Death of recent KGAN news director Tedd O'Connell

From WISC-TV:

MADISON, Wis. -- Former WISC-TV anchor Tedd O'Connell passed away on Monday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.O'Connell died at 11:55 a.m. He had recently been living in the Green Bay area. ...In the years since O'Connell left Madison, he worked as news director at TV stations in Maryland,

O'Connell died at 11:55 a.m. He had recently been living in the Green Bay area. ...

In the years since O'Connell left Madison, he worked as news director at TV stations in Maryland, Iowa and Montana. ...

The Green Bay Press Gazette reports that O'Connell "had been diagnosed with cancer earlier this summer."

Tedd O'Connell was quoted for an October 2007 Gazette article about Barack Obama and the flag pin:

Along with politicians, television news anchors wearing flag pins became a common sight after the attacks. But in the local market, anchors don't usually wear lapel pins."We've never really given it any thought," said

"We've never really given it any thought," said Tedd O'Connell, news director at KGAN (Channel 2). "I would hope if somebody wanted to stick a lapel pin on that said `Hillary in '08,' they'd check with me." ...