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WMAQ-TV. / 41.878917°N 87.636167°W / 41.878917; -87.636167. WMAQ-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Telemundo station WSNS-TV (channel 44); it is also sister to ...
Education. B.A. in Journalism from Columbia College and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Occupation. Television journalist/Author. Years active. 1989-present. Anita Padilla is an American television journalist best known as an anchor/reporter and works on stories that impact the lives of Chicagoans. She is the recipient of two Emmys.
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.
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.
In March 1989, Sirott returned to Chicago's airwaves at WMAQ-TV as a noon news anchor and program host; the following year, he launched and was the co-anchor of WMAQ-TV's First Thing in the Morning along with Allison Rosati. After four years at WMAQ, he was fired in July 1993—for the first time in his career—after he and management had a ...
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] In May 2013, Sambolin announced that she had breast cancer and got a double mastectomy on May 28, 2013.
Amy Jacobson is a Chicago broadcaster who is currently a talk radio host with WIND.She was a reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago from 1996 to 2007, losing her job after a rival TV station broadcast a video of her in a bathing suit with her children at the home of a man she was investigating in connection with his wife's disappearance.
In 1971, Weigel returned to Chicago as a college football writer for the Chicago Daily News. In 1975, Weigel began filing reports for WMAQ-AM and several months later became a sports anchor for WMAQ-TV. In 1977, Weigel joined WLS-TV in Chicago. During his long tenure at the ABC affiliate, Weigel became known for his packaged bloopers which he ...