WGN Morning News (1994)

Genre

news

Country

United States

Length

8 seasons, 11 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

3.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a weekday morning news program from Chicago that mixes typical news, weather, and traffic with a lot of jokes and pranks. The anchors act more casual and playful than other local newscasts. Early segments are more serious, but later hours have a fun and silly tone.

relaxedplayfulhumorouslightheartedcheerfulrambunctiousinformaleasygoing

What happens

The WGN Morning News is an American morning television news program airing on WGN-TV (channel 9), a CW owned-and-operated television station and former national superstation in Chicago, Illinois owned by Nexstar Media Group. The program is broadcast each weekday from 4:00 to 10:00 a.m. Central Time; weekend editions (under the title WGN Weekend Morning News) are broadcast on Saturdays from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. and Sundays from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. Central Time. The program is formatted as a newscast with a somewhat less serious tone than WGN-TV's other local news programs and is known for its fun and rambunctious nature, with the anchors and reporters often shown more relaxed on-air, often pulling on-air pranks and practical jokes. The 4:00–6:00 a.m. portion of the newscast is more staid in tone to some extent and is a more generalized news/weather/sports/traffic format, while the 6:00–10:00 a.m. portion incorporates feature segments, interviews and includes some humorous elements. Following a previous attempt that ran from 1991 to 1998, WGN-TV expanded its morning newscasts to weekends in August 2014, originally maintaining a one-hour format (running from 6:00 to 7:00 a.m.), similar in structure to the station's midday and evening newscasts with a general news/weather/sports format, although utilizing a single-anchor format. The weekend editions were eventually expanded to three hours on Saturdays (from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m.) and two hours on Sundays (from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m.) on the weekend of September 10–11, 2016, and switching to a two-anchor format (with original anchor Sean Lewis and meteorologist Mike Hammernik being joined by longtime assignment reporter Tonya Francisco as co-anchor) in alignment with the station's other newscasts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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