Phil Ponce Biography
Phil Ponce is a media personality serving as “Chicago Tonight” Host on WTTW11. Ponce who describes himself as “99% retired” from WTTW/Channel 11 still pulls occasional shifts on “Chicago Tonight,” the show where he was a reporter or anchor from 1992 until 2021, minus two years on a national PBS show.
Phil Ponce Age
How old is Phil Ponce? According to my information, Phil is 73 years old. He was born on September 26, 1949, in McAllen, Texas.
Phil Ponce Height
He is 5 feet 6 inches, approximately 1.68 meters or 168 centimeters.
Phil Ponce Nationality
He holds American nationality.
Phil Ponce Education
Ponce attended Bishop Noll Institute in Hammond, Indiana. Subsequently, he graduated from Indiana University with a B.A. in English in 1971 and from the University of Michigan where he received a law degree in 1974.
Phil Ponce Parents
Phil is the son of immigrant steelworkers and one of nine children. He was born and raised in East Chicago. However, his parents’ names are unknown. He hasn’t also revealed the identity of any of his siblings.
Phil Ponce Wife
Who is Phil Ponce married to? Phil is married to his lovely wife, Ann Ponce, who is a Chicago portrait and landscape artist.
Phil Ponce Kids
How many children does Phil Ponce have? Phil and his wife Ann Ponce are blessed with 3 kids. His daughter, Maria Ponce, is a photographer in Chicago. He also has two sons. Dan Ponce is the founder of the Cappella group, Straight No Chaser, and was a television reporter with ABC7 (WLS-TV) in Chicago for three years until leaving in January 2009. Dan is currently a morning anchor at WGN Ch. 9. His other son, Anthony Ponce, was a television reporter with NBC5 (WMAQ-TV), and is now a morning anchor at WFLD Ch. 32, also in Chicago.
Dan and Anthony, born two years apart, attended the same high school, New Trier, in Winnetka, Ill.; went to the same university, Indiana; earned degrees from the same graduate journalism program at the Medill School; worked in similar small markets, Lansing, Mich., and Fort Wayne; and now work at the top two television news stations in Chicago, their hometown.
Phil Ponce WTTW
Who is Phil Ponce? Ponce is an American journalist and television presenter. He is notable as a Chicago television journalist who hosts Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices, a weekly television magazine of news and culture in Chicago’s predominantly Latino communities. It airs on weekends, along with Chicago Tonight and Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, on WTTW
Ponce began his career as a lawyer. He practiced law for six years before going into broadcasting. he got his first job in broadcasting as a weekend reporter for an ABC affiliate in Indianapolis. In 1982 he joined the Chicago CBS station WBBM-TV as a reporter. Ponce left WBBM-TV in late 1991 to take a position as manager of international communications for the telecommunications company Ameritech Corporation.
In 1992, he began his career at WTTW11 as a correspondent for Chicago Tonight — a position he held until 1997 when he left to become one of Jim Lehrer’s supporting anchors on the national PBS show, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. He returned to Chicago two years later as the successor to long-time Chicago Tonight host, John Callaway (Callaway later hosted WTTW’s Friday Night program). Ponce also teaches journalism at Loyola University Chicago where he is the university’s distinguished journalist in residence.
He later announced that he would reduce his workload to three days a week in 2018 and two days a week in 2019.
Phil Ponce Salary
He earned an average annual salary of $239,147.
Phil Ponce Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth that ranges from $1 Million to $5 Million as of 2023.
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