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"WGN Morning News" Expanding To Six Hours?

WLS 7 moving 'Windy City Live' to 11am will hurt that show leading to it's cancellation, even though 'Windy City Live' currently leads its 9am time slot. WPVI had 'AM Live' and it led the 10am slot, but national push of carrying 'The View' and moving Rosie's popular syndicated show from 11am to 10am trumped it. Now in Chicago, it's 'Live with Kelly and Michael' trumping 'Windy City Live'

Since then, ABC/WPVI could have resurrected 'AM Live' esp. after WCAU dropped 10! from 10am, instead of carrying CBS's Rachael Ray. KGO also lost it's local show 'The View from the Bay' but that was an afternoon show in a market where people are likely outdoors more often, or speak Spanish.

In any case, it seems ABC would rather just have the national shows than local AM shows, even if the local AM shows on it's ABC O&Os can do really well, and lead the local timeslot in ratings.
 
In Boston, Fox-owned WFXT-25 runs a six-hour morning news show from 4 to 10 A.M. on weekday mornings.

Plus CHCH-11 in Hamilton, Ontario runs news for most of the daytime hours.
 
...In Los Angeles, Tribune's KTLA/v5 takes its morning news block from 4:00 to 10:00 AM, consistently beating the network offerings and Fox O&O KTTV/11's own local six-hour news block from 4:30 to 10:30...
 
Evne a few years later isn't that too much news, but Windy City Live has not been canceled and now just recently moved it back to 2 more hours to bring back its 11:00 A.M newscast which they did a shortened newscast before Windy City Live started, but I believe they still had them online only.
 
They don't.
Because syndication is dying, and many companies see newscasts as cheaper than clearing syndicated shows for years, or clearing talk shows for a broadcast season, only to find out it gets cancelled a year later. I don't like this new trend of extended news either, and I hope those anchors get their overtime paychecks.
 
That somehow became a trend. I mean do you really need news starting as early as 4 AM? I guess there are people that up at that godly early hour, I know that went Oprah Winfrey retired from doing her talk show, WLS 7 Chicago opted to replace her show with a local talk show that is Windy City Live that at first happened at 9:00 A.M. until live with Kelly and Michael moved from WGN TV t our ANC local station. But couldn't WGN TV couldn't they have done maybe a local talk show or found some other show they could have put on expect for another hour of news. I don't know how many news anchors are putting in a lot of overtime, like WGN TV to my knowedgle when their news team is different that comes in and is on the air at 4:00 and they do the first 2 hours, and then their main news team does the rest of the 4 hours. And then the news team changes for the 11:00 AM and Noon shows, and then changes again for the 4 PM newscast, and that same team does the Nine and 10 PM news and the 10 PM newscast is the last of the day for WGN TV, and it better stay that way. And it did seem odvoius at the time, that when Rachael Ray's talk show used to air at 10 A.M. that if they did lose her show, (which eventually) they did that they would replace her show with another hour of news which they didn't. Even I guess they needed an hour break from the news. While you are saying syndication is dying, but some of the syndicated talk shows are still going strong like Steve Harvey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Kelly Ripa's morning talk show is still going strong, and yes they are looking for a new co-host for her talk show, which this one will hopefully not leave before her and maybe last 10 seasons together.
 
And just one other thing how do you know that they don't change news teams, if WGN TV news team came on and stayed on all day, that means they wouldn't get done for the day or week until after the 10 PM newscast, and on days between Mondays and Thursdays, if the 4 AM team did all day long, and got off after the 10 PM news cast, then they would only get to go home and only get a few hours of much needed sleep before gearing up for the next day's morning news expect for Fridays. And I would think that a lot of people that have to do morning tv or even radio would have to go to go to bed in the early evening hours to be able to get up in the god early hours to do their own tv or radio shifts, expect for of course Brant Miller.
 
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