<\/a>Tom Skilling<\/p><\/div>\n
Tribune Media WGN also came in for harsh criticism for overriding the Los Angeles Dodgers-Chicago Cubs game June 22 to accommodate Skilling\u2019s nonstop tornado coverage. Angry baseball fans exploded on Twitter and kept up their beefing on sports\/talk radio the next day.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways first and foremost, WGN-TV is in the business of informing and helping viewers,\u201d said Greg Easterly, president and general manager of WGN. \u201cThe situation involved unpredictable and dangerous storms that were producing tornadoes. It is always critical that we get vital information to viewers in harm\u2019s way as fast as possible and, on this occasion, it meant breaking into programming to provide viewers with the latest information.\u201d<\/p>\n
Added Easterly: \u201cThe competitive nature of the business aside . . . to us it is really about putting the safety of the viewing public first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Monday night, WMAQ-Channel 5 preempted \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d for Brant Miller\u2019s coverage of storms 100 miles west of Chicago. One week earlier, WGN-Channel 9 repeatedly interrupted a Cubs baseball broadcast for Tom Skilling\u2019s updates on tornadoes in the area. Decisions to break into regularly scheduled programming can be costly to stations in terms of... 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\/8060"}],"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=8060"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8070,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions\/8070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}