I am very saddened by the death of former WJBK-TV and WXYZ-TV news anchor and former talk show host John Kelly.

John Kelly, along with his wife Marilyn Turner; are people who I wantd to be cased in the Arthur movie for adults playing their own selves who are a news anchor, a weather girl in the case of Marilyn; and hosts of one of many NPVT-TV’s locally produced talk shows. Actually, I was going to have Kelly, Turner, Oprah Winfrey; and retired CFCF-TV personality Don McGowan each play the 4 hosts of a local talk show at NPVT-TV.

Kelly & Company, as ABC had mandated that each of it’s owned and operated stations have their own in-house, locally produced talk show; was WXYZ-TV’s own iteration of A.M Chicago/Oprah Winfrey’s nationally syndicated talk show, A.M New York/Regis, Kathie Lee, Kelly Ripa, and Michael; A.M San Francisco (hosted by another husband and wife team who were also former news anchors and reporters-Fred LaCosse and Terry Lowry); and A.M Los Angeles.

I was a young broadcast student at Central Michigan University in the early ’70’s when Channel 7 pulled off one of the greatest programming coups in local television history.

Source: Remembering Legendary Channel 7 Anchor John Kelly