FOF #2837 – The World’s Most Fabulous News Anchor: WGN’s Sean Lewis
Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Fausto Fernós
4.4 • 834 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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He also lives with his co-worker and friend, the World’s Greatest Weatherman, Tom Skilling in a condo overlooking the Worlds’ Greatest lake, Michigan. Sean tells us it’s like living in an episode of the Golden Girls.
https://wgntv.com/author/sean-lewis/
Today, WGN Morning News Weekend Anchor Sean Lewis takes us behind the scenes on being one of the most watched openly gay news anchors and being the face of news in a time when journalism is under attack.
Plus–
➤ Why is Bozo the clown still marching in Chicago’s Pride Parade even though his show went off the air in 2001?
➤ Whitney Houston’s hologram tour and computer generated news anchors. Will computers ever replace people in news and entertainment?
➤ Cockroach vs. Weatherman Justin Mosely.
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| 0:00.0 | Since WGN's call letters originally stood for the world's greatest newspaper, I think we |
| 0:11.9 | could comfortably say that WGN Morning News weekend anchor Sean Lewis is the world's most |
| 0:18.5 | fabulous news anchor. |
| 0:20.4 | Handsome and charming, Sean Lewis started his broadcast news career years ago being out and proud. |
| 0:26.6 | In many ways, Sean Lewis is a gay rights pioneer. |
| 0:30.6 | Sean also lives with his co-worker and friend, the world's greatest weatherman, Tom Skilling, |
| 0:35.6 | in a condo overlooking the world's greatest lake, Michigan. |
| 0:39.4 | Sean tells us it's like living in an episode of the Golden Girls. |
| 0:43.2 | Today, WGN Morning News Weekend anchor Sean Lewis takes us behind the scenes on being one of the most |
| 0:49.4 | watched openly gay news anchors and being the face of news in a time when journalism is under attack. |
| 0:56.8 | Plus, why is Bozo the Clown still marching in Chicago's Pride Parade, even though his show went |
| 1:02.7 | off the air in 2001? |
| 1:04.9 | Whitney Houston's hologram tour and computer-generated news anchors. Will computers ever |
| 1:10.2 | replace people in news and entertainment? |
| 1:12.9 | And Cockroach versus Weatherman, Justin Mosley. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm Faustafernos. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm Mark Filian, and this is Feast of Fun. |
| 1:25.8 | Before we begin, let's listen to WGN Morning News weekend anchor Sean Lewis, signing off from his last job working in Virginia. |
| 1:38.3 | Very true. And as many of you know, as course Tom has said it like three times during the newscast. |
| 1:43.3 | This is my last newscast here at NBC12. |
| 1:46.0 | About two and a half years ago, my friends from the Midwest asked me, why do you want to move to the South? |
| 1:52.0 | Well, for the past month or so, my friends here have asked, why are you moving back to the Midwest with all that snow? |
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