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This category is for current and former Chicago television news anchors. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. M.
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.
In 2000, she received a second Emmy for her role in a New Year's Eve Millennium celebration piece while at WMAQ Channel 5 in Chicago. She has reported on many high-profile stories in Chicago, including exclusive interviews with Betty Loren-Maltese on the day of her racketeering conviction and again when she was sentenced to eight years in ...
On December 13, 2013 Sambolin signed off from Early Start stating the primary reason was for her children and to be closer to family in the Chicago area. On April 23, 2014 it was announced that Sambolin would be rejoining WMAQ as co-anchor of NBC 5 news Today and will co-anchor alongside Stefan Holt. She began May 22, and left in October, 2021.
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 Allison Rosati for the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news programs on this station, after he replacing Rob Stafford who was retired on December 23, 2022.
Warner Saunders (January 30, 1935, Chicago, Illinois – October 9, 2018, Chicago, Illinois) was a 10 PM news co-anchor for WMAQ-TV in Chicago.Saunders' primary co-anchor in the NBC 5 evening newscasts was Allison Rosati.
In 1989, she was the local co-host of The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon alongside Barry Lillis. She first came to WMAQ in Chicago in 1990 as host of First Thing in the Morning. During her morning tenure, Rosati co-hosted Chicago Live along with Warner Saunders from 1991 to 1992.
On September 23, 2007, Stafford joined WMAQ-TV/NBC5 Chicago as a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter. [5] "I wanted this job and asked for it," Stafford told the Chicago Sun-Times after being hired by WMAQ. [6] He moved to the main anchor position in July 2009 and anchored the station's 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 10 p.m. newscasts.