Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtisis an American television journalist, producer, narrator, and news anchor. He was also the host of a number of A&E crime and news documentary shows, including Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files. Previously, he anchored CBS Morning News, and was the longtime anchor at WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned and -operated TV station in Chicago. Kurtis is currently the scorekeeper/announcer for NPR’s news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, as well as serving as the host of Through...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth21 September 1940
CityPensacola, FL
CountryUnited States of America
I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.
I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.
There's room for a diversity of ages on television.
That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.