American television correspondent and news analyst
William Emmett "Bill" Ryan III[1] (April 4, 1926–February 18, 1997)[2] was an American broadcast
journalist with the
NBC television network and its owned-and-operated local station
WNBC-TV in
New York City for 26 years. He served for a year (1970-1971) as
news anchor at
WOR-TV. Ryan was also co-anchor of the Ralph & Ryan radio morning show on
WMCA from 1981 to 1985.