Scott Warren

Scott Warren, who was replaced after eight months as executive producer of The Weather Channel’s morning show, is taking charge of Chicago’s lowest-rated evening newscast.

WFLD-Channel 32 announced the hiring Thursday of Warren as executive producer of the Fox-owned station’s 9 p.m. newscast, starting December 17. He replaces Rehan “Ray” Aslam, who exited last week after nine years as a producer there.

Anchored by Jeff Herndon and Dawn Hasbrouck, Fox 32’s 9 p.m. newscast finished dead last in November among all local late-news programs, with a 1.6 Nielsen rating (66,078 households) — down 6 percent from the previous year.

In addition to his stint at The Weather Channel, which ended last October, Warren’s resume includes 11 positions in the last 14 years. Among them were executive producer jobs at KNTV-TV, the NBC-owned station in San Francisco, KTLA-TV, the Tribune Media station in Los Angeles, KTVU-TV, the Fox-owned station in San Francisco, and KTVT-TV, the CBS-owned station in Dallas. He also was managing editor at Yahoo!

Warren is the second producer from The Weather Channel to join a Chicago station in recent months. In August, WLS-Channel 7 hired Jesse Hamilton, who headed prime-time hours at the Atlanta-based network, as executive producer of the ABC-owned station's morning newscast.