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Sambolin is of Puerto Rican descent. [1][2][3][4] Most recently, [5] Sambolin was the host of Early Start on CNN. Sambolin is a native of Chicago and anchored news broadcasts for local affiliates WMAQ-TV (NBC) as well as WSNS-TV for nine years. In January 2013, it was announced that Sambolin was engaged to baseball executive Kenny Williams. [6]
George Polk Award. duPont-Columbia University Award. Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is a former American journalist and television news anchor. He was a correspondent for NBC Nightly News starting in 1993, before his promotion to anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in 2004.
The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ; it was the fourth television station to sign on in Chicago. [1] [3] It was also the third of NBC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to begin operations, after WNBC-TV in New York City and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and before WKYC in Cleveland and KNBC in Los Angeles.
By 1973, WLS' Eyewitness News broadcasts surpassed NBC-owned WMAQ-TV (channel 5)'s newscasts to become Chicago's top-rated news operation, a lead it held until WBBM-TV surpassed channel 7 for the top spot in 1979. For much of the 1970s and 1980s, it waged a spirited battle for second place in the Chicago news ratings between its two main ...
Meet the Press, NBC Nightly News, and special breaking news reports use movements from "The Mission" by John Williams as their themes. [92] The composition was first used by NBC in 1985 and was updated in 2004. [93] "Scherzo for Today," the third movement, was in use by Today until 2013, when it was replaced by a new theme by Alan Gubman. [92]
We have excellent news for fans of NBC’s #OneChicago franchise, and excellent-ish news for fans of its Law & Order series. The network announced on Thursday that it has handed renewals to ...
In 1995 she began anchoring the afternoon news, and in May 1997, following the controversial hiring of Jerry Springer as commentator and the resignations of Ron Magers and Carol Marin, Rosati was promoted to co-anchor of NBC 5's 10 p.m. newscast, making her as a longest-reigning tenured late-evening news anchor in Chicago.
Kristen Welker (born July 1, 1976 [1]) is an American television journalist working for NBC News.She serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C., [2] and served as co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today, alongside Peter Alexander from 2020 to 2023.