She was educated at Hugh Beaton Public School and graduated from Walkerville Collegiate before attending the University of Western Ontario at London where she studied psychology before switching to teaching. Marilyn Miller was born and bred in Windsor, Ontario across the river from Detroit. You don't call a man a weather boy." The ad ran only once. "I don't believe any woman over 21 should be called a girl. Then, later that year (October 1972), Marilyn Turner left WJBK to join the Channel 7 Action News team as a weathercaster five nights a week.Īfter seeing a newspaper ad referring to her as a weather girl, forty-one-year-old Turner let WXYZ management know she bristled at the weather girl label. The popular sportscaster was swooped up by WXYZ. Not long after, WWJ-Channel 4 fired Al Ackerman for editorializing on-air during his live sports broadcast. Early in 1972, John Kelly jumped from WJBK-Channel 2 to WXYZ-Channel 7 and became co-anchor opposite Bill Bonds. In the 1970s at the direction of parent company American Broadcasting Company (ABC), WXYZ began an aggressive build-up of local news. The toughest part of the job was having to laugh at LeGoff's tepid sense of humor. John changed his birth surname to the more mainstream Kelly and began working as a field reporter before becoming co-anchor of WJBK's evening news program with senior correspondent Jac LeGoff.
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After his enlistment was up, he worked as a TV program director and production manager in Rockford, Illinois before moving to WJBK in August 1965.
He served as a radioman in World War II and again in Korea.
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