<\/a>WGN<\/p><\/div>\n
The move marks the latest expansion at WGN, which currently airs 61 hours of live local news each week. On weekdays it includes a six-hour morning news show from 4 to 10 a.m., midday news from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., another block from 4 to 6 p.m. and the hourlong primetime \u201cWGN News at Nine.\u201d All are bona fide ratings successes.<\/p>\n
Until WGN becomes a 24-hour local news operation, there's still room to grow.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I see an opportunity in the marketplace where I think we can be a good competitor, we\u2019re going to expand our news when it makes sense,\u201d Easterly said. \u201cI think it makes sense now.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI\u2019m very proud of our team. There\u2019s a lot of energy in the newsroom, and they\u2019re working hard to earn the trust of viewers every day. They know our future is doing local programming. We\u2019re excited that we\u2019ve done so well where we\u2019ve expanded up to this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Long Chicago\u2019s television news leader at 9 p.m., WGN-Channel 9 will expand its late news to 10 p.m. this fall, the Tribune Media station announced Tuesday. Starting October 5, WGN will add a 30-minute newscast at 10 p.m., to be anchored by the 9 p.m. team of Mark Suppelsa, Micah Materre, meteorologist Tom Skilling and... 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\/8552"}],"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=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}