<\/a> Steve Sanders<\/p><\/div>\n
Steve Sanders, a consummate professional and one of the all-time coolest guys on Chicago television, is retiring after more than 37 years as a news anchor at WGN-Channel 9.<\/a><\/p>\n
Steve Sanders and Tom Skilling<\/p><\/div>\n
WGN beckoned in 1982. In between two long stints as midday news anchor, Sanders co-anchored the station's top-rated 9 p.m. weeknight newscast from 1993 to 2008. In 2010 he was inducted in the Silver Circle of the Chicago\/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n
Sanders made a bit of local TV history in December when he was pressed into service<\/a> at the last minute to host \"Family Classics,\" the venerable WGN movie series. Filling in for Dean Richards, he became only the fourth person ever to host the show \u2014 after Frazier Thomas, Roy Leonard and Richards.<\/p>\n
Here is the text of Sanders\u2019s email to his colleagues:<\/strong><\/p>\n