{"id":6937,"date":"2015-02-25T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2015-02-25T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:13:32","slug":"anchors-away-wheres-nbc-5s-rob-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/02\/25\/anchors-away-wheres-nbc-5s-rob-stafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchor\u2019s away: Where\u2019s Rob Stafford?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Dick Johnson and Allison Rosati<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s unusual enough for a television news anchor to be missing in action during the February sweeps. But to be off the grid for election night coverage is practically against the law.<\/p>\n

Rob Stafford was nowhere to be seen Tuesday during coverage of Chicago\u2019s mayoral election on WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> which\u00a0was anchored by Allison Rosati and Dick Johnson.<\/p>\n

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Rob Stafford<\/p><\/div>\n

Except for one night, Stafford has been absent since February 9 from the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekday newscasts he co-anchors with Rosati, according to a spokeswoman for the NBC-owned station.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur puppy went one way. My ankle went the other,\u201d Stafford wrote on Facebook<\/a> February 15, explaining the injury that resulted in several broken bones and two surgeries on his ankle. He\u2019s still at home recovering.<\/p>\n

Stafford, 56, did turn up on the air one night last week \u2014 which proved to be too soon. \u201cI overestimated my ability to bounce back from ankle surgery,\u201d he wrote. \u201cApparently I'm not 25 anymore. Or 35, 45, 55 etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman said Stafford is expected back this week, although no date has been set for his return. \"He's taking it one day at a time,\" she said.<\/p>\n

A former Chicago-based correspondent for \u201cDateline NBC,\u201d Stafford joined NBC 5 in 2007 and was promoted to main anchor in 2009. He previously worked as a general assignment reporter at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s unusual enough for a television news anchor to be missing in action during the February sweeps. But to be off the grid for election night coverage is practically against the law. Rob Stafford was nowhere to be seen Tuesday during coverage of Chicago\u2019s mayoral election on WMAQ-Channel 5, which\u00a0was anchored by Allison Rosati 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\/6937"}],"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=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}