WBBM-TV Chicago - Channel 2 News Sales Presentation (1983)

[@ericsamuelson5656]

At the time, star anchor Bill Kurtis was on the CBS Morning News with Diane Sawyer. Bill will return to WBBM by 1985.

[@TheInternetToaster]

Surprised nobody noted the station's announcer in the sales presentation video.. The one and only Ron Rolland. He was the voice of WBBM CBS 2 for most of the '80s. He went on to be the voice of WLS ABC 7 from 1992 until 2007. Fun fact: Ron Rolland was the last "station talent announcer" in Chicago (and possibly one of the last in the country for a local TV station). All the way to the end at ABC 7, he was contracted and paid as actual talent at the station. The decision to eliminate him was actually from ABC corporate level as they didn't want their station paying for an in-house talent announcer anymore and they wanted WLS to go with a regular contracted or per-diem voiceover (they went with Roger Rose as his replacement at the time). Ron Rolland passed away September of last year.

[@zbsx]

Yes, Pam Zekman is still there.

[@stevieboy247]

That's what I thought. Thanks!

[@johnnyballenatl]

stevieboy247 Not anymore (she was among the handful of CBS O&O staffers who were recently laid off)!

[@stevieboy247]

@@johnnyballenatl I have that mentioned in the video description.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Do you still have news music today?

[@brettaxelson6163]

So what happened?

[@craigmarlowe1734]

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