Bill Walsh, Anchor

Bill Walsh currently anchors CBS 58’s Noon and 4 p.m. newscasts alongside Amanda Porterfield.

He began his broadcast career in Rochester, Minnesota, as a weekend sports anchor for the NBC affiliate, working as a multimedia journalist—shooting, editing, and writing his own stories. While sports opened the door, Bill’s professional focus quickly shifted to news and storytelling with public impact.

Bill went on to work as a weekend news anchor at WKBT-TV in La Crosse and as a reporter and fill-in anchor at WFRV-TV in Green Bay.

During his time at WFRV, he contributed to coverage of the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey cases and appears in Episodes 4 and 9 of the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer.

His tour of the Midwest continued in Michigan, where he worked as a reporter and anchor. That work included accountability and investigative reporting, highlighted by a story that drew national attention after revealing a $2-million lottery winner was still receiving food assistance benefits.

In April 2013, Bill returned to Wisconsin to join WDJT-TV. After years of visiting Milwaukee, he fell in love with the city at his first Locust Street Festival and now proudly lives on Milwaukee’s East Side.

Bill’s work has been recognized with a Regional Emmy Award, presented by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in December 2022. The award honored outstanding achievement in news gathering for a lifestyle story centered on troublesome turkeys in Wauwatosa.

He is also actively involved in community-focused reporting partnerships and has worked closely with the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation. What began with coverage of a single fundraising golf tournament grew into years of collaboration on charitable events and public-interest stories across Wisconsin. In recognition of that work, Bill received the foundation’s first-ever Media Award in 2021.

Bill comes from a divided football household—his mother a Vikings fan, his father a Packers fan—and avoids the conflict by cheering for the Bucks and Brewers.

Outside the newsroom, Bill enjoys local music, pickleball—where he earned the title of 2025 Summerfest Celebrity Pickleball Champion—and spending time with Boo, an aspiring dog model.

Bill welcomes story ideas and viewer feedback. He can be reached at [email protected], on Instagram, X (Twitter), or on Facebook.

Bill Walsh, Anchor

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