{"id":8889,"date":"2015-09-17T21:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T02:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2015-09-17T22:12:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T03:12:23","slug":"good-day-ends-for-jon-kelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/09\/17\/good-day-ends-for-jon-kelley\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good Day\u2019 ends for Jon Kelley"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jon<\/a>

<\/a> Jon Kelley<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s over and out for Jon Kelley after two unhappy years as co-anchor of the low-rated \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to thank Jon for his many contributions to 'Good Day' and wish him much success in his future endeavors,\u201d Dennis Welsh, vice president and general manager of Fox 32, said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

Kelley, 50, was a sports anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> in the 1990s and later worked for the syndicated magazine show \u201cExtra\u201d and Fox Sports Network. He returned to Chicago in a wave of new hires<\/a> at Fox 32 in 2013 from KNTV-TV, the NBC station in San Francisco, where he\u2019d been morning anchor.<\/p>\n

Within a year, Kelley was bumped to earlier hours, co-anchoring with newcomer Melody Mendez from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Replacing them from 7 to 10 a.m. were Fox 32 veterans Corey McPherrin and Darlene Hill.<\/p>\n

\"I have decided it's time for me to embark on a new adventure,\u201d Kelley said Thursday. \u201cI want to thank Fox 32 for supporting me in achieving this goal.\"<\/p>\n

\u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d has been a colossal failure in the ratings with a revolving door of executive producers in recent years. The latest to take over is Dan Salamone, former news director of CBS affiliate WOIO-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WUAB-TV in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing the ratings in this time period is a big challenge and very important to the company,\u201d Salamone said when he was hired<\/a>\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>

George Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

On Thursday Fox 32 announced it had hired George Smith, a former anchor and reporter at Salamone\u2019s last station, starting October 12. He is expected to succeed Kelley. Smith, who\u2019d worked at WOIO since 2013, was not renewed last May. He previously was a reporter for ESPN in Chicago and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Speculation about changes to \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d were fueled by Salamone\u2019s hiring and by the appearance twice in recent weeks of Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper at the station, where he taped tryouts for an undisclosed role on the morning show.<\/p>\n

TVSpy <\/a>and TVNewsCheck<\/a> reported that Kelley would be leaving Fox 32 on December 1.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s over and out for Jon Kelley after two unhappy years as co-anchor of the low-rated \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d on Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. \u201cWe want to thank Jon for his many contributions to 'Good Day' and wish him much success in his future endeavors,\u201d Dennis Welsh, vice president and general manager of Fox 32, said... 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\/8889"}],"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=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}