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John Charles Daly and the News

John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly (February 20th, 1914 – February 24th, 1991) was an American journalist, game show host and radio personality, probably best known for hosting the panel show What’s My Line?.  He was the vice president of ABC during the 1950s.  On December 22nd, 1960, he became the son-in-law of Chief Justice Earl Warren, upon marrying Virginia Warren.

During the 1950s, Daly became the vice president in charge of news, special events and public affairs, religious programs and sports for ABC and won three Peabody Awards.  From 1953 to 1960, he anchored ABC news broadcasts and was the face of the network’s news division, even though What’s My Line? was then on CBS.  At the time, this was a very rare instance of a television personality working on two different networks simultaneously (technically, Daly worked for Goodson-Todman Productions for “What’s My Line”).  His closing line on the ABC newscast was “Good night, and a good tomorrow.”

 

 

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