Chuck Pollard (with mucho help from Mary) kicks off 2011 with a winner!!Floyd Kalber was this week's mystery man.
Born in Nebraska....he shifted from radio to television in the early '50's.
Mentored Tom Brokaw in Tom's early days.....
started at NBC 5 in Chicago....then to New York on the Today Show.....
retired and then ABC 7 brought him out of retirement for another 14 years.
Surprisingly was always the #1 top rated news program for all of those 14 years.
Died in 2004 at age 79 from emphysema.
Click on the link below.....news from 1967 looks a lot different.
(but still funny that weatherman always miss the snow....
watch Harry Volkman apologize...only a few weeks after the BIG '67 snow!)
http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/23feb1967/index.html
Marty
Sandusky, OH
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