Fahey Flynn

{{Infobox person

| name = Fahey Flynn

| image = WLS TV Eyewitness News team 1972.JPG

| caption = Eyewitness News team, 1972. Back, from left: anchor John Drury, anchor Joel Daly. Front, from left: weatherman John Coleman, anchor Fahey Flynn, sportscaster Bill Frink.

| alma_mater =

| birth_date = August 6, 1916

| birth_place = Escanaba, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|8|8|1916|8|6}}

| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| occupation = News Anchor

| employer = WBBM-TV (1953-1968)
WLS-TV (1968-1983)

| spouse =

| years_active = 1953-1983

}}

Fahey Flynn (August 6, 1916 – August 8, 1983) was a radio and television newscaster who spent the majority of his career in Chicago. Robert Feder of the Chicago Sun-Times described him as "an avuncular Irishman with a jaunty bow tie [and] a twinkle in his eye".Robert Feder. "Legendary anchorman left lasting impression". Chicago Sun-Times. August 8, 2003. 57.

A six-time Emmy winner,"Fahey Flynn, at 67; Radio-TV newsman". Associated Press. Boston Globe. August 10, 1983. Flynn started his career in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1934.{{cite news|title=Chicago Newscaster Fahey Flynn Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2359422/fahey_flynn_19161983/|newspaper=The Pantagraph|date=August 9, 1983|page=4|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 6, 2015 }} {{Open access}} Flynn worked in Chicago from 1941 until his death at a hospital there from internal hemorrhaging in 1983 at age 67. From 1953 to 1968, he was an anchor for WBBM-TV. He then joined Joel Daly as co-anchor at WLS-TV, and by 1971 the pair had become Chicago's highest-rated broadcasting team, retaining the lead in Chicago news ratings through 1979.

Flynn, a history and English major, graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1939 and received the distinguished alumni award in 1978.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uwosh.edu/alumni/alumni-awards/award-recipients/distinguished-alumni/1979-1970|title=1979-1970 — Alumni|website=www.uwosh.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-03-04}}