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In 1975, Chicago-based jingle composer Dick Marx wrote a theme music piece for WBBM-TV's newscasts that was based on the song "Chicago" (or "This is my City, Chicago's My Town"), a folk song written by Chicago folk singer Tary Rebenar. The popular theme, known as "Channel 2 News", and several variations on it would be used by WBBM for nearly a ...
Mary-Catherine Elizabeth Sullivan [1] is an American television show host, producer, and television news anchor. She was a co-anchor of the evening news for WBBM-TV in Chicago with Rob Johnson from September 2010 to September 2015. She also anchored the morning and noon news at WCBS-TV in New York (2006–2010).
This is a list of full-service television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter W. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., WOCV-CD, W16DQ-D and WIFR-LD—have not been included.
In 1982, McLogan joined WCBS-TV in New York as a reporter. In 1984, she became a correspondent for NBC News, where she worked for the next five years and reported for The NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and NBC Sportsworld. In 1989, she joined WBBM-TV in Chicago as a reporter.
McPherrin was on hand for the epic 16 inning long sixth game of the 1986 National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and Houston Astros (which was broadcast on ABC). Although the Astros wound up being eliminated following their 7-6 loss to the Mets in Game 6, Astros' ace pitcher Mike Scott was still named the NLCS' Most ...
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.'
WBBM (AM), a radio station (780 AM) licensed to Chicago that broadcasts an all-news format and is affiliated with CBS News Radio; WBBM-FM, a radio station (96.3 FM) licensed to Chicago and broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format; WCFS-FM, a radio station (105.9 FM) licensed to the Chicago suburb of Elmwood Park, Illinois that simulcasts ...
WBBM adopted its current all-news format on May 6, 1968 (after co-owned WCBS in New York City switched to all news in 1967 and KNX in Los Angeles made the change in the spring of 1968). [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The station was the flagship station of the Chicago Bears from 2000 through 2022, and in its history has also aired Chicago White Sox baseball ...