WGN Chicago Promotes Gaynor Hall To Weekend Anchor

Nexstar-owned WGN Chicago has named general assignment reporter Gaynor Hall anchor of WGN Saturday Morning News and WGN Sunday Morning News, alongside co-anchor Sean Lewis, beginning Saturday, Sept. 18.

The live weekend morning newscast which runs 7-10 a.m. Saturdays and 7-9 a.m. Sundays, features the latest news, weather with meteorologist Tim Joyce, sports and other Chicago happenings.

Hall replaces Tonya Francisco, who now hosts Daytime Chicago, WGN’s lifestyle show airing weekdays at 10 a.m.

“Gaynor is an outstanding reporter who is tenacious, driven and knowledgeable,” said Dominick Stasi, WGN news director. “She will be a huge asset to our WGN Weekend Morning News, bringing her unique perspective to the stories of the day.”

Emmy-Award winning Hall joined WGN as a freelance reporter April of 2008, as a general assignment reporter for the WGN Evening News and the WGN News at Nine.

She graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University, with a double major in broadcast journalism and African American studies.

Hall got her start in television as the morning anchor and producer at WMGT Macon, Ga. She returned to Chicago in April 2006 as an anchor and reporter for WGN’s sister cable news channel CLTV.