Need Mora Viewers
Chicago’s WBBM-TV snags anchor Antonio Mora from ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
By
Kathryn S. Wenner
Kathryn S. Wenner, a former AJR associate editor, is a copy editor at the Washington Post.
WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned Chicago station, scores a network anchor for its long-troubled evening newscasts. Antonio Mora, who delivered the news and was substitute host on ABC's "Good Morning America," will coanchor WBBM's 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts with Tracy Townsend. "I've always been willing to go to a local market," says Mora, 44, whose wife is from Chicago. "It made sense professionally and personally. I was certainly somewhat frustrated with my life at ABC. I was looking forward to a challenge, where it was my face and my responsibility to help move the show along, and not to keep being the sidekick." Mora, a Havana native, decided he wanted to go into broadcasting after his first few years as a lawyer. In 1989, he made his on-air debut as a last-minute fill-in sports anchor on Univision's WXTV. In 1994 he joined ABC, where he reported for "Nightline," "20/20" and "World News Tonight" and anchored breaking news coverage. ###
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