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WGN Anchor Calls German Holiday Market ‘Kristallnacht’

Kevin Eck — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:48:08 +0000

Robert Jordan, anchor for Chicago’s WGN 9 p.m. news, mistakenly referred to the Windy City’s German holiday market as ‘Kristallnacht’ during his Sunday night broadcast.

Kristallnacht was a series of Nazi pogroms, or attacks against Jews, that took place in early November 1938, while the current Chicago holiday market is known as Christkindlmarket.

Tossing to the newscast’s first weather report, Jordan and co-anchor Jackie Bange were talking about the unseasonably warm weather with Jordan saying, “and Chicagoans took advantage of the rare weather today,” he then stumbled as if trying to remember the name of the market viewers were seeing on screen. “Shopping at the…uhm…is that the Kristallnacht center there in Dailey Plaza?”

A number of tweets popped up after the anchor’s flub with viewers asking if they heard what they thought they heard. One such tweet was answered by the station saying, “we reviewed the tape..sounds like a jumble of both. Bob is a student of history, certainly knows the difference. Just a mistake” You can see the screen grab of the tweet after the jump. continued…

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Local Chicago Stations Cover Politics, Protests at NATO Summit

Merrill Knox — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:49 +0000

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&O. Political editor Mike Flannery‘s regular Sunday morning newscast was expanded to an hour this weekend.

On NBC O&O WMAQ, weekday anchors Stefan Holt and Daniella Guzman anchored a special 11 a.m. newscast on Sunday. WMAQ also expanded its 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts, anchored by Allison Rosati and Rob Stafford, to an hour. continued…

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Lester Holt’s Son Set to Join NBC O&O

Andrew Gauthier — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:59:16 +0000

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 is set to join WMAQ as a reporter and weekend morning anchor beginning in June.

“We are happy to bring Stefan home,” Frank Whittaker, WMAQ’s station manager and vice president, said in announcing the move. “He spent most of his childhood growing up in Lincoln Park.”

Lester Holt worked in Chicago for 14 years as an anchor for CBS O&O WBBM in the 80s and 90s.

The Chicago Tribune‘s Phil Rosenthal points out that Stefan is joining other WMAQ staffers with Chicago broadcasting lineage, including Anthony Ponce (the son of Phil Ponce), Lauren Jiggetts (the daughter of Dan Jiggetts), and Christian Farr (the son-in-law of WGN’s Robert Jordan). continued…

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