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WFLD (channel 32) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is owned and operated by the Fox network through its Fox Television Stations ...
Jacobson joined WFLD in 1993 as the station's principal male news anchor, co-anchoring the station's signature 9 p.m. newscast with Robin Robinson. At WFLD, Jacobson was the most popular of the station's news personalities, such as Robin Robinson, Tamron Hall, Byron Harlan, Nancy Pender and Corey McPherrin.
The broadcasting arm of Field Enterprises began in January 1966 with the initial sign-on of WFLD. On May 26, 1972, Field sold a majority ownership (about 77.5 percent) of WFLD-TV to Oakland, California–based Kaiser Broadcasting; in turn, Kaiser sold a 22.5 percent minority stake in their station group to Field. [1]
Robinson co-anchored WFLD's late local news with Bob Sirott. She has won numerous local Emmy awards for her work. [3] She also has appeared on multiple episodes of Fox's The Chicago Code as a Fox Chicago reporter alongside Bob Sirott. In November 2013, Robinson stepped down as weeknight anchor of WFLD's 9PM newscast after 26 years. She was ...
WPWR-TV (channel 50), branded as Fox Chicago Plus, is a television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States.It is one of two commercial television stations in the Chicago market to be licensed in Indiana (alongside WJYS [channel 62] in Hammond).
A native of Markham, Illinois, McPherrin graduated from Hillcrest High School in Country Club Hills, Illinois.He then earned a bachelor's degree in radio and television from Butler University in Indianapolis, where he was president of Butler's chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity and where he participated on the school's swim team and worked on Butler's radio station, WAJC.
Sirott married his first wife, Carrie Cochran, in 1981 when she was a news anchor at WBBM-TV. They worked together at WFLD until they separated in 1995 prior to their 1999 divorce. [14] [15] He married newscaster Marianne Murciano in June 1999. [16] Sirott has one daughter and two stepchildren with Murciano, and resides in Wilmette, Illinois.
The final WFLD episode (#1311) was broadcast July 27, 1973; one month later, The BJ & Dirty Dragon Show (now in a new setting of "Carefree Corners") began a one-year run on WGN. [10] Meanwhile, Jackson began commuting between Chicago and New York, where he produced and hosted another local show, BJ's Bunch, featuring many of the same characters.