View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk Ron Magers Last Night Pulls Big Ratings for WLS By Kevin Eck on May. 26, 2016 - 4:24 PM “Don’t cry because it’s over," Magers quoted from Dr. Seuss. "Smile because it happened.”
View Post ABC Affiliates | CW Affiliates | ShopTalk Chicago Anchor Legend ‘Disappointed’ With WGN By Kevin Eck on Apr. 25, 2016 - 11:26 AM “But for me personally," said Magers. "It’s way over the line. And I’m disappointed."
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk Ron Magers Tells Carol Marin Breaking News Is His Pet Peeve By Kevin Eck on Apr. 21, 2016 - 4:33 PM "If you label everything breaking news, you become that fanatic that clings to the idea until the idea is no good anymore.”
View Post ABC Affiliates | Anchors | Revolving Door Ron Magers Set to Retire From WLS By Kevin Eck on Feb. 5, 2016 - 11:45 AM Robert Feder says "insiders" tell him Magers could retire as early as this summer.
ABC Affiliates | Top 10 Gremlins Plague WLS Broadcast Again By Kevin Eck on Sep. 11, 2012 - 5:16 PM With the Chicago teacher’s strike at the forefront of local news, technical glitches hampered WLS‘ newscast for the second time in weeks, reports Time Out Chicago’s Robert Feder. As local stations competed Sunday ...
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 ...
ABC Affiliates | Top 10 | TV Biz WLS General Manager Emily Barr Tapped to Lead Post-Newsweek Stations By Merrill Knox on May. 9, 2012 - 10:58 AM Emily Barr, who has been president and general manager of WLS since 1997, is leaving the Chicago ABC O&O to lead Post-Newsweek Stations, the television broadcasting division of the Washington Post Company. Barr will join Post- ...
