View Post ABC Affiliates WLS Pays Tribute to Linda Yu By Kevin Eck on Nov. 21, 2016 - 10:40 AM This is a smart woman and I didn't know until I hired her how much of a hard worker she was," said Peter Jacobus former news director at KGO in San Francisco.
View Post ABC Affiliates | Anchors | Revolving Door Linda Yu Leaving WLS, Anchor Changes Announced By Kevin Eck on Sep. 6, 2016 - 3:50 PM Yu has co-anchored the station's 4 p.m.newscast since she started there in 1984.
View Post ABC Affiliates | Anchors WLS Makes Anchor Change on WCIU Newscast By Kevin Eck on Mar. 29, 2016 - 5:39 PM Yu started at WLS in 1984.
View Post ABC Affiliates | Top 10 WLS to Produce Newscast for WCIU By Kevin Eck on Dec. 16, 2014 - 1:33 PM Chicago ABC owned station WLS is going to produce a 7:00 p.m. newscast airing on Weigel Broadcasting’s WCIU starting January 12, 2015. The live hour long newscast will air Monday through Friday. WLS’ Hosea Sanders and ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | Anchors | Top 10 WLS Sends Injured Anchor ‘Get Well Wishes’ By Kevin Eck on Jan. 10, 2014 - 3:18 PM During yesterday’s 4:00 p.m. news on Chicago’s WLS, Linda Yu’s co-anchor Alan Krashesky updated viewers on Yu’s condition. “We did talk to her this afternoon. She’s in good spirits,” said ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | Anchors | Top 10 Chicago Anchor Recovering from Accident By Kevin Eck on Jan. 9, 2014 - 11:54 AM WLS is giving anchor Linda Yu time to recover from surgery. According to Chicago media writer Robert Feder, the anchor for the ABC owned station may have been involved in a motorcycle accident. Feder writes Yu “was out of to ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | Top 10 Sylvia Perez No Longer with WLS By Kevin Eck on Jun. 24, 2013 - 2:02 PM TVSpy has confirmed 11:00am anchor Sylvia Perez is no longer with WLS. Perez had been with the ABC owned Chicago station for 24 years. She was the co-anchor of the 11:00am news and the station’s medical reporter. Last week ...
View Post ShopTalk WLS Adds ‘Live With Kelly and Michael,’ Drops 11 a.m. Newscast By Merrill Knox on Jun. 20, 2013 - 5:32 PM WLS, the ABC O&O in Chicago, is dropping its 11 a.m. newscast after more than 20 years this fall, according to Chicago media reporter Robert Feder. The cancellation is because WLS has acquired the syndicated “Live With K ...
Politics | Reporting | Top 10 Local Chicago Stations Cover Politics, Protests at NATO Summit By Merrill Knox on May. 21, 2012 - 2:33 PM Chicago stations were in overdrive this weekend covering the ongoing NATO Summit, which continues today at McCormick Place. WFLD‘s Bob Sirrot and Robin Robinson co-anchored an hour-long newscast at 5 p.m. Sunday on the Fox O ...