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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.
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 ...
Joel Daly. Brian Davis (sportscaster) Anna Davlantes. Merri Dee. John Drury (television anchor) Lourdes Duarte. Maurice DuBois.
Linda Yu. 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.
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.
1965–2016. Relatives. Paul Magers. Ron Magers (born August 27, 1944) is a former American news anchor. Magers worked for WLS-TV, the ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago, Illinois, where he co-anchored the top-rated 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. broadcasts with Cheryl Burton and Kathy Brock, respectively. Magers is the brother of Paul Magers ...
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.
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]