Ed Grennan

Ed Grennan

Ed Grennan (1922 – August 22, 2000) was a staff announcer with WNBQ and WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois.

Grennan started his radio career in 1944 with the Armed Forces radio Network while in Guam.  After some stints downstate and in Michigan, he returned to Chicago to work at several stations including WGN, WAIT and WBBM-FM. Grennan worked for WLS radio from 1959-1960, and then WNBQ/WMAQ the NBC owned and operated station in Chicago.

Grennan was probably best known to the Chicago television audience as the host of It's Academic, a weekly quiz show of the late 1960s where three teams of students from Chicago area high schools competed to answer questions on academic subjects and general knowledge. He hosted the show for eleven years. [ [http://www.wlshistory.com/jox/edgrennan.htm Ed Grennan ] ] Grennan won an Emmy for football announcing and for It's Academic.

After Grennan's retirement in 1991, he had a supporting role in David Lynch's Buena Vista film "The Straight Story".

External links

* [http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/grennan/grennan.html Tribute Website]

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