View Post Mornings | NBC Affiliates | Top 10 After 2 Years at CNN, Zoraida Sambolin Rejoins WMAQ By Merrill Knox on Apr. 23, 2014 - 10:50 AM After two years at CNN, Zoraida Sambolin is returning to her old station — WMAQ in Chicago — as the co-anchor of the morning newscast. “We are delighted that Zoraida will be returning to our newsroom,” WMAQ station ...
View Post Anchors | NBC Affiliates | Top 10 Lester Holt to Join Son Stefan at WMAQ Anchor Desk: ‘I have to be on my A-game’ By Merrill Knox on Nov. 21, 2012 - 2:21 PM WMAQ anchor Stefan Holt is teaming up with his father, NBC News anchor Lester Holt, on the NBC O&O’s noon newscast Friday. “I asked him: You’re not working on Thanksgiving are you?” Lester Holt told the station ...
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 ...
Anchors | NBC Affiliates | Top 10 Chicago’s WMAQ Shuffles Weekend Anchor Lineup By Merrill Knox on Apr. 25, 2012 - 2:35 PM WMAQ, the NBC O&O in Chicago, has announced a shake-up to its weekend anchor lineup beginning next month. Anthony Ponce has officially been named weekend morning co-anchor. Ponce has been filling in alongside Kim Vatis since S ...
Anchors | Mornings | NBC Affiliates | Top 10 Stefan Holt Moves to Weekday Mornings at WMAQ By Merrill Knox on Feb. 14, 2012 - 10:32 AM WMAQ‘s Stefan Holt has been named weekday morning anchor at the NBC O&O, Time Out Chicago’s Robert Feder reports. Holt, who currently anchors the weekend morning newscasts, is the son of NBC News anchor Lester Holt ...
On the Move On the Move, 11/17/11 By Andrew Gauthier on Nov. 17, 2011 - 5:12 AM Anne Craig joins WTNH in New Haven, CT as weekend anchor and reporter, from reporter at WNYW in New York. Lucy Noland joins KNBC in Los Angeles, anchoring the station’s midday and 5 p.m. newscasts during the week. Ken Barlow ...
NBC Affiliates | Top 10 Lester Holt’s Son Set to Join NBC O&O By Andrew Gauthier on May. 9, 2011 - 11:59 AM Stefan Holt, the son of NBC’s Lester Holt, is returning to the city where he grew up and joining Chicago’s WMAQ, an NBC O&O. The junior Holt has been a reporter-anchor for WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL since 2009. He ...