Category: WDIV – Detroit, MI

LeGoff, Jacques – ‘Jac’

Jacques LeGoff – ‘Jac’

WDIV: Editorial Driector, News Anchor.

WXYZ: Deceased. TV news anchor, 1975-1983.

WJBK: Anchor

Former WXYZ-TV anchorman Jac LeGoff dies at 87

Jac attended Northwestern University before enlisting in the Navy during WWII. He finished school at Columbia College in Chicago after the war. Jac worked in radio and television broadcasting since 1948, serving as production manager at the NBC affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio before coming to Detroit in 1953. He worked as television news anchor and news director at WJBK-TV (channel 2) in Detroit for 30 years, then as news anchor at WXYZ-TV (channel 7) for 10 years. He was also the editorial director and news anchor at WDIV-TV (channel 4) for ten years before retiring in 1990. He was a former member of east side Kiwanis Club and a former board member of Sacred heart Rehabilitation Center in Detroit. Current member of the National Academy of Radio and Television Arts and Sciences. Husband of Marguerite for 42 years and a blended family of seven children and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

August 30, 2017
Clinkingbeard, Bob
WXYZ: TV news. News Director at WFMY.

AdWeek.com, September 22, 2015, “Bob Clinkingbeard has been named news director at TEGNA-owned Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. CBS affiliate WTSP. Clinkingbeard comes from TEGNA’s Greensboro, N.C. station WFMY where he was news director.”

References:
- LinkedIn
- Facebook
- AdWeek, September 22, 2015 (PDF)
- Yup, Another Party!
  Chris Allen, Bob Clinkingbeard, Su Goodman, Trip Kraniak, Ray Thurber, Terry Pochert – Photo from Terry Pochert’s retirement collection
- Under the Big Top at WXYZ
  Bob Clinkingbeard, Helen Pasakarnis, John Terry – From Terry Pochert’s retirement collection
- More Parties – Happier Co-workers
  Bob Clinkingbeard, Helen Pasakarnis, Wanda Doerner – From Terry Pochert’s retirement collection
- Just Prior to the Six PM News
  WXYZ: It’s always hussle bussle prior to any newscast. Here the six o’clock producer, Bob Clinkingbeard is finalizing the rundown for the newscast along with the writers and executive producers.
  
  Donella Crawford, Lynda Solomon, Dan Dmitrik, Walter Kraft, Steve Kremer, Bob Clinkingbeard
August 29, 2017
Atkinson Hudson, Dianne
WXYZ: Associate Producer for Kelly and Company.

WDIV: Coordinating Producer.

Broadcasting – August 25, 1980
- Behind The Scene of WXYZ’s Kelly and Company
  WXYZ: This newspaper article gives a glimpse of what it was like to be behind the scenes of Kelly & Company.
  
  John Kelly, Marilyn Turner, Nancy Lenzen, Dianne Atkinson Hudson, Randy Barone, Howard Makkonen, Calvin Houts, Lisa Klein, Chuck Derry, Mason Weaver
  Eddie Dorfman
  
  References:
  
  Canton Observer – August 23, 1979 (PDF)
August 27, 2017
LaVelle, Rhonda Errer
xWXYZ: News Director.

Previously Executive Producer at WDIV; News Director at KPRC.

References:
- Twitter
- LinkedIn
- Facebook
- Rhonda LaVelle joins WXYZ, WMYD as news director – June 6, 2016 (PDF)
Tweets by rhondaerrer
August 15, 2017
Chun, Jee-in
WXYZ: News producer.

References:
- LinkedIn
July 31, 2017