Ted Perry

When you see him anchoring the 5 and 10 o'clock news on Channel 6, you might say, "Hey, that guy looks like he could be my brother." That's one of the appealing things about Ted Perry. In addition to his razor wit and self-effacing mannerisms, he's a news guy you wouldn't mind having a beer with, and some of you probably have.

After stints at news stations in Rochester, Minnesota and Chattanooga - Perry refers to those jobs as his "minor league" period - he arrived at WITI-TV on April 1, 1993 ("an April fool's joke on Milwaukee that went horribly wrong," he quipped). He was 29 and hired to be a reporter.

"I've always liked Milwaukee, and I was thrilled when I arrived here. The market has a great reputation." A reputation established by people like Vince Gibbens, a WITI anchor at the time, who took Perry under his wing. "His motto was - if you look good, I look good," Perry said of Gibbens, who died of a heart attack in 1995. "(He) would do everything he could to help reporters and other anchors."

Read more in Jim Cryns great interview with Ted from MKE.

Check out Ted page's at myfoxmilwaukee.com