2019s five major players were competing with live local reportage.<\/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\/5582"}],"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=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}