{"id":7122,"date":"2015-03-09T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:00:11","slug":"wgn-moves-anna-davlantes-to-afternoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/03\/09\/wgn-moves-anna-davlantes-to-afternoons\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN moves Anna Davlantes to afternoons"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Anna<\/a>

<\/a> Anna Davlantes<\/p><\/div>\n

Five months after joining WGN AM 720 <\/a>as a full-time contributor,<\/a> Anna Davlantes is shifting from Steve Cochran\u2019s morning show to Roe Conn\u2019s afternoon show.<\/p>\n

The former Chicago television news anchor will hold forth with Conn from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, starting March 16, according to Todd Manley, vice president of content and programming at the Tribune Media news\/talk station.<\/p>\n

\"It's been amazing to be part of the \u2018Steve Cochran Show\u2019 and the WGN team,\u201d Davlantes said in a statement Monday. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to setting the alarm a tad bit later, and joining Roe in afternoons, helping him build on what's already been a great start at WGN. Many thanks to Larry Wert, Jimmy deCastro and Todd Manley for this opportunity.\"<\/p>\n

Davlantes, a Chicago native and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism graduate, spent nine years as a reporter and weekend news anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5,<\/a> followed by four years as a news anchor and host of \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. <\/a>She left Fox 32 in October 2013 to pursue other projects.<\/p>\n

Conn has been in the market for a sidekick since he started on WGN January 26. Besides Davlantes, others who sat in with him included Sylvia Perez, another former Chicago television news anchor, and Amy Guth, host of WGN\u2019s weekend \u201cRedEye Remix\u201d and general manager\/publisher of RedEye Chicago and the website Metromix.<\/p>\n

\"Roe<\/a>

Roe Conn and Steve Cochran<\/p><\/div>\n

At Cumulus Media news\/talk WLS AM 890, <\/a>where he spent 25 years on the air, Conn worked with four co-hosts, including Richard Roeper, Cisco Cotto, Bill Leff and Garry Meier.<\/p>\n

Conn said he welcomed the addition of Davlantes to his afternoon ensemble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known Anna personally and professionally for a long time,\u201d he said. \u201cI'm a huge fan and really lucky the circumstances were right for her to be available for us in the afternoons. Between Anna, [news anchor] Judy Pielach, [sports reporter] Connor McKnight and [traffic reporter] Esmeralda Leon \u2014 not to mention a surprise or two yet to come \u2014 we're building a dream team. I feel like Theo Epstein with better luck and maybe better hair. . . . OK, not better hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since she joined WGN last October, Davlantes has been responsible for delivering \u201cThe Big Story\u201d \u2014 90-second reports on trending topics drawn from social media \u2014 at the bottom of each hour during Cochran\u2019s show. Those duties are expected to be assumed by morning news anchor Andrea Darlas.<\/p>\n

\"Anna and I have been friends for years, which says how lucky I am and raises questions about her taste,\u201d Cochran said. \u201cI love<\/em> having her with me every morning, but to stay with us and take her next step in TV she needs to join Roe, and with that she can focus even more on her favorite job, being a great mom to her daughter, Gabby.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, WGN tied for 20th in afternoons with a 2.3 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 271,700. The survey included only three days of Conn\u2019s show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five months after joining WGN AM 720 as a full-time contributor, Anna Davlantes is shifting from Steve Cochran\u2019s morning show to Roe Conn\u2019s afternoon show. The former Chicago television news anchor will hold forth with Conn from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, starting March 16, according to Todd Manley, vice president of content... 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\/7122"}],"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=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}