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Maria Berrelleza to join Noticiero Telemundo Chicago team
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Maria Berrelleza to join Noticiero Telemundo Chicago team

By Reel Chicago Jun 27, 2025
Telemundo Chicago (WSNS-TV) has announced five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Maria Berrelleza will join the station's Noticiero Telemundo Chicago team as an on-air repor...
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Telemundo Chicago hires award-winning journalist Santiago Gallego
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Telemundo Chicago hires award-winning journalist Santiago Gallego

By Reel Chicago Apr 3, 2025
Telemundo Chicago (WSNS-TV) has announced nine-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Santiago Gallego will join the station's Noticiero Telemundo Chicago team as reporter / anc...
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Chuck Goudie joins ‘NBC 5 Investigates’ team
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Chuck Goudie joins ‘NBC 5 Investigates’ team

By Reel Chicago Feb 3, 2025
NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV) has announced nationally-renowned Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist Chuck Goudie will join the station’s ‘NBC 5 Investiga...
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NBC Sports Chicago says farewell with marathon of top historic moments
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NBC Sports Chicago says farewell with marathon of top historic moments

By Reel Chicago Sep 27, 2024
On Sunday, September 29 and Monday, September 30, NBC Sports Chicago – The local television home of Chicago Sports for the past 20 years – will say farewell to vi...
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NBC 5 to stream live coverage of the Chicago Pride Parade
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NBC 5 to stream live coverage of the Chicago Pride Parade

By Reel Chicago Jun 27, 2024
For the first-time ever, NBCUniversal Local Chicago’s 24/7 live streaming channel – NBC 5 Chicago News – will be delivering commercial-free, live streaming coverage of ...
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NBCUniversal Local Chicago to deliver weeklong Draft coverage
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NBCUniversal Local Chicago to deliver weeklong Draft coverage

By Reel Chicago Apr 21, 2024
With one of the most highly-anticipated NFL Drafts in Chicago sports history taking place this week, NBC Sports Chicago, along with NBC 5 Chicago and Telemundo Chicago, will pr...
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NBC 5, Telemundo to host Decision 2024 multiplatform coverage
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NBC 5, Telemundo to host Decision 2024 multiplatform coverage

By Reel Chicago Mar 11, 2024
NBC 5 Chicago and Telemundo Chicago will deliver its most comprehensive, multiplatform election day/night coverage to date surrounding the eagerly-awaited 2024 Illinois Pr...
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Tom Skilling announces retirement after 45 years at WGN
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Tom Skilling announces retirement after 45 years at WGN

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2023
Tom Skilling, the beloved weatherman and enduring presence on Chicago television, has announced his upcoming retirement from WGN after a 45-year career on the air. In a hea...
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‘Homeless Youth: An Invisible Crisis’ tonight on NBC 5 Chicago
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‘Homeless Youth: An Invisible Crisis’ tonight on NBC 5 Chicago

By Reel Chicago Jul 29, 2023
NBC 5 Chicago will be airing a special, one-hour presentation titled Homeless Youth: An Invisible Crisis, featuring real life stories of survival for today’s Chicago you...
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Les Grobstein bobblehead unveiled at National Bobblehead Hall of Fame
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Les Grobstein bobblehead unveiled at National Bobblehead Hall of Fame

By Reel Chicago Mar 11, 2022
The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled a limited-edition official bobblehead to honor longtime Chicago Sports Radio Broadcaster Les Grobstein, who passed away...
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WGN reporter goes on rant chasing down drivers in snow-covered cars
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WGN reporter goes on rant chasing down drivers in snow-covered cars

By Reel Chicago Feb 4, 2022
“Don’t be that guy,” says Erik Runge of WGN. “That’s so dangerous. I don’t understand that at all. It just really aggravates me. It’s just stupid. It drives me nu...
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WLS news legend Joel Daly passes away at 86
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WLS news legend Joel Daly passes away at 86

By Reel Chicago Oct 22, 2020
2020 has taken so many legends from us. Reel Chicago is sad to report that iconic newsman Joel Daly, who spent nearly 40 years at ABC affiliate WLS, died today at around 5:30 ...
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WGN’s Joe Donlon lands Trump interview on NewsNation
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WGN’s Joe Donlon lands Trump interview on NewsNation

By Reel Chicago Sep 21, 2020
Chicago-based NewsNation anchor Joe Donlon will conduct the first comprehensive prime-time sit-down interview with President Trump since the passing of Supreme Court Justi...
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Nexstar’s NewsNation debuts on WGN America
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Nexstar’s NewsNation debuts on WGN America

By Reel Chicago Sep 1, 2020
WGN NewsNation debuts tonight, representing the return of traditional, trusted, fact-based news reporting to cable television. The live daily three hour prime-time national...
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Chicago broadcasting icon Hugh Downs passes at 99
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Chicago broadcasting icon Hugh Downs passes at 99

By Reel Chicago Jul 7, 2020
He was a pioneer of broadcasting whose career would span a century. On July first, we lost 99-year-old TV News legend Hugh Downs. Downs passed away peacefully at his home in Sc...
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WMAQ says no current plans to replace Johnson
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WMAQ says no current plans to replace Johnson

By Reel Chicago Jun 15, 2020
WMAQ-5 says it will not be replacing recently deceased anchor Dick Johnson in the immediate future. Johnson, who was 66, died a week ago while on medical disability leave battl...
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Pam Zekman among those laid off at WBBM CBS-2
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Pam Zekman among those laid off at WBBM CBS-2

By Reel Chicago May 28, 2020
The economic impact of Covid-19 has hit CBS News and its Chicago affiliate WBBM CBS-2 in a big way. After 39 years of delivering award-winning investigative stories, iconic Pam...
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Yes, Anderson Cooper swore at Blagojevich on live CNN
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Yes, Anderson Cooper swore at Blagojevich on live CNN

By Laura Day Feb 24, 2020
When many Americans find themselves at a loss navigating a  constant stream of “fake news," we should be grateful when a reporter like CNN’s Anderson Cooper has well a...
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