# Local TV types in your area who made it to big time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-tv-types-in-your-area-who-made-it-to-big-time/531186>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-tv-types-in-your-area-who-made-it-to-big-time/531186 "2010-03-03T21:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-tv-types-in-your-area-who-made-it-to-big-time/531186/41 "2010-03-04T17:23:15Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Connie Chung was on the local CBS news in L.A. before she ‘made it bigtime’ in New York.

And before that, she was in Chicago – the father of a friend of mine did the photo work on her portfolio. Said father was a commercial artist in the Loop and did quite a bit of photo retouch work in the 60s & 70s, including jobs for Playboy back when Hef still lived in the Windy City.

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**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-tv-types-in-your-area-who-made-it-to-big-time/531186/42 "2010-03-04T19:03:34Z")

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I lived in Baltimore in the late 1970s when Oprah Winfrey was a weekend anchor.

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**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-tv-types-in-your-area-who-made-it-to-big-time/531186/43 "2010-03-04T19:08:39Z")

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Rick Sanchez used to work for the local Fox affiliate (which my BFF and I referred to as “Gloom and Doom”) in Miami when I lived in South Florida. I endured Hurricane Andrew and the Elian Gonzales story while watching him squat over maps of Cuba and South Florida in some edgy presentation… thingy. Now I get to watch him squat over different maps on CNN. :rolleyes:

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