Remembering Bill McCreary, a Pioneering Journalist and a Former Ch. 5 Anchor

FOX 5 NY takes a look back at Bill McCreary's pioneering and award-winning career. McCreary was a former anchor of The 10 O'Clock News. He also anchored The McCreary Report. McCreary began his career in 1960 at a radio station in Queens. A decade later, he joined Channel 5 as the managing editor and anchor of Black News. He was promoted to co-anchor of The 10 O'Clock News one year later. McCreary was a former vice president at Fox 5 but he is perhaps best known as the anchor and executive producer of The McCreary Report. He interviewed newsmakers from around the world including President Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, and Rosa Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
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[alfonsogreen]

I've watched Bill McCreary as a kid. Straight up hard working. R.I.P

[vsmokethon]

when i was a kid, everybody watch the news ..RIP MR BILL

[jjflash]

I grew up in NYC watching Bill McCreary every night at 10 O'clock. Great Reporter and great human being (who happened to be Black). RIP Bill.

[cfgodwell]

I remember being so proud when Bill hosted THE BLACK NEWS on WNEW. They had the intro up until recently, but someone at YouTube saw fit to erase that as well.

[hansel]

Wow, it’s been 30 years since I lived in the tri-state area. But I remember bill Mccreary. I’ve never seen him smile. Probably why I could always trust everything he said was truth.
A part of my childhood. RIP.

[davesonowski]

RIP i remember him in the mid 70s growing up Bill Jorgenson was there at same time i believed Mr McCreary had a Sunday Show called Black News as a side project

[nycdweller]

I watched him in my youth and always liked him & John Roland together. RIP Bill McCreary

[samanthab]

I remember Fox 5 Ten O'clock News! It's 10 O'clock do you know where your children are? Love growing up in NJ in the 70's!

[samuelgriffin]

My childhood is calling back at me I definitely do remember Black News on Saturday Nights

[patriciamay]

Mr. Bill McCreary, was a man ♂️ of integrity!!!

[dalemcilwain]

A local legend in local news. My mother and I would watch The McCreary Report before I went to bed.

[jamesdeane]

A no-nonsense journalist that broke barriers for many people. RIP

[darrylsimpson]

I remember before it became the McCreary Report, it was known as Black News.

[qolspony]

I just found out he had passed. He was a pioneer.

[samuelgriffin]

Television isn't the same anymore

[mikeh]

@ 1:59, Lynne White mentions not to many "Black Faces" in local NYC media.

Those of you who grew up in NYC during the 60's is NOT THE CASE!

GIL NOBLE; MELBA TOLIVER (WABC)

I don't remember WCBS first black reporter BUT at WNBC, BOB TEAGUE!

[ericsamuelson]

First, Bill McCreary died in 2021. Now, John Roland died recently. The two are now together again with Bill Mazer and Gabe Pressman.

[UNOwen]

All this horse shite about 'racial barriers...' Here, in NYC, is such nonsense. The city has NE ER- EVER been a typical 'american' city, as we've always been a site of international commerce. It was the southern slaves, who came up north, to places LIKE NYC.

I remember Mr McCreary as a great journalist... PERIOD.

I also despise anything to do with 'FUX' as it should be known.