Posted by chicagomedia.org on June 22, 2009 at 22:56:11:
Originally posted: June 22, 2009
Jeff Blanzy signs off after 11 years as WLS-Ch. 7 sportscaster
Sportscaster Jeff Blanzy signed off Sunday after 11 years at WLS-Ch. 7 as sports reporter and weekend sports anchor with the expiration of his contract.
The ABC-owned station, Chicago's market leader but not immune to industry-wide budget issues, is reducing its sportscasting corps from four to three -- Mark Giangreco, Jim Rose and Ryan Chiaverini -- a move first reported under consideration at WLS last year.
Blanzy, 48, joined WLS from ABC-owned WTVG-TV in Toledo, Ohio. Before that, he worked at WLIO-TV, the NBC affiliate in Lima, Ohio.
A Michigan native who earned a communications degree from New York's Niagara University while on a basketball scholarship, Blanzy later attended Michigan's Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts and was inducted into the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts Hall of Fame in 2005.
(Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune)