Posted by Tallyho on September 22, 2010 at 11:39:47:
Tribune Co.-owned WGN-Channel 9 is getting back into the weekend morning news business.
Channel 9 announced Tuesday that it will air an hourlong newscast at 6 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, starting the weekend of Oct. 2. Public-affairs and paid-religion programming and infomercials now airing at that hour will move to earlier time slots.
The move marks a comeback for weekend morning news, which first began airing on the station in 1992. Channel 9�s Sunday morning news was canceled in 1994, and the Saturday morning news was canceled in 1998. �We�re a news company and a lot of us have felt deficient not having a weekend morning show,� news director Greg Caputo told Rosenthal. �I know the station tried it several years ago. I don�t know what happened to it, but it obviously went away.�
Anchoring the newscasts solo will be Sean Lewis, who joined Channel 9 in June 2008 after 15 months at cable news sister station CLTV. The Kenosha, Wis., native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin previously was a weekend news anchor and reporter at WWBT-TV in Richmond, Va.
Mike Hamernik will serve as meteorologist.