Kye Martin Joins WMAQ As Traffic Reporter
Kye Martin will be joining NBC-owned WMAQ Chicago as a traffic and transportation reporter effective July 23. Her role will include traffic reports for the weekday morning news at 4:30-7 […]
NBC-owned WMAQ Chicago (DMA 3) announced changes to its weekend anchor lineup today. Anthony Ponce will become co-anchor of the weekend morning newscasts with Kim Vatis. Dick Johnson will add […]
It’s WBBM, WMAQ, WLS At 10 P.M.
NBC-owned WMAQ Chicago today announced anchor changes to its morning and afternoon newscasts, which will become effective on Monday, Feb. 20. Rob Elgas, currently weekday morning anchor, will move to […]
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WMAQ Moves Stefan Holt To Weekend A.M. Anchor
NBC-owned WMAQ Chicago (DMA 3) is expanding its political blog “Ward Room” to a weekly half-hour show, hosted by WMAQ’s political team of Carol Marin and Mary Ann Ahern. It […]
WMAQ, FM Station Testing News Partnership
Nobody knows where it’s headed, but starting this week a news sharing partnership is quietly being tested between Chicago’s NBC-owned WMAQ and Merlin Media’s all-news WIQI-FM. The two are taking a few tentative steps toward an arrangement similar to that between two of Chicago’s CBS-owned stations — WBBM-TV and all-news WBBM-AM.
Daniella Guzman is joining NBC-owned WMAQ Chicago as co-anchor of its weekday morning newscasts starting in March, the station announced today. Guzman joins the station from KPRC Houston where she […]
KPRC’s Daniella Guzman Heading To WMAQ?
Lauren Petty is joining NBC-owned WMAQ Chicago (DMA 3) as a general assignment reporter effective Jan. 30. Petty comes to Chicago from WVIT, the NBC-owned station in Hartford, Conn., where […]
With the return this week of Peabody Award winner Katy Smyser as one of two new investigative producers, NBC’s Chicato O&O WMAQ signaled a renaissance of Unit 5, its once nationally recognized brand for first-rate local reporting.
WMAQ Anchor Zoraida Sambolin Leaving For CNN
NBC O&O WMAQ Chicago’s 10 p.m. newscast won for Outstanding Regional News Story for its coverage of the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal. Denver McGraw-Hill’s ABC affiliate KMGH Denver won the Emmy for Outstanding Regional News Story in the investigative reporting category. The awards were handed out by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
NBC O&O WMAQ Chicago (DMA 3) today announced two new additions to its weather team. Cheryl Scott is joining as the weekend meteorologist and Alicia Roman will be the primary […]
Debra Juarez, who headed the news operation at Fox-owned WFLD Chicago for 12 years, is returning to the Windy City to become news director of NBC-owned WMAQ. Juarez is expected to join the station early next month from New England Cable News, a 24-hour news channel in Boston, where she’s been news director since June 2010.
The NBC O&O’s new half-hour newscast will be anchored by Marion Brooks.
Retired anchor/reporter Art Norman will return to NBC O&O WMAQ Chicago on a part-time basis starting in September. Twice a month, he will return to the station’s 5 p.m. newscast to air his […]
Michelle Relerford will join NBC O&O WMAQ Chicago (DMA 3) as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor effective Sept. 6. Relerford comes to WMAQ from WHDH Boston where she is a weekend anchor […]
NBC-owned WMAQ announced today that Shannon Hammel will be joining the station as assistant news director. She comes from the NBC’s KXAS Dallas where she has been managing editor for the last […]
After 13 years at the top of Chicago’s NBC-owned station, is veteran broadcasting executive Larry Wert moving up or out? As ratings and revenues decline at WMAQ 5 and new owner Comcast Corp. takes a hard look at all of its operations, talk of a management shakeup has moved beyond industry gossip.
