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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.
Amy Jacobson. Amy Jacobson is a Chicago radio talk show host. She was a reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago from 1996 to 2007, losing her job after a rival TV station broadcast a video of her in a bathing suit with her children at the home of a man she was investigating in connection with his wife's disappearance. [1]
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]
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.
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 ...
Walter David Jacobson (born July 28, 1937) is a former Chicago television news personality and a current Chicago radio news personality. He currently provides opinion segments for WGN Radio AM 720. From 2010 until 2013, he was an anchor of the 6 p.m. news on WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he also had worked from 1973 until 1993.
Morgan Holt. . (m. 2012) . Children. 3. Father. Lester Holt. Stefan Holt (born c. 1986/1987) [1] is an American journalist and television news anchor for WMAQ-TV —the Chicago owned-and-operated station of NBC. He anchors alongside Marion Brooks and Allison Rosati for the 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. news programs for the station.
Waukegan, Illinois, U.S. Education. B.A. in Journalism from Columbia College and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Occupation. Television journalist/Author. Years active. 1989-present. Anita Padilla is an American television journalist best known as an anchor/reporter and works on stories that impact the lives of Chicagoans.