{"id":9054,"date":"2015-10-06T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:49:25","slug":"wgn-beats-cbs-2-in-10-p-m-news-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/06\/wgn-beats-cbs-2-in-10-p-m-news-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"WGN beats CBS 2 in 10 p.m. news debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9056\" style=\"width: 896px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/06\/wgn-beats-cbs-2-in-10-p-m-news-debut\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9056\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9056\" alt=\"WGN (Photo: Museum of Broadcast Communications)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-camera.jpg\" width=\"886\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-camera.jpg 886w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-camera-300x237.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-camera-150x118.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-camera-400x316.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-camera-800x633.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-camera-200x158.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> WGN (Photo: Museum of Broadcast Communications)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This means war: For the first time in 35 years, Chicago has a genuine four-way battle for nightly news viewers straight up at 10 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<p>Monday marked an auspicious debut for <a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com \" target=\"_blank\">WGN-Channel 9\u2019s <\/a>half-hour newscast at 10 p.m., a return to competition the Tribune Media flagship station relinquished in 1980.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Opening night saw WGN finishing third in the ratings behind ABC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WLS-Channel 7 <\/a>and NBC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com \" target=\"_blank\">WMAQ-Channel 5.<\/a> CBS-owned<a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com \" target=\"_blank\"> WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> trailed in fourth place.\u00a0WGN also beat CBS 2 in all key demographics at 10 p.m., including adults between 25 and 54, adults between 35 and 54, and women between 25 and 54.<\/p>\n<p>As<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2015\/10\/05\/robservations-skilling-drops-midday-weather-forecasts\/\" target=\"_blank\"> advertised,<\/a> superstar weatherman Tom Skilling occupied center stage in the new 10 p.m. showcase with a forecast that took up a substantial part of the newscast\u2019s first segment. News anchors Mark Suppelsa and Micah Materre were genial and professional, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>WGN\u2019s long-established one-hour newscast at 9 p.m. continued its customary dominance over Fox-owned<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\" target=\"_blank\"> WFLD-Channel 32.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are Nielsen ratings and shares for all television households at 10 p.m. Monday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ABC 7:<\/strong> 7.1 rating; 12.0 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NBC 5:<\/strong> 6.2 rating; 10.5 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WGN<\/strong>: 2.9 rating; 4.9 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CBS 2:<\/strong> 2.5 rating; 4.3 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Here are Nielsen ratings and shares for 25-to-54 viewers at 10 p.m. Monday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ABC 7:<\/strong> 2.8 rating; 7.2 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NBC 5:<\/strong> 2.8 rating; 7.2 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WGN:<\/strong> 1.6 rating; 4.0 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CBS 2:<\/strong> 0.7 rating; 1.9 share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>One rating point represents 34,752 households; share is percent of sets in use.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Devotion to Accuracy Department: Fox 32 aired a 10 p.m. newscast, \"The Ten,\" from April 2007 to September 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9055\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9055\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9055\" alt=\"Mark Suppelsa, Dan Roan, Tom Skilling and Micah Materre\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News-1024x646.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News-1024x646.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News-300x189.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News-150x94.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News-400x252.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News-800x504.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News-200x126.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/WGN-News.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Suppelsa, Dan Roan, Tom Skilling and Micah Materre<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This means war: For the first time in 35 years, Chicago has a genuine four-way battle for nightly news viewers straight up at 10 o\u2019clock. Monday marked an auspicious debut for WGN-Channel 9\u2019s half-hour newscast at 10 p.m., a return to competition the Tribune Media flagship station relinquished in 1980.<\/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\/9054"}],"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=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9062,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}