Floyd Kalber

(1924-2004) born at Omaha. Correspondent, news anchor, during almost 50 years in broadcasting, from radio announcer at Kearney, Nebraska in 1946 to television news anchor for National Broadcasting Company affiliates at Omaha from 1950 to 1960, at Chicago until 1976, at New York City until 1981 including three years with the “Today Show,” and an American Broadcasting Company affiliate in Chicago from 1984 to 1998, he was regarded as a serious, traditional journalist and popular with viewers; recipient of regional Emmy Awards in 1967, 1969, and 1972, nominated for regional Emmys in 1966 and 1975; member of Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame and inducted into Silver Circle of the Chicago Television Academy in 1993. Consult Omaha World Herald, October 18, 1969, p. 16 and May 3, 1978, p. 46 and Sunday World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, January 7, 1979, pp. 19-20 and obituary in Chicago Tribune, May 15, 2004, Sec 1, pp. 1, 8.

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