WLS-Channel 7<\/a> immediately picked up Porterfield, who spent the next 24 years there before rejoining CBS 2 in 2009.<\/p>\nA native of Saginaw, Michigan, and graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Porterfield began his career as a jazz disc jockey at WKNX Radio in Saginaw. After working various jobs at WKNX-TV, he joined CBS 2 as a news writer, and later moved up to reporter, anchor and program host. He launched his \u201cSomeone You Should Know\u201d profile series in 1977.<\/p>\n
In 1993 Porterfield earned a law degree from DePaul University School of Law.<\/p>\n
Winner of 11 regional Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award and a Studs Terkel Award, Porterfield was inducted in the the Silver Circle of the Chicago\/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harry Porterfield, dean of Chicago television news anchors whose signature series was \"Someone You Should Know,\" is stepping down after a legendary career spanning more than 50 years, CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 announced Thursday. Porterfield, 87, who most recently co-anchored the 11 a.m. weekday newscast with Roseanne Tellez, made his final appearance on the air last... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9796,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}