<\/a>Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly (1976)<\/p><\/div>\n
By 1996, 27 years after \"Eyewitness News\" debuted in Chicago, ABC mandated that its stations conform to co-branding with the network. \"It's critical in a cluttered TV environment to have a strong identity,\" Alan Cohen, ABC executive vice president of marketing, told affiliates. \"The time is now to create a packaged look that tells viewers they are watching ABC.\"<\/p>\n
While the \"Eyewitness News\" label survived at ABC stations in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, it vanished overnight in Chicago, where everything was rebranded as \"ABC 7.\"<\/p>\n
But Idler cited a research study commissioned by the station that showed \"Eyewitness News\" never really went away in the public's mind: \"We got a very strong sense that it resonated strongly with the Chicago market,\" he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seventeen years after \"Eyewitness News\" disappeared from Chicago television, it's making a comeback. Just in time for the November sweeps, if all goes as planned, WLS-Channel 7 will go back to branding itself as \"Eyewitness News,\" the station's well-known franchise from 1969 to 1996. \"The reality is ['Eyewitness News'] still has a very strong identity... 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\/731"}],"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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}