John Hultman, a radio newsman who helped launch the all-news format at WBBM Newsradio and anchored at the station for decades, has died.
WBBM Newsradio’s Rob Hart reported on X that Hultman died over the weekend. Hultman was 89 years old.
Hultman was a native of Wilmette, and attended New Trier Township High School and Purdue University.
In a 1987 interview with fellow radio veteran Chuck Schaden, Hultman said his first commercial radio job was at WNMP in Evanston, where he worked with Don Ferris — later well-known as a staff announcer at WTTW-Channel 11. Hultman told Schaden he then moved to television in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where circa 1960, he hosted a kids’ show and an “American Bandstand”-style dance show at WPTA-TV, Channel 21…