10 Facts About Bill Frink

William R Frink was an American former news presenter.

Bill Frink served as the sportscaster for Chicago's WLS-TV.

Bill Frink started his career in 1941 at WTRC in Elkhart, Indiana, as a radio sports announcer while still in high school.

At WLS in 1968, Bill Frink was teamed with Fahey Flynn, Joel Daly and John Coleman to form the Eyewitness News team, creating a news brand name and establishing a highly successful new local news format derisively dubbed "happy talk" by a local television columnist.

In 1979, Bill Frink spent ten weeks at ABC in New York before returning to Chicago to work for WGN Radio and TV until 1984.

Bill Frink then reported for KSTP Minneapolis hockey in 1983, Sports Time Cable in 1984, Group W Cable in 1986, Century Broadcasting in 1986, and Prime Cable in 1991.

Bill Frink retired from radio and TV in 1991 and taught broadcast journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in his retirement.

Bill Frink was born in 1926 in Elkhart, Indiana, the fourth child of a newspaper editor and teacher, Maurice Bill Frink Sr.

Bill Frink married Willa Allen Frink on March 20,1949, and they had two daughters.

Bill Frink retired in 1991 to Evanston, Illinois, where he volunteered at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian and the Reading Room of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist.