Bill Ryan (journalist)


William Emmett "Bill" Ryan III was an American broadcast journalist with the NBC television network and its owned and operated local station WNBC-TV in New York City for 26 years, and also served for a year as news anchor at WOR-TV. Ryan was also co-anchor of the Ralph & Ryan radio morning show on 570 WMCA in the late-1970s to early-1980s in New York City. He is shown here on the right in the main photo in this ad for WMCA.
He may be best-remembered for anchoring NBC's coverage of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, along with Chet Huntley and Frank McGee.