Word: wls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST SUMMER, the gossip column in The Chicago Tribune reported that a news director at the city's ABC owned and operated station hall instructed his staff to pay close attention to USA Today for possible stories. The implication was clear: WLS-TV was looking for a new influx of light, superficial stories to bolster its sagging ratings. Several years ago, the station had pioneered the so-called "happy talk" style of local news featuring the likes of the ever-smiling and recently fired Good Morning, America weatherman John Coleman. But the item so angered the news director that...
...seemed a pity to waste that distinguished shock of white hair. So, as long as it did not seem destined to bob around the Oval Office, what better place for it than television? Or so, it seems, thought the folks at WLS-TV, the ABC-owned station in Chicago, when they hired defeated independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson, 59, as a political commentator. Recalling one criticism of his stump performance, the former Illinois Congressman once again pledged an Anderson difference: "I firmly promise that I won't preach." But no sooner did the cameras start to roll than Reverend...