{"id":9478,"date":"2015-11-20T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9478"},"modified":"2015-11-20T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T01:21:09","slug":"weatherman-mike-caplan-joins-good-day-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/11\/20\/weatherman-mike-caplan-joins-good-day-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherman Mike Caplan joins \u2018Good Day Chicago\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mike<\/a>

<\/a> Mike Caplan<\/p><\/div>\n

Mike Caplan, former meteorologist at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, <\/a>has been hired as Monday-through-Friday morning weatherman at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.<\/a><\/p>\n

Caplan will join the cast of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the low-rated morning show airing from 4:30 to 10 a.m. weekdays, according to an announcement to staff Friday by Fox 32 bosses.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>

Mark Strehl<\/p><\/div>\n

Meteorologist Mark Strehl, the 11-year veteran Caplan will be replacing on the show, may be reassigned at Fox 32.<\/p>\n

Last January Caplan was released <\/a>after 21 years at ABC 7, shortly after the station added <\/a>meteorologist Cheryl Scott to its weather staff. He most recently had handled weekday afternoon and fill-in forecasting duties.<\/p>\n

Caplan was among numerous local personalities reported here<\/a> to have taped on-camera auditions with \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d anchors in recent months. His hiring closely follows that of Sun-Times<\/a> film critic Richard Roeper, who signed on as a co-host of the show October 26.<\/p>\n

Also new to the show are news anchor George Smith and executive producer Dan Salamone, both formerly of CBS affiliate WOIO-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WUAB-TV in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Caplan, a north suburban native and graduate of Illinois State University, joined ABC 7 in 1994 from WTVD-TV, the ABC-owned station in Raleigh\/Durham, North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Caplan, former meteorologist at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, has been hired as Monday-through-Friday morning weatherman at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. Caplan will join the cast of \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the low-rated morning show airing from 4:30 to 10 a.m. weekdays, according to an announcement to staff Friday by Fox 32 bosses.<\/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\/9478"}],"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=9478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}