Chicago Tv News

Anna Davlantes Joins Fox-Owned WFLD After Leaving Channel 5

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Anna Davlantes, who bolted WMAQ-Ch. 5 this summer after nine years, has joined WFLD-Ch. 32 as a contributing anchor and reporter for the Fox-owned sta...

Feder: Where Is The African-American Presence On "Chicago Tonight"?

Vocalo | Robert Feder | Posted 05.25.2011

The idea of a Chicago television news operation without a single African American reporter or anchor on staff seems like a throwback to some other era...

Bill Kurtis, Walter Jacobson Reuniting To Anchor CBS 2 News

CBS 2 | Posted 05.25.2011

For one night only, the legendary CBS 2 news team of Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson will anchor the news this Friday at 10 p.m....

Anna Davlantes Cleared To Find New TV Deal

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

The anchor and reporter who has been off the air since the end of July, when she walked away from NBC-owned WMAQ-Ch. 5 after nine years, has emerged f...

Burleigh Hines Dead: Longtime CBS 2 Reporter Dies At 77

CBS 2 | Jim Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Burleigh Hines, a reporter at Channel 2 for more than 25 years, passed away Sunday morning at age 77. ...

Harry Porterfield Back At CBS 2 After Leaving WLS-Channel 7

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

CHICAGO (AP) -- Longtime Chicago television broadcaster Harry Porterfield will be the 11 a.m. co-anchor and a news reporter on WBBM-TV, the city's CBS...

Anna Davlantes Done At NBC 5

Chicago Sun-Times | LEWIS LAZARE | Posted 05.25.2011

It's official: Weekend co-anchor and general assignment reporter Anna Davlantes has left NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5....

Harry Porterfield, Venerable TV Newsman, Out At WLS-Channel 7

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Anchor and reporter Harry Porterfield, a celebrated Chicago TV fixture for 45 years, the last 24 at WLS-Ch. 7, is leaving the ABC owned-and-operated s...

Bob Sirott Leaves NBC Channel 5 After Contract Clash

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Bob Sirott, long expected to take over Warner Saunders' 10 p.m. anchor chair on WMAQ-Ch. 5, instead is leaving the NBC-owned station three weeks after...

Warner Saunders, Renaissance Man

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

Hermene Hartman

Warner Saunders' career spanned the riots that resulted from Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to having a hunch about a young politician named Barack Obama.

Chicago Television News Stations To Share News And Video Resources

Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Four Chicago television stations are expected later today to announce they soon will be sharing newsgathering resources at general news events, source...

Pedestrian Danger at Museum Campus

Mike Doyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Doyle

I watched a steady stream of parents with kids almost getting hit by cars, and the local alderman, police and news stations did everything but laugh in my face for telling them what I was seeing.

New Main Anchor At Fox Chicago

TV Newser | Posted 05.25.2011

Breaking: Insiders at Chicago's Fox O&O WFLD-TV tell TVNewser that Jeff Goldblatt, Fox News Channel's Chicago-based correspondent, is in the newsroom ...