Feder on death of "Ward Quaal"

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: "Ward Quaal, a giant of American broadcasting and the man who turned the call letters WGN into a nationally recognized and respected brand, died Friday in a north suburban nursing home. He was 91. As an announcer for WGN Radio on Dec. 7, 1941, Quaal broadcast one of the first bulletins of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which launched the United States into World War II. Shortly after he became vice president and general manager of WGN in 1956, Quaal was credited with hiring both Wally Phillips and Bob Bell from WLW and WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, among other prescient moves. He eventually moved up to president of parent company WGN Continental Broadcasting (now Tribune Broadcasting Co.)."

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