<\/a>Jerry Taft<\/p><\/div>\n
Scott, 29, joins an experienced weather team at ABC 7 headed by chief meteorologist Jerry Taft and including Tracy Butler, Mike Caplan and Phil Schwarz. Taft, who is a 30-year veteran of the station, recently signed a two-year contract extension that runs through July 2016.<\/p>\n
In an interview, Taft, 71, said his bosses have never discussed retirement with him and kept him in the dark about Scott until word of her hiring broke here. In fact, he still doesn\u2019t know how she\u2019ll be deployed at the outset. But without my asking, he said he would welcome Scott to the station wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s inevitable that decisions like this are made, and it\u2019s one that I would probably make if I were the manager,\u201d Taft said. \u201cI thought Cheryl was very good at Channel 5 and I think she\u2019ll do an excellent job here. It\u2019s a smart move for us. I have no hard feeling about any of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acknowledging his new colleague\u2019s telegenic qualities, Taft added: \u201cYou could say now I\u2019ll be the second<\/em> best looking weather person here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three months after she delivered her farewell forecast on WMAQ-Channel 5, Cheryl Scott is back on the radar and about to make her debut on WLS-Channel 7. The ABC-owned station is expected to announce Monday that Scott has been signed as a full-time meteorologist and will begin working before the end of the year, sources... 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\/5938"}],"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=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}