Felicia Middlebrooks (born May 29, 1957) is an American radio news broadcaster. She was the morning-drive news anchor of WBBM Newsradio in Chicago, Illinois, along with Pat Cassidy. Their morning show was rated No. 1 in the morning daypart in Chicago. [1] Middlebrooks has announced she is leaving WBBM effective May 29, 2020 to work at her own company, Saltshaker Productions. [2] [3]
Felicia Middlebrooks was born in Gary, Indiana. She graduated from West Side High School and Purdue University Calumet earning a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications in 1982 and an MBA in 2014, where she also takes on the role as a professor for broadcast news. She worked as a steelworker in northwest Indiana to finance her undergrad education. Her previous radio stations were WBAA, WJOB, WGVE, and WLTH before coming to Chicago. Felicia broke barriers in 1984 when she became the first woman and first African American in the nation to co-anchor mornings for CBS Radio. [4] She has won numerous awards for leadership and reporting (domestic and global) including the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in News, the Associated Press “Best Reporter Award” and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists/Chicago Headline Club. [5] Middlebrooks is Principal of Saltshaker Productions LLC, with offices in Chicago and Los Angeles. Her first documentary film, “Somebody’s Child: The Redemption of Rwanda” won first place for “Best Documentary Short” in the 2005 New York International Film & Video Festival. Felicia is also a published author. She founded the non-profit "Hollywood Comes to Chicago" to help aspiring young screenwriters in the Midwest. She serves on the Board of Directors for three non-profit organizations: “Hands of Hope”, “WINGS: Women in Need Growing Stronger”, and “Children’s Home and Aid Society” (CHASI). [6]
Here is a list of the news co-anchors who have worked with Felicia Middlebrooks since she started in 1984:
A partial list of books of which Middlebrooks was an author:
Margaret Jane Pauley is an American television host, and author, active in news reporting since 1972. Pauley first became widely known as Barbara Walters's successor on the NBC morning show Today, beginning at the age of 25, where she was a co-anchor from 1976 to 1989, at first with Tom Brokaw, and later with Bryant Gumbel; for a short while in the late 1980s she and Gumbel worked with Deborah Norville. In 1989, with her job apparently threatened with Norville's addition to the program, she asked to be let out of her contract, and her request was granted. Her next regular anchor position was at the network's newsmagazine Dateline NBC from 1992 to 2003, where she teamed with Stone Phillips.
Bill Kurtis is an American television journalist, television producer, narrator, and news anchor. He was also the host of a number of A&E crime and news documentary shows, including Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files. Previously, he anchored The CBS Morning News, and was the longtime anchor at WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned and -operated TV station in Chicago. Kurtis is currently the scorekeeper/announcer for National Public Radio (NPR)'s news comedy/quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, as well as serving as the host of Through the Decades, a documentary-style news magazine seen on CBS/Weigel Broadcasting's digital multicast network, Decades syndicated subchannel.
WBBM-TV, virtual channel 2, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS. WBBM-TV's studios are located on West Washington Street in the Loop district, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower.
WCBS is a radio station licensed to New York City and is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. WCBS's studios are located in the combined Audacy facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood of lower Manhattan and its transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx. Its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada.
Loreley "Lee" June Phillip Bell was an American talk show host and soap opera creator. During her career on Chicago television, she hosted over 10,000 programs and, early in her tenure, worked five shows a day, seven days a week. She went on to co-create two of American television's longest-running soap operas.
WBBM – branded WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9 FM – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Audacy, Inc., its studios are located at Two Prudential Plaza in the Chicago Loop, while the station transmitter—diplexed with sister station WSCR—resides in the nearby suburb of Bloomingdale.
All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news.
WCFS-FM – branded WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9 FM – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Elmwood Park, Illinois. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station services the Chicago metropolitan area operating as a full-time simulcast of WBBM.
Kate Sullivan is an American television show host, producer, and television news anchor. Sullivan was a co-anchor of the evening news for WBBM-TV in Chicago with Rob Johnson from September 2010 to September 2015. Sullivan won several awards, including an Emmy Award and the Associated Press First Place Award for Breaking News. She also anchored the morning and noon news at WCBS-TV in New York (2006–2010).
Carol Marin is a television and print journalist based in Chicago, Illinois.
Nick Young is an American broadcast journalist now retired from CBS News. Young is former anchor of the morning CBS World News Roundup on the CBS Radio Network. He was born Nicholas Yeazel.
Ed Crane has been reporting on radio and television since 1979. He has been an anchor for the CBS radio and television networks and was also an anchor for the network's AM flagship in New York City, WCBS.
Megan Linnea Glaros is an American meteorologist. She was formerly the weekday morning meteorologist for WBBM-TV in Chicago. She was formerly the weekend meteorologist for WCBS-TV in New York, as well as an entertainment reporter.
Phil Ponce is an American journalist and television presenter. Ponce is notable as a Chicago television journalist who hosts Chicago Tonight, a nightly television magazine of news and culture on WTTW 11.
Pat Harvey is an American broadcast journalist. She joined KCAL 9 in Los Angeles in 1989, and in 2010 began co-anchoring for KCAL sister station KCBS news at 5 & 11PM. She is the longest-running anchor in prime time at one station in Los Angeles. For her 20th anniversary, the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared Oct. 30, 2009, Pat Harvey Day. In June, 2015 Harvey received the LA Area Emmy's Governor's Award. In 2012, Pat was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Robin Carolle Brantley, known professionally as Robin Robinson, is a longtime Chicago television news anchor best known for her 27 years as main news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-TV in Chicago. She can now be heard on the radio at WBBM (AM) as a fill-in anchor/reporter and WVON as host of her own show, 'Robin's Nest.'
Suzanne Le Mignot is a television news anchor and reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago.
Dawn Stensland Mendte is an American television talk show host and news anchor working at WJLP-TV and WPHT, Entercom in Philadelphia. Stensland-Mendte was also host of CBS Saturday Morning. Stensland-Mendte has anchored the news at TV stations across the country including WBBM-TV in Chicago, KYW-TV and WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio.
Susan Carlson was a newscast co-anchor for WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
Cisco Cotto is a radio personality, serving as an anchor and reporter on WBBM 780/105.9, and serves as a pastor at Village Bible Church in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
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