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Television sports anchors from Chicago (12 P) Pages in category "Television anchors from Chicago" The following 93 pages are in this category, out of 93 total.
Linda Yu (born December 1, 1946) is a Chinese-American former news anchor and author. Yu is best known as co-anchor on the Eyewitness newscast for WLS-TV in Chicago from April 1984 until November 2016. Yu became Chicago's first Asian–American broadcast journalist when she began her news career in Chicago at WMAQ-TV in 1979.
Cheryl Annette Burton [citation needed] (born December 25, 1962) is an American news anchor who has been working for WLS–TV, an American Broadcasting Company-owned and operated television station in Chicago, Illinois, since 1992. Burton anchors the station's 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscast alongside Ravi Baichwal and Rob Elgas.
Robin Carolle Brantley (born August 4, 1957), known professionally as Robin Robinson, is a longtime Chicago television news anchor best known for her 27 years as main news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-TV in Chicago. She can now be heard on the radio at WBBM (AM) as a fill-in anchor/reporter and WVON as host of her own show, 'Robin's Nest.'
In 2000, Le Mignot became an early morning news anchor at WBBM-TV, a role she held until 2001, when she returned to dayside general assignment reporting duties. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In February 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Le Mignot's contract would not be renewed by WBBM-TV , and she briefly left the station. [ 10 ]
According to a Chicago Sun-Times article dated September 25, 1996, she joined WLS-TV in Chicago as a news reporter and fill-in news anchor. Several months later, Garcia was promoted to co-anchor of WLS' two Sunday morning newscasts, first alongside WLS' John Garcia (no relation) and later next to Beth Spicuzza and then Dick Johnson .
She held both these posts until the reporter and community activist Vicente Serrano, then the main anchor, was fired and she was named solo anchor of the 10 p.m. news for Telemundo Chicago. In 2010 Félix hosted "The Feminine Edge: You Don't Have to be One of the 'Boys' to Succeed" at The Executives' Club of Chicago [ 4 ]
Carlson has received five local Emmy Awards (two for her work as a traffic reporter and three for her coverage of the Chicago Marathon), an Edward R. Murrow Award for "Best News Feature," and the Chicagoland Achievement in Radio Award for "Best News Reporter." [5] In 2001, she was a media witness at the execution of Timothy McVeigh. [5]