{"id":8421,"date":"2015-08-05T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2015-08-05T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:04:08","slug":"good-day-chicago-turns-to-cleveland-news-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/08\/05\/good-day-chicago-turns-to-cleveland-news-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good Day Chicago\u2019 turns to Cleveland news veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dan<\/a>

<\/a> Dan Salamone<\/p><\/div>\n

Dan Salamone, a former news director from Cleveland, has been named executive producer of \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting August 17, he\u2019ll oversee the perennially low-rated newscast, which airs from 4:30 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday. The show\u2019s current anchors are Corey McPherrin, Darlene Hill, Jon Kelley and Melody Mendez.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing the ratings in this time period is a big challenge and very important to the company,\u201d Salamone told friends on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cI'm ready to dig in and help the entire team produce newscasts that will have the Windy City talking!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Good<\/a>

Good Day Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d has had a revolving door of executive producers in recent years. Jennifer Vander Sanden, who held the job until last May, recently joined Noreen Heron & Associates,<\/a> the Chicago-based public relations firm, as vice president.<\/p>\n

Salamone surprised Cleveland media when he stepped down<\/a> last January after nine years as news director at CBS affiliate WOIO-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WUAB-TV. His departure shortly followed the retirement<\/a> of Bill Applegate after 13 years as general manager of the two Raycom Media stations.<\/p>\n

Reputed to be an innovative news manager, Salamone attracted national attention in 2012 when he used puppets on the air to re-enact testimony from the corruption trial of a county commissioner after cameras had been barred from the courtroom.<\/p>\n

A native of Hudson, Massachusetts and a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Salamone previously doubled as station manager and news director at KOIN-TV, the CBS affiliate in Portland, Oregon, and KRQE, the CBS affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He also was news director at ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV in Detroit and NBC affiliate WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

His move here reunites Salamone with Fox 32 news director Tom Doerr, who worked with him as a consultant at the station in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

Jill Manuel, assistant news director at Fox 32, competed against Salamone as news director of ABC affiliate WEWS-TV in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Salamone, a former news director from Cleveland, has been named executive producer of \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. Starting August 17, he\u2019ll oversee the perennially low-rated newscast, which airs from 4:30 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday. The show\u2019s current anchors are Corey McPherrin, Darlene Hill, Jon Kelley and Melody Mendez.<\/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\/8421"}],"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=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8434,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}