Bob Teague, Pioneering New York Newsman
Teague, one of New York's first black TV journalists, worked as a reporter, anchor and producer for more than 30 years.
Bob Teague, a longtime New York City newsman, and one of the city's first African-American television journalists, died March 28, 2013, in New Brunswick, NJ. He was 84.
According to news reports, the cause was T-cell lymphoma.
Born in Milwaukee on Jan. 2, 1929, Teague was a football star at the University of Wisconsin, and garnered all-Big 10 honors for his play. He received offers from four professional football teams, but the journalism major turned them down to become a reporter for The Milwaukee Journal.
In 1952, Teague joined the Army. Four years later he moved to New York, where he found work as a news writer for CBS radio. He then moved to The New York Times, where he worked as a sports reporter.
Television station WNBC-TV hired Teague in 1963, a year after Mal Goode became the first black reporter on network television. Teague retired from NBC in 1991.
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