The original "Ron Burgandy," TV news anchor Ron Hunter, dies.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

30 years gone from the Chicago airwaves and we still hear stories about this guy here. Poor SOB, even the obit writers can't help taking a few shots at him.
--Gid.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-tv-anchor-death-web-jun28,0,7708244.story?track=rss

[devilgrrl]

1. He was in Buffalo briefly when I was a kid.

http://www.forgottenbuffalo.com/forgottenbuffalomedia/ch2wgrwgrztv.html

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I love this quote from your link...

From Forgotten Buffalo:

Ron Hunter had THE biggest ego of any person male or female I've ever worked with, and it's not even close. It was actually quite incredible how much Ron valued his own opinions and appearance, and yet in a strange way, he made it seem natural; like, doesn't EVERYBODY think like I do? You want an example? Ok, for starters, when Ron began anchoring at Ch2 after moving to Buffalo from New Orleans, where he virtually owned the market, we didn't call it Ch2 News, or Action News, or even News news. We called it, "The Ron Hunter Report". Not only that, Ron had a special animated opening made up, which featured a likeness of Ron, with his big buffont hair-do, running around with a microphone as if he's out getting the scoop. The show then opens, with Ron leaning into the camera, and with a booming voice "I'm Ron Hunter, and the big story in Buffalo is....." The standing joke around the news room, of course, was that the next word would be "me".

[Earth_First]

3. Stay classy, DU! n/t

[hlthe2b]

4. I didn't know much about him...

but this bit:
He made news in 1990 when his wife, Marilou "Bunny" Hunter, died of a reportedly self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, while Mr. Hunter lay next to her in bed.

Hours earlier, she had called Mr. Hunter's radio talk show while he interviewed a sex therapist to discuss their marital problems. The coroner said there was no evidence her death was a homicide, but Mr. Hunter could not escape the headlines. His station fired him a few days later, and he fell on hard times after that.


Sounds like this guy was born with quite the Achilles Heal (ego) that ever propragated until it may have done him in....

I'm sure there were those who loved him and I wish they be at peace.