{"id":9761,"date":"2015-12-16T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2015-12-16T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:22:16","slug":"another-anchor-swap-for-good-day-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/12\/16\/another-anchor-swap-for-good-day-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good Day Chicago\u2019 swaps anchors again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Melody<\/a>

<\/a> Melody Mendez<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s musical chairs time again at \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the ever-changing morning show at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Wednesday Melody Mendez announced she\u2019s not renewing her contract as news anchor from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday. The move confirms a report here<\/a> last fall following the departure of the show's former co-anchor, Jon Kelley.<\/p>\n

Effective January 4, Mendez will be reassigned to weekend anchoring and weekday reporting duties three days a week. But that\u2019s just until she leaves Fox 32 for her new job.<\/p>\n

Mendez would not disclose her next destination, but teased Facebook<\/a> fans Wednesday with this message: \u201cShhhhh.... it's a secret (for now)! I have some BIG NEWS to share with you all! I can't give details just yet but am so excited to spill, soon!\u201d<\/p>\n

The New England native and Boston University graduate joined Fox 32 in November 2013 after stops in Denver, Seattle, Champaign, Illinois, and Jackson, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\"Natalie<\/a>

Natalie Bomke<\/p><\/div>\n

Bouncing back to mornings to replace Mendez alongside newcomer George Smith on \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d is Natalie Bomke, who most recently has been anchoring at 9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays with Larry Yellen. Bomke, who grew up in Springfield and graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joined Fox 32 in September 2013 from KRIV-TV in Houston. After about a year on \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d she was moved to weekends.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Yellen has been reassigned <\/a>to full-time reporting duties and soon will be replaced as weekend anchor by Scott Schneider, just hired from WXIX-TV, the Fox affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Still more changes to \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d include the\u00a0hiring<\/a> of Sun-Times <\/a>film critic Richard Roeper as co-host with Corey McPherrin and Darlene Hill, and the hiring <\/a>of meteorologist Mike Caplan, formerly of ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> to succeed Mark Strehl (whose next assignment remains unknown).<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen sweep \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d averaged a 0.9 rating (31,276 households) and 4 share. Among viewers between 25 and 54, it averaged a 0.5 rating and 4 share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s musical chairs time again at \u201cGood Day Chicago,\u201d the ever-changing morning show at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. On Wednesday Melody Mendez announced she\u2019s not renewing her contract as news anchor from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday. The move confirms a report here last fall following the departure of the show's former co-anchor, Jon... 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\/9761"}],"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=9761"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}