Month: March 2021

Demetrius Ivory is an American Meteorologist. He currently works at WGN as their weather forecaster. Demetrius kicked off his career as a weatherman by working as a chief meteorologist for Lima. He also served as a meteorologist for WYTV based in Ohio. After leaving WYTV, Demetrius started serving as the weather reporter at WTAE hosting the This Morning show of the station.

Mike Janssen is an American meteorologist. He currently serves as a weather forecaster At WGN.TV. Prior to joining the station, Mike served as a meteorologist and also a reporter at WSIL-TV based in Carterville, Illinois, WYIN-TV  based in Merrillville, Indiana, as well as WGNO-TV located in New Orleans.

Lauren Magiera is a popular American sports anchor and reporter from Chicago, who worked with WGN News from April 2016 to April 2022. She was the station’s first female sports anchor. Previously, coming to WGN, she served at the NFL Green Bay Packers as a co-host of a weekly 30-minute pre-game show. Currently, she joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk all things baseball and some classic etiquette rules that are fading away.

Gaynor Hall is an American anchor and reporter. She currently works as an anchor and reporter at WGN.TYV. Her main role is acting as the station, general assignment reporter. Gaynor joined the network in 2008 working as a freelance reporter. Prior to this, she served as a morning anchor as well as a producer at WMGT based in Macon, Georgia.

Bronagh Tumulty is an American journalist. Currently, she serves on the WGN News team since July 2020 as a general assignment reporter. Previously, she worked at KUTV in Salt Lake City Utah for a period of two and half years. In addition, she also spent many years reporting at the News 12 Network in New York plus as a producer at KTVT in the Dallas and Fort Worth area.

Lauren Jiggetts is an American Journalist. She currently works at WGN as their Morning News. Lauren co-anchors the 4 am as well as the 5 am newscasts of the station. She joined the WGn network on July 10, 2017. Previously, Lauren served the NBC 5 network based in Chicago. While there, she held a  variety of positions but mostly served as the weekend news anchor.

Dan Ponce is a popular American journalist who currently anchors the WGN Morning News from 4-6 am together with Lauren Jiggetts. He is also a radio talk show host on WLS-AM (890) and creator of the a cappella group Straight No Chaser. Previously, Dan served as a general assignment reporter at Chicago’s ABC7 Eyewitness News.

Micah Materre is a popular American journalist currently working as a news anchor at the WGN-TV. Before, Micah worked as a news anchor and reporter at Fox 2 News Detroit. Prior to that, she worked as a news reporter at KCRG-TV9.

Tonya Francisco is a journalist. She currently works for WGN hosting the station’s Saturday and Sunday Morning News. Tonya started her journalism career working as a desk assistant at WLS-TV/Channel 7 based in Chicago. She also served at WOOD-TV based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, while there, Tonya worked as a reporter and associate producer.

Ben Bradley is an American investigative reporter. He currently works at WGN with the station’s Investigative team based in Chicago. Ben joined the team in January 2017. He also co-anchors the WGN Evening News from 4-5 pm along with Lourdes Duarte. Previously, Ben served at WLS-TV and ABC7 statins based in Chicago as a reporter as well as weekend morning anchor.