signed on <\/a>last April after five years as a CBS News correspondent. Brown will join co-anchor Judy Hsu, meteorologist Tracy Butler and traffic reporter Roz Varon.<\/p>\nIn addition to anchoring with Yu at 7 p.m on The U, Sanders will contribute reports to ABC 7\u2019s 4, 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts and will be heading a new stationwide initiative covering the community, according to Idler.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will truly miss my morning co-anchors; they\u2019ll always be like family to me,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cBut after 20 years of waking up at 2:30 in the morning, the chance to anchor a prime time newscast on WCIU is a wonderful reward for my hard work. Linda Yu and Jim Rose have been great colleagues and friends of mine since I started at the station, so launching this newscast with them along with our new meteorologist Cheryl Scott will be very gratifying.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a groundbreaking partnership between two Chicago television powerhouses, Weigel Broadcasting\u2019s WCIU-Channel 26 will air a one-hour Monday-through-Friday newscast in prime time, to be produced by ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Starting January 12, \u201cABC 7 Eyewitness News on WCIU, The U,\u201d will air from 7 to 8 p.m. weeknights, with veteran news anchors Linda Yu and... 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\/6013"}],"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=6013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}