1. Joel Daly was an American news anchor, most known for serving as an anchor for WLS-TV in Chicago, Illinois, for 38 years from 1967 to 2005.
20 Facts About Joel Daly
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Joel Daly was inducted into the Silver Circle, a group of elite Chicago broadcasters, in 2003.
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Joel Daly was born August 21,1934, in Great Falls, Montana, and was raised in Washington state.
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Four years after finishing college, Joel Daly joined WJW-TV in Cleveland in early 1960.
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Joel Daly served as co-anchor with Doug Adair, and the two became the first co-anchor news team in the United States.
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In Chicago, Joel Daly began doing a solo newscast called Newsnight.
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In 1968, about the time the station was renamed WLS-TV, Joel Daly was paired with Fahey Flynn, and the two became the highest-rated evening news team in the city, winning a local Emmy Award after just one year on the air.
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Joel Daly himself did not use the phrase "happy talk" to describe his style, noting, "We always took the news seriously, if we didn't always take ourselves too seriously".
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Joel Daly then joined Oprah Winfrey to co-anchor WLS-TV's 4:00 pm news broadcast.
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Joel Daly remained there until May 2005, when he announced that he would step down as anchor to pursue other interests.
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Joel Daly was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 2001 and received the first Illinois Broadcast Pioneer Award in 2008.
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Joel Daly won five Emmys over the course of his career.
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In 1988, Joel Daly received a Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law after four years of taking evening classes.
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Joel Daly became director of external relations at the John Marshall Law School in 2005, and taught some classes there.
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In 2007, Joel Daly was named a spokesperson for the US District Court in Chicago.
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Joel Daly played a news reporter in the controversial 2006 film Death of a President, which portrays the fictional assassination of George W Bush.
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Joel Daly has dabbled in music, especially country music and yodeling.
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Joel Daly has sung with a group called The Sundowners and occasionally wrote his own songs.
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Joel Daly died on October 22,2020, at his home in La Grange, Illinois.
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Joel Daly was 86 years old and had suffered from vascular Parkinsonism in the time leading up to his death.