{"id":7679,"date":"2015-05-18T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2015-05-18T06:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:11:58","slug":"nbc-5-may-have-top-story-at-10-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/05\/18\/nbc-5-may-have-top-story-at-10-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC 5 may have top story at 10 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Rob Stafford and Allison Rosati<\/p><\/div>\n

With three days to go in the May sweeps, all eyes are on Chicago\u2019s late-news ratings race, where there could be an upset in the works.<\/p>\n

NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> appears poised to overtake the market\u2019s perennial front-runner, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> among viewers between 25 and 54 at 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. That\u2019s a key demographic driving local stations' advertising revenue.<\/p>\n

As of last Friday, NBC 5\u2019s 10 p.m. newscast, anchored by Allison Rosati and Rob Stafford, was averaging a 3.6 percent share of the 25-to-54 audience \u2014 up from 3.1 in April and 2.9 last May. ABC 7\u2019s 10 p.m. newscast, anchored by Kathy Brock and Ron Magers, had a 3.4 share in the demo \u2014 up from 3.3 in April and 3.2 last May.<\/p>\n

Running a distant third is the 10 p.m. newscast on CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2,<\/a> anchored by Kate Sullivan and Rob Johnson, with a 0.9 share \u2014 flat from April and down from 1.1 last May. Despite viewer interest in the final weeks of David Letterman\u2019s \u201cLate Show,\u201d CBS 2 is believed to be among the worst performers among the network\u2019s major market stations.<\/p>\n

Among 9 p.m. newscasts, Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32<\/a> continues its free fall with news anchors Dawn Hasbrouck and Jeff Herndon averaging a 0.9 share \u2014 down from 1.1 in April and 1.3 last May. Tribune Media WGN-Channel 9,<\/a> anchored by Micah Materre and Mark Suppelsa, remains steady with a 1.6 share \u2014 flat from April and up from 1.5 last May.<\/p>\n

As measured by Nielsen Co., the May sweeps began April 23 and run through Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With three days to go in the May sweeps, all eyes are on Chicago\u2019s late-news ratings race, where there could be an upset in the works. NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 appears poised to overtake the market\u2019s perennial front-runner, ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, among viewers between 25 and 54 at 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. That\u2019s a key... 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\/7679"}],"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=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7684,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}