Re: Harry Porterfield Returns To CBS2 Chicago

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: : Harry Porterfield Returns To CBS 2 Chicago : : Legendary Broadcaster Will Anchor 11AM Newscast; Re-Launch 'Someone You Should Know' Segments : : Aug 3, 2009 9:03 am US/Central : : CHICAGO (CBS) -- Veteran broadcaster Harry Porterfield is returning to CBS 2 Chicago where he began his television news career in 1964. : : Porterfield will reintroduce himself to CBS 2 viewers when he appears on today's 11:00 AM newscast. And, beginning Monday, August 10, he will co-anchor CBS 2 News at 11:00 AM and serve as a news reporter for station broadcasts. : : Described as a gentleman-journalist by his peers, Porterfield has earned the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia journalism award, along with 11 Emmy awards in his 45-year news career, including two features on WBBM-TV: Channel Two: The People and Two-on-Two. : : In returning home to the station where his television career was launched, Porterfield will also continue the franchise he created at CBS 2 in 1977 -- Someone You Should Know, a series of profiles on everyday people who make a difference. : : "Harry has a storied relationship with viewers in Chicago. It is both meaningful and important that the relationship continue," CBS 2 News Director Jeff Kiernan said in making the announcement. : : "We are proud to welcome Harry back to CBS 2. We are excited to have 'Someone You Should Know' return to CBS 2 where it started and having him anchor alongside Roseanne Tellez at 11:00 AM." : : "I am both humbled and thrilled to return home after a 24-year hiatus," Porterfield explained. "Telling stories and reporting the news is what I do and I'm not done yet, even at age 81." : : "My career as a broadcast journalist has allowed me to report on the stories and people that have shaped our world and I'm pleased that the leadership at CBS 2 is affording me an opportunity to continue reporting the stories that are important to the people in and around Chicago." : : Porterfield began his broadcast career as a jazz and gospel radio disc jockey in 1955 in Saginaw, Michigan, after earning a B.S. in chemistry from Eastern Michigan University in 1954. : : His decision to pursue a career in television began at WKNK-TV, where he worked as a stagehand, cameraman and editor until 1964. : : That year, Porterfield accepted a position as a news writer for WBBM-TV and was eventually elevated to reporter and then anchor of the station's 6:00 PM news -- a position he held until accepting a position as feature news reporter and substitute anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago in 1985. While working at WLS-TV, Porterfield earned a law degree from DePaul University in Chicago in 1993. : : After 25 years at WLS-TV, Porterfield's contract expired and he signed-off from the station last Thursday (July 30). : : In 2008, the National Association of Black Journalists awarded Porterfield the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award -- an honor which he shares with former CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley, Black Enterprise publisher Earl Graves and former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw. : : In addition, Porterfield has been the recipient of several awards throughout his 50-plus-year career, including: The Distinguished Journalism Award from the Coalition for United Community Action; The Richard J. Daley Police Medal of Honor; Outstanding Journalist Award from the Chicago Association of Black Journalists; the Studs Turkel Award for Journalism; the Media Fairness Award from PUSH; the Distinguished Service Award from the Gary, Ind. NAACP; the Kimberly Circle Guest of Honor Award from the Hadley School for the Blind; and merit awards from the National Catholic Association and Allied Communications. : : CBS 2 is part of the CBS Television Stations group, a division of CBS Corporation. : This guy is a dinosaur. There have been some talented news people that have been recently let go, and they hire this has been. No wonder CBS 2 is last place in the ratings.

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