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Merri Dee. Mary Francine Dorham, or Merri Dee (October 30, 1936 – March 16, 2022), was an American philanthropist and television journalist. Dee was best known for her work as an anchor/reporter at Chicago television station and national cable superstation WGN-TV (Channel 9) from 1972 to 1983, and director of community relations from 1983 to ...
Joel Daly. Brian Davis (sportscaster) Anna Davlantes. Merri Dee. John Drury (television anchor) Lourdes Duarte. Maurice DuBois.
1988–2021. Allison Payne (February 12, 1964 – September 1, 2021) was a nine-time Emmy Award winner, a 21-year anchorwoman with WGN-TV, a veteran international journalist, a popular public speaker, and an actively involved community builder. [1] She was a longtime anchor and reporter at CW affiliate and cable superstation WGN-TV in Chicago ...
Joel Daly. Joel Daly (August 21, 1934 – October 22, 2020) [1] was an American news anchor, most known for serving as an anchor for WLS-TV (an ABC -affiliate) in Chicago, Illinois, for 38 years from 1967 to 2005. Daly served as co-anchor on the 4 pm news broadcast alongside Linda Yu from January 1985 until his retirement in May 2005.
Flynn worked in Chicago from 1941 until his death at a hospital there from internal hemorrhaging in 1983 at age 67. [3] From 1953 to 1968, he was an anchor for WBBM-TV. He then joined Joel Daly as co-anchor at WLS-TV, and by 1971 the pair had become Chicago's highest-rated broadcasting team, [1] retaining the lead in Chicago news ratings ...
Bob Petty. Robert Petty (November 26, 1940 – February 18, 2020) was an American television reporter and news anchor who spent nearly his entire career at Chicago 's WLS-TV, retiring after 31 years with the station in 2002. Petty was born in Memphis, Tennessee. After graduating from Arizona State University in 1970, he became a general ...
Drury at WLS-TV c. 1977. John Richard Drury (January 4, 1927 – November 25, 2007) was an American television news anchor from Chicago, Illinois. Drury is most known for serving as anchor on Chicago news broadcasts which included: WGN-TV from 1967 to 1970 and again from 1979 until 1984; WLS-TV from 1970 to 1979 and 1984 until his retirement in ...
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.