William Charles Beutel was an American television reporter, journalist, and anchor.
17 Facts About Bill Beutel
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Bill Beutel was best known for working over four decades with the American Broadcasting Company, spending much of that time anchoring Eyewitness News for WABC-TV in New York City.
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Bill Beutel was an ABC radio network newscaster before ABC Radio split into four networks on January 1,1968.
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Bill Beutel's first broadcasting job was for WGAR in Cleveland, then joined WEWS-TV as a news editor and anchor in July 1959.
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Bill Beutel moved to New York City in January 1960 as a newscaster for WCBS, the flagship for CBS Radio.
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Bill Beutel moved to ABC on October 22,1962 as a reporter with ABC News and as anchor at the network's New York flagship, WABC-TV.
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Bill Beutel wanted Beutel to return to New York as co-anchor alongside Roger Grimsby, whom Primo hired away from KGO-TV to serve as WABC-TV's main anchor.
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Bill Beutel rejoined WABC-TV on September 28,1970 as Grimsby's co-anchor on Eyewitness News.
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On January 6,1975, Bill Beutel was reassigned by ABC News and became the co-host of a new morning show called AM America.
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Bill Beutel returned to WABC-TV and Eyewitness News, though he maintained a presence on the network as the anchor of its 15-minute late newscasts on Saturday and Sunday nights through the late 1970s.
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The reformed Grimsby-Bill Beutel team kept Eyewitness News on top of the ratings through the middle 1980s, when it briefly fell to last place.
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In 1990 Bill Beutel began a long stint anchoring the 6 pm news alone, which ended when his 11 pm co-anchor Diana Williams joined him in 1999.
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Bill Beutel returned to the 11 pm Eyewitness News in 1989 after Ernie Anastos left to join WCBS and was originally paired with then-longtime co-anchor Kaity Tong.
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Bill Beutel remained the longest-serving anchor at an English-language station in New York City until April 2011, when he was surpassed by WNBC's Chuck Scarborough.
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Bill Beutel married actress Lynn Deerfield, twenty years his junior, in 1975 but the marriage was brief, as was Beutel's third marriage, in 1977, which only lasted four months.
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In 1980, Bill Beutel married Adair Atwell, a former tobacco industry lobbyist.
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Bill Beutel was survived by his wife Adair, as well as his former wives, and his four children from his first marriage.