partnership agreement<\/a> with the Cubs. The deal calls for ABC 7 to air 24 games a year through 2019.<\/p>\n\"Broadcasting Chicago Cubs baseball on ABC 7 is an exciting moment in our station's history,\u201d John Idler, president and general manager of ABC 7, said in a statement. \u201cWe are thrilled to be a part of this new chapter with the Chicago Cubs organization and are looking forward to kicking off our coverage with the fierce Cubs-Cardinals rivalry.\u201d<\/p>\n
To accommodate the afternoon baseball broadcast, ABC 7 will shift its regular programming to overnights, airing \u201cInside Edition\u201d at 1:05 a.m., the rebroadcast of \"ABC 7 Eyewitness News\" at 1:35 a.m., \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d at 2:10 a.m., \u201cJeopardy!\u201d at 3:10 a.m., and \u201cABC World News Now\u201d at 3:40 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Look for Ron Magers to turn up in the Wrigley Field broadcast booth alongside Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies when WLS-Channel 7 airs its first Cubs game of the season Wednesday. The ABC-owned station\u2019s top news anchor is expected to make a special appearance during the fifth inning of the Cubs matchup against the St.... 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\/7356"}],"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=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}