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Elgas promoted to anchor at WLS

May 10, 2016 by Veronica Villafañe

Rob Elgas
ABC posted a congratulatory message about Rob Elgas’ promotion online.

Reporter Rob Elgas is moving up to the anchor desk at Chicago’s WLS-Channel 7.

Starting May 26, he’ll anchor ABC 7’s Eyewitness News at 4:00 pm alongside current co-anchor Linda Yu.

An Emmy-award winning journalist, he takes over for Alan Krashesky, who will replace primetime anchor Ron Magers after his retirement on May 25.

Rob’s promotion comes less than a year since he joined ABC 7 as a general assignment reporter and fill-in news anchor.

Before starting at ABC, he spent 13 years at rival NBC 5, where he anchored weekdays at 4:30 pm and reported for the 10 pm newscast.

Rob previously worked for ABC7 in El Paso from 1998 to 2002, starting as a weekend anchor before co-anchoring the morning show. He began his broadcasting career as a photographer for WICD-TV in Champaign-Urbana.

Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Rob Elgas, WLS

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  1. Marie says

    June 2, 2016 at 4:40 PM

    Just can’t believe that TPTB promoted Elgas instead of Ravi Bechwal or someone else – like Ben Bradley or Paul Meineke – is so shortsighted. His toothy, vacant smile does not give an aura of intelligence or confidence. Which is what you need after the departure of Ron Magers and the (well-deserved) promotion of Alan Kreshesky. Too bad you promoted the wrong person.

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Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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