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Author:  polster [ Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Ryan Baker jumping to CBS 2
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Ryan Baker, who has been a sports anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 since 2003, is jumping to CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2.

Starting April 14, he will anchor sports for Channel 2's weekday morning newscast and report for other newscasts on the station.


http://www.suntimes.com/business/feder/ ... 8b.article

Baker is better than Jim Rose and more 'authentic' in his tone than the 70s mustache guy at channel 2.. so I have no bad words for him.. he is excercising his options to maximize earnings as a worker in the free market,
Author:  Beardown [ Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:46 pm ]
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I wonder if this means Paula Farris gets the lead anchor job at NBC 5. I'm pretty sure that would make her the first women in Chicago to be lead sports anchor.

Or maybe they go get somebody from another market. You know Peggy and Adamle won't get it.

They should give it to Paula. She's easy on the eyes and actually knows sports. She really is solid. She'll get the majority of guys watching her sports cast at 10:20. I'm pretty sure of that.
Author:  BD [ Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:50 pm ]
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If I'm thinking of the right guy.....

Is Ryan Baker the brother of Lovie Smith ?
Author:  Killer V [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:08 am ]
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I thought Baker was just OK. I never saw much of any emotion or personality in his reports. For lack of a better term, as a broadcaster, he was pretty vanilla.
Author:  My Coach Vinny [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:52 am ]
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Beardown wrote:
She'll get the majority of guys watching her sports cast at 10:20. I'm pretty sure of that.


Only if she conducts it dressed in suggestive clothing sitting on a hood of a classic custom painted Camaro or Corvette. Think Whitesnake video.
Author:  Coast2Coast [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:07 am ]
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Who is he? More to the point, who watches local sports? Aren't their ratings lower than the food channel? In a population of over 8 million in the Chicago area, the nightly news and sports from all the stations combined gets less than 10% of the audience. Less than one in ten of us is watching any of the local garbage. I wouldn't know Ryan Baker from Ryan Simmons. :wink:

From Chicago Magazine:
In May 1988, for example, approximately 1.3 million Chicago-area households were tuning in each night to the 10 p.m. newscasts of Chicago's three network affiliates (WBBM, WLS, and WMAQ), according to an analysis of Nielsen data from that period. Nowadays there is a fourth ten-o'clock local newscast, that of Fox-Channel 32. Last May, the four stations' combined viewership for the ten-o'clock news came to 799,000 households—a 38-percent decline from the May 1988 total.
Author:  Colonel Angus [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:17 pm ]
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I hope Jeff Blanzy follows him.
Author:  Killer V [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:30 pm ]
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Coast2Coast wrote:
Who is he? More to the point, who watches local sports?


I watch NBC 5 hoping to get the teaming of a Ginger Zee with a Paula Faris. I'm pretty sure they talk too, but I really don't know what they say.
Author:  Beef Rockmore [ Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:27 pm ]
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While I don't think Mark Malone, that guy with the freaky balding hair on Channel 9, Rich King, the kid that just riched puberty on Channel 9, Blanzy, Jim Rose, Adamle, Cheverini, Jill Carlson, Peggy Kusinski or Ryan Baker are that great - who do you think should replace them? Bruce Wolf was pretty brutal if you ask me too. He seemed like it was 'beneath' him to be a TV sports anchor.

I think Waddle could handle a M-F sports anchor position with NO problem whatsoever.

Channel 2 or 9 to me is like going to an Aurora cable access show.

Channel 5's sports coverage is an out and out joke. Revolving hosts with Peggy Kusinski, Ryan Baker, Mike Adamle and Paula Farris are admissable at best.

Channels 32 and 7 are the only one's worth watching to me, and part of the reason is that the sports anchors (Giangreco / McPherrin) are strong.
Author:  Beef Rockmore [ Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:29 pm ]
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Channel 2 is SUCH an afterthought to me, I couldn't even remember who 'backed' up Mark Malone.

Howard Sudberry and his oddly undersized teeth and Megan Mawicke.

Keep them too...
Author:  EG Greg [ Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:28 pm ]
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Killer V wrote:
Coast2Coast wrote:
Who is he? More to the point, who watches local sports?


I watch NBC 5 hoping to get the teaming of a Ginger Zee with a Paula Faris. I'm pretty sure they talk too, but I really don't know what they say.



The perfect night is Anna Davlantes anchoring, Lauren Jiggets as the lead reporter on the biggest story of the night, Ginger Zee on weather and Paula Ferris on sports. Thats by far the best local talent show in Chicago.
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