Joe Donlon

Joe Donlon is one of the eight, male main news anchors in the history of KGW-TV (Richard Ross, John North, Ralph Wenge, Bill Lagatutta, Pete Schulberg, Steve Abrams, Jim Benneman-- only one of them was jerk, and I never met Ross, or North. I have no idea who the current main, male anchor is at KGW. The main women anchors over time have been Robin Chapman, Kathy Smith, Tracy Barry, Carol Jensen, and Laurel Porter-- They were all very nice.) BACK TO JOE. He was a stellar news anchor and newsroom leader for 21 years. He’s also a wonderful guy to be around. He could have eased into retirement after a few more years KGW, but took on a huge challenge in 2018, moving to WGN Chicago to anchor its flagship newscast, and now Joe is helping the corporation start a new, national cable news network—News Nation. He was the obvious choice to host of “The Donlon Report” there nightly. Loved re-visiting the KGW days with Joe, including the weird, I think useless, advice he got from our assistant news director seconds before going on the air for one of the biggest news stories of his time in the Northwest.