Doug is a longtime central Illinois broadcaster. He's worked in
the Taylorville, Springfield, Decatur, Danville and Champaign-Urbana
markets since 1974.
Doug is currently Chief Weather Anchor at WICD-TV,
in Champaign and Weather Anchor at WCCU-TV in
Urbana.
This site is dedicated to preserving central Illinois
Broadcast History. It's being constantly updated with
additions and maybe even a few revisions. Check back
often.
email:
dougquick @ dougquick.com
Click on the logos
above for the
History of each of these
Central Illinois Heritage TV Stations.
CLICK ON PHOTO
ABOVE FOR LARGER VIEW
Recent Updates:
May
27, 2009
Added video from the second segment of The History of WICD which
was broadcast
on Monday, May 25th.
June 1, 2009
Updated the historical pages for WICD(page
1), WAND(page 1 and 2), WICS(page 1) to fix outdated video links.
Added new-old video in some cases or found other versions which are
available. I also added video which I have submitted of classic
TV shows.
June 6, 2009
Added some video of the Taylorville Flood of 1957
to the Comments page....and added the
weathercast below.
June 7-9, 2009
Added new Links page with some old
favorites and the promise of more to come.
Added video to WICD History Page 5.
Video is an aircheck of WICD-TV from a Saturday
night in 1996 which featured the last Bob Hope Special called
"Bob Hope: Laughing with the Presidents."
This includes me doing voice overs for "Sunrise" on a station
ID, as well as weather and sports ID/'promos with
Kieth Page and Scott Andresen.
July 2, 2009
Be sure and check out my new blog site
by clicking either above on the "Doug Quick Blog" button
or just click here.
There's not much on it now, but give me
time. I hope to add to it often!
July 3, 2009
Welcome ABC/NewsChannel
15/WICD viewers!
If you saw the 3rd segment of the "The History of WICD"
which was broadcast on Friday night(July 3rd), and
perhaps missed the earlier segments, you can
see them here. Check them out
at WICD History Page 7.
I'll add segment 3, ASAP.
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