[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Sep 1 2003, 11:50 PM\']
I just think that WBBM needs to get out of the news business all together.
A big 4 network with no news? Yeah, right.
Their newscasts have consistenlty been last.
I'm a stickler for proof, therefore... How do you know this?
The new boss over there wants more news.
This ain't nothing new. Many markets are trying this lame route.
I hope their return to news at 6PM scores lower ratings than Millionaire did. I'm sure it will be the same story as the 10PM News, CH 7 in 1st, Ch 5 in 2nd, then reruns of Friends and the Simpsons, then WBBM.
Again, how do you know this?
I don't know how Millionaire did in the ratings, but I doubt that a newscast will do better.
Then is everything you're saying speculation?
Brandon Brooks[/quote]
An exceprt from today's Chicago Tribune
"It seems like the strategy is working," said Channel 2 General Manager Joe Ahern. That strategy could be roughly defined as "Put Diann Burns on the air." Last year, in a high-profile defection, Burns was hired away from Channel 7 by Ahern to co-anchor with Antonio Mora, and the ratings gains began almost immediately.
Many local television insiders acknowledge that Burns has something to do with Channel 2's late-night gains, but some point out that she has not had the same effect in her 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts--5 p.m. is up by 13 percent,
but 6 p.m. is down 61 percent from last year, when the slot was occupied by "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."I guess Channel 2 should go back to games at 6PM. Its sort of like 1982 when CBS dumped Captain Kangaroo in favor of a morning news show.