{"id":8257,"date":"2015-07-21T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8257"},"modified":"2015-07-21T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T01:45:11","slug":"abc-7-moves-news-to-play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/21\/abc-7-moves-news-to-play-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7 moves news to play ball"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Great<\/a>

<\/a> Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati<\/p><\/div>\n

In the tug of war between baseball and news at WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> baseball just won.<\/p>\n

The second game of Wednesday\u2019s day-night doubleheader between the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds will air on the ABC-owned station starting at 5 p.m., bumping the top-rated 5 and 6 p.m. local newscasts as well as \u201cABC World News Tonight\u201d at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"Chicago<\/a>

Chicago Cubs on ABC 7<\/p><\/div>\n

Viewers looking for news at those times will be directed to the station\u2019s digital and over-the-air Channel 7.2 or to its website.<\/a> News also will be on Comcast Channel 217, RCN Channel 618, Charter Channels 608 or 196, and Mediacom Channels 723 or 102.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t supposed to be this way. When ABC 7 announced <\/a>its 24-game schedule of Cubs broadcasts for the first year of its four-year deal, Wednesday was to have been a single game at 11 a.m. But when the Cubs\u2019 April 25 game at Cincinnati was postponed because of rain, it was rescheduled to July 22 as part of a doubleheader at Great American Ball Park.<\/p>\n

Asked whether a baseball broadcast has ever bumped the station\u2019s local and network news on a weekday, an ABC 7 spokeswoman stopped short of calling it unprecedented. \u201cMost likely we\u2019ve preempted our newscasts for live events in the past,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the tug of war between baseball and news at WLS-Channel 7, baseball just won. The second game of Wednesday\u2019s day-night doubleheader between the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds will air on the ABC-owned station starting at 5 p.m., bumping the top-rated 5 and 6 p.m. local newscasts as well as \u201cABC World News... 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\/8257"}],"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=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8260,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions\/8260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}