Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's CBS network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington Street in the Loop, and it transmits from atop the Willis Tower.
WBBM may refer to the following broadcast media outlets in the Chicago, Illinois area: WBBM-TV, a television station (digital channel 12 or virtual channel 2) licensed to Chicago and an owned-and-operated affiliate of the CBS Television Network; Any of three radio stations formerly owned by CBS Radio and currently owned by Audacy:
WBBM (780 kHz) – branded Newsradio 780 WBBM – is a commercial all-news AM radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois.Owned by Audacy, Inc., its studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Chicago Loop, while the station's transmitter—diplexed with sister station WSCR—is in the nearby suburb of Bloomingdale.
In 2000, Williams was a finalist to replace Lester Holt as a principal news anchor at WBBM-TV, according to a November 15, 2002 article in the Chicago Sun-Times. Williams left ABC News in June 2001 as part of a companywide downsizing. [1] In late 2001, Williams rejoined WGN-TV as a free-lance, per diem reporter. He remained in that position ...
Sirott married his first wife, Carrie Cochran, in 1981 when she was a news anchor at WBBM-TV. They worked together at WFLD until they separated in 1995 prior to their 1999 divorce. [14] [15] He married newscaster Marianne Murciano in June 1999. [16] Sirott has one daughter and two stepchildren with Murciano, and resides in Wilmette, Illinois.
Bill Kurtis (born William Horton Kuretich; September 21, 1940) is an American television journalist, television producer, narrator, and news anchor.. Kurtis was studying to become a lawyer in the 1960s, when he was asked to fill in on a temporary news assignment at WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas.
He became WBBM's political editor in 1970. In 1971, Jacobson was fired by WBBM-TV, and he moved over to WMAQ for two years. In March 1973, he returned to WBBM as an investigative reporter and anchor, co-anchoring the 10 p.m. news for much of the next 16 years with Bill Kurtis. Kurtis and Jacobson formed a legendary anchor team in Chicago and ...
In July 1976, WBBM demoted Coughlin, who by that point was the station's top weather forecaster, to be a staff announcer and replaced him with part-time actor Tom Alderman, who also had been a public relations professional for then-Illinois Gov. Dan Walker. The station received more than 10,000 letters of protest from viewers, and eventually ...