Posted by PPTV on April 26, 2008 at 19:20:44:
In Reply to: CLTV changes face posted by chicagomedia.org on April 22, 2008 at 09:33:18:
: Two familiar faces soon will be missing from CLTV's prime-time news lineup.
: Leaving the Tribune Co.-owned cable news channel will be evening news anchor Amy Rutledge and meteorologist Keenan Smith.
: Rutledge has resigned to move to Shanghai, China, with her husband, whose company has promoted him. Her last day at CLTV will be May 8.
: The northwest suburban Schaumburg native and Southern Illinois University alum joined CLTV in 2005 from WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tenn.
: News director Jill Manuel said Rutledge will be succeeded as anchor by Sean Lewis, who joined CLTV last year from WWBT-TV in Richmond, Va.
: Smith has been hired as morning and midday forecaster at WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla., starting May 5. A search is on for his replacement here.
: A native of Philadelphia and graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and Princeton University, Smith joined CLTV in 2000 as a reporter and news anchor from WEEK-TV in Peoria.
: He added weekend weather duties in 2001 and shifted to weather full time in 2002. Since 2003, he has been assigned to the WGN Weather Center, which supplies forecasts to CLTV.
: Rutledge also has appeared on Tribune-owned WGN-Channel 9.
Where CLTV is going wrong---
I was out all night and got in real late. I turned on TV just about time for a replay of both the NBC5 and ABC7 newscasts. It was 1:30-ish or so in the morning.
I caught the tail end of BOTH station's coverage on the CTA Cermak-Chinatown crash. I wanted more info.
So I tuned to CLTV. Low and behold, CLTV was in paid programming until LATE in the morning, with not even a scroller at the bottom of the screen with info on this major story.
Worthless.
Maybe this is why CLTV anchors are flying out fast.