“Chicago Tonight,” which has aired at 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday, for 38 years, will no longer follow “PBS NewsHour,” which airs at 6 p.m. Instead, the news program will move to 10 p.m., and be cut down from an hour to 30 minutes.
John Callaway tapes his last episode of"Chicago Tonight" on June 23, 1999, at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago.
The show was born in historic times. WTTW covered the election of Harold Washington as the city’s first Black mayor. The station’s premier journalist and brain trust, John Callaway, interviewed Washington for “Chicago Tonight’s” 1984 premiere. You can’t blame WTTW for changing. Like every legacy news operation, its audience is aging. At 10 p.m., “Chicago Tonight” will no longer benefit from its lead-in, “PBS NewsHour,” which airs at 6 p.m. But the “NewsHour” audience is older.
The co-anchors, Brandis Friedman and Paris Schutz, and the rest of the on-air staff are decades younger than Callaway was when he retired from the show in 1999. WTTW will be running after the same shrinking audience the city’s five other major broadcast outlets are chasing. “Chicago Tonight” will face steep competition at a time when broadcast audiences are shrinking, and more and more viewers, including me, are consuming our news on our cellphones and laptops.“A large majority of U.S. adults say they often or sometimes get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet, including 49% who say they do so often.
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