Willard Franklin "Bill" Shadel (July 31, 1908 – January 29, 2005) was an American news anchor for CBS Radio and ABC Television.
Shadel assumed direction of the college band and orchestra in 1929, while still a student and then worked as an assistant program manager for the college's radio station, responsible for music presentations that included his performing as a soloist on marimba, saxophone, clarinet, and trombone and him directing bands and choirs for the station.
Shadel began writing for The American Rifleman - a journal of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA).
During his years at CBS, Shadel worked alongside Murrow, Howard K. Smith, Walter Cronkite, and Eric Sevareid.
[4] Each week on WTOP-TV, a local department store sponsored a fashion show; Shadel met and fell in love with one of the models.