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About Mary Ann Childers
- Mary Ann Childers is an American media consultant and former newscaster.
- From 1980 to 1994, she worked as an anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago, where she became the first woman to anchor a top-rated 10pm newscast in Chicago.
- She then worked as a reporter and anchor at Chicago's WBBM-TV from 1994 to 2008. Childers grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.
- During her senior year at Northwestern University in 1974, she entered broadcasting as an intern at WGN-TV in Chicago.
- At the time, she was a pre-law student, but she applied for the broadcasting internship to earn the last credit she needed to graduate.
- After her internship ended, she became an associate producer for The Phil Donahue Show, which was being filmed at the WGN studios.
- She left the show for news anchor jobs at WAVE in Louisville and WTHR in Indianapolis, then moved back to the Chicago market in 1980, joining WLS-TV as a weekend anchor.By 1986, Childers and John Drury were anchoring Chicago's top-rated 10pm news broadcast.
- In 1987, Robert Feder wrote, "With the obvious exception of Oprah Winfrey, the most popular television stars in Chicago today are WLS-Channel 7 anchors John Drury and Mary Ann Childers." In 1994, Childers decided not to renew her contract with WLS and joined WBBM-TV.It was announced on March 31, 2008, that she would be leaving WBBM along with 17 others, as part of cost cutting throughout the CBS news division.
- Her contract was not renewed along with on-air personalities Diann Burns and Sports Director Mark Malone.
- She then joined the Res Publica Group, a strategic communications firm.Childers is married to Jay Levine, a fellow journalist who worked with her at WLS and WBBM.
- They were married in 1989.
- For a time, the two served as co-anchors on WBBM.
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