WIOU

Overview

WIOU is an American television drama series, which aired on CBS in 1990 and 1991. The show is set in the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign is WNDY, but which is nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's perennial financial struggles. The show stars John Shea as news director Hank Zaret. The cast also includes Mariette Hartley as executive producer Liz McVay, Harris Yulin and Helen Shaver as news anchors Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson, Phil Morris as aggressive reporter Eddie Bock, Jayne Brook as reporter Ann Hudson, Kate McNeil as reporter Taylor Young, Dick Van Patten as aging weatherman Floyd Graham, and Wallace Langham as news intern Willis Teitelbaum. According to television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, this program received such low ratings that although 18 episodes were actually produced, five were never aired upon the program's cancellation.

Cast

Helen Shaver

Kelby Robinson

Harris Yulin

Neal Frazier

Phil Morris

Eddie Brock

John Shea

Hank Zaret

Joe Grifasi

Tony Pro

Robin Gammell

Kevin Doherty

Mariette Hartley

Liz McVay

Kate McNeil

Taylor Young

Dick Van Patten

Floyd Graham

Wallace Langham

Willis Teitlebaum