{"id":96,"date":"2013-07-15T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-09-07T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:58:09","slug":"cbs-2-renews-rob-johnson-as-main-news-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/07\/15\/cbs-2-renews-rob-johnson-as-main-news-anchor\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS 2 renews Rob Johnson as main news anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veteran Chicago newsman Rob Johnson has agreed to a multiyear renewal with CBS 2 to continue as 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekday news anchor. His co-anchor on all three newscasts is Kate Sullivan.<\/p>\n

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Johnson confirmed the extension negotiated between his New York-based agent, Gregg Willinger, and bosses of the CBS-owned station.<\/p>\n

\"My philosophy is to not make my personal business public,\" Johnson told me Sunday. \"But given the multiple inaccuracies that have been reported, I am happy to report that I'm going to sign a multiyear contract with CBS to continue the great work we're doing. And I couldn't be happier.\"<\/p>\n

The move puts to rest a rumor first published by FTVLive.com May 20 that Johnson \"will be leaving the station in the very near future and the hunt for a replacement is on.\" On June 30, ChicagolandRadioandMedia.com wrote: \"Some insiders are saying that the network may be quietly looking for a new lead news anchor, not due to anything Johnson has done wrong, but merely due to WBBM-TV's newscasts' lack of ratings success. Could a new male news anchor be coming to WBBM-TV before fall?\" A third website, NewsBlues.com, chimed in July 1, attributing the rumor to \"Chicagoland Media.\" Johnson said no one contacted him, his agent or the station before the rumors were published.<\/p>\n

Johnson, 45, joined CBS 2 in 2006 as 5 p.m. news anchor and was promoted the following year to 10 p.m. news anchor. He previously worked eight years as weekend news anchor and reporter at ABC 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veteran Chicago newsman Rob Johnson has agreed to a multiyear renewal with CBS 2 to continue as 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekday news anchor. His co-anchor on all three newscasts is Kate Sullivan. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Johnson confirmed the extension negotiated between his New York-based agent, Gregg Willinger, and... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}