Randall Salerno (January 4, 1963 – January 24, 2008) was an American
news anchor
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for
CBS
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news in
Chicago
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,
Illinois
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at
WBBM-TV
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. Salerno had previously worked at
WGN-TV
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alongside
Roseanne Tellez at both
WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's CBS network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington St ...
and
WGN-TV
WGN-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is sister station, sister to the company ...
1993-2004.
Biography
Salerno served as a general assignment reporter and as the weekend morning news anchor from 1994 till 1999.
Before working at WGN, Salerno was a reporter and weekend anchor at
WNYT
WNYT (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Albany, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting alongside Pittsfield, Massachusetts–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliat ...
in
Albany, New York
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. Prior to that, he worked at
WMBD-TV
WMBD-TV (channel 31) is a television station in Peoria, Illinois, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to Bloomington-licensed Fox affiliate WYZZ-TV (channel 43) under a local ...
and
WHOI-TV in
Peoria, Illinois
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. He began his broadcasting career at WIFR-TV in
Rockford, Illinois
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as a general assignment reporter.
Salerno received his B.S. in Communication from
Illinois State University
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in 1985, where he was an anchor/reporter for the campus TV station. He lived in
Crystal Lake, Illinois
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, where he attended
Crystal Lake South High School
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and played basketball.
Death
Salerno passed away in a snowmobile accident on the night of January 24, 2008, on Plum Lake near Sayner/Eagle River, Wisconsin. He was a passenger on the snowmobile when it struck a tree.
Salerno is survived by his wife Irene and 3 children.
Awards
Randy Salerno won a local
Emmy Award
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for his work on CBS 2's 2004 broadcast of the LaSalle Bank
Chicago Marathon
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.
References
Friend charged in snowmobiling death of Channel 2 anchor Randy Salerno January 25, 2008;
Chicago Tribune
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, Retrieved January 25, 2008
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1963 births
2008 deaths
Television anchors from Chicago
People from Aurora, Illinois
Sports deaths in Wisconsin
Illinois State University alumni
People from Crystal Lake, Illinois
Journalists from Illinois
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists