{"id":9164,"date":"2015-10-19T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2015-10-19T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:22:26","slug":"richard-roeper-set-to-join-good-day-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/10\/19\/richard-roeper-set-to-join-good-day-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Roeper set to join Fox 32's \u2018Good Day Chicago\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Richard Roeper<\/p><\/div>\n

Richard Roeper, the Sun-Times<\/a> film critic and one of Chicago\u2019s best known journalists, is expected to be named a host of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the Monday-through-Friday morning news show on WFLD-Channel 32,<\/a> sources said.<\/p>\n

It will mark a return to the Fox-owned station for Roeper, who won two Chicago Emmy Awards during seven years as a commentator on \u201cFox Thing in the Morning\u201d and co-host of \u201cThe Media Creatures,\u201d a weekly segment with Chicago Tribune<\/a> columnist Rick Kogan.<\/p>\n

Roeper was among numerous local personalities brought in to tape on-camera auditions with \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d anchors in recent weeks. Among others were Sylvia Perez and Mike Caplan, both formerly of ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> Patti Vasquez of Tribune Media news\/talk WGN AM 720,<\/a> and Susanna Negovan, publisher of Splash.<\/a><\/p>\n

Roeper, 56, is in his 33rd year with the Sun-Times, where he shifted <\/a>from daily columnist to film critic in 2013 following the death of Roger Ebert. The two hosted the nationally syndicated movie-review show \u201cEbert & Roeper\u201d for eight years.<\/p>\n

As the latest personnel move at the low-rated morning show, Roeper's hiring will follow the\u00a0departure<\/a> of Jon Kelley after two years as co-anchor of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d and the arrival of George Smith, former anchor and reporter at WOIO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Cleveland. Corey McPherrin, Darlene Hill and Melody Mendez also host the show, which airs from 4:30 to 10 a.m. weekdays.<\/p>\n

Nielsen averages for September showed Fox 32 tied for last place in mornings with CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2,<\/a> averaging a 1.1 rating (or 38,227 households) from 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays. By the 9 a.m. hour, \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d was dead last by itself with a 0.6 rating (20,851 households) \u2014 down 14 percent from the year before.<\/p>\n

Roeper, who has been contributing movie reviews to \u201cWindy City Live\u201d on a freelance basis, is expected to part company with the ABC 7 morning talk show. He\u2019s expected to continue as a critic for the Sun-Times and a regular guest on Roe Conn\u2019s afternoon show on WGN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Roeper, the Sun-Times film critic and one of Chicago\u2019s best known journalists, is expected to be named a host of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the Monday-through-Friday morning news show on WFLD-Channel 32, sources said. It will mark a return to the Fox-owned station for Roeper, who won two Chicago Emmy Awards during seven years as... 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\/9164"}],"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=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9178,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions\/9178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}