Harry Porterfield worked at WLS-TV for 24 years.
There will be a public memorial in Chicago. Those details and private funeral arrangements are pending.Harry Porterfield Jr. was born in Saginaw, Michigan on August 29, 1928, his family said."I became a stage hand for the television side. I ran cameras and set up the stage for Romper Room. I'd come in and do the 10 o'clock news; it was 11 o'clock in Michigan then," Porterfield previously said.
Among his many journalistic achievements in the Midwest region includes his decades-long segment called "Someone You Should Know," his family said. Porterfield told thousands of community member's unique stories which cemented his remarkable impact on Chicagoland and beyond. "And the producer said, well, we ought to do something through the week that we could hold and save the time we really needed them, particularly on Saturdays. We had no news... nothing... nothing to put in the show. So let's call it 'Some You Should Know' and I thought it was the silliest name I'd ever heard," Porterfield said.As the best known African American face then anchoring a Chicago newscast, his departure from the station sparked a boycott against Channel 2.
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