Linda kohlmeyer wgn tv anchors
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Linda Kollmeyer (born 1953 in St. Louis, MO) is a former American Hostess, Model, and Fitness Instructor. She perhaps is best known for her association with the Illinois Lottery over two decades. She served as the hostess on all three game shows developed by the Illinois Lottery in addition to her hosting the daily lottery drawings on the WGN-TV.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, an ordinary farm girl with a passionate love for animals and nature. Linda also had a passion for dancing at a young age and in college, at the University of Missouri, she was a champion twirler and a cheerleader as well as competing in local beauty pageants.
Linda earned a degree in Nursing and afterwards, she made the move to Chicago in the mid-1980s and quickly found work at a local hospital, working closely with AIDS patients. Soon, Kollmeyer left her background in Nursing as she focused all of her energy into her other passion: in front of the camera. She then landed a number of modeling
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WGN-TV
TV station in Chicago
This article is about the local Chicago television station. For the AM radio station, see WGN (AM). For the cable channel that formerly served as the national feed of WGN-TV, see NewsNation.
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| Branding | WGN Channel 9; WGN News |
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First air date | April 5, 1948 (76 years ago) (1948-04-05) |
Former call signs | WGNA (CP, 1946–1948) |
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Call sign meaning | Founded by the Chicago Tribune, the "World's Greatest Newspaper" |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 72115 |
| ERP | 645 kW |
| HAAT | 454 m (1,490 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°52′44″N87°38′10.2″W / 41.87889°N 87.636167°W / 41.87889; -87.636167 |
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| Website | wgntv.com |
WGN-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, Un
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Illinois Lottery's gods Drawing With Linda Kollmeyer on WGN Was Kind Of Sad
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CHICAGO — Linda Kollmeyer, the woman with the perma-smile who presided over the drawing of the winning Illinois Lottery numbers for decades, drew her gods numbers on WGN-TV onsdag på engelska night ... and it was kind of sad.
No, she never relinquished her smile or broke down in tears. But the end of the live drawings on WGN-TV was depressing as Kollmeyer gave a goodbye speech ... and it was cut off when WGN put the lottery sponsors' graphics on the screen.
You could still hear her talking, but it was like when an Oscar winner goes too long and the grupp starts playing.
The Illinois Lottery, which hasn't been paying out winners in recent days while the state is mired in a budget crisis, is moving its drawings online. onsdag på engelska night was the gods one on WGN.
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