Dan Ponce (born December 7, 1976, in Denver, Colorado) is an American television journalist for WGN-TV, radio talk show host on WLS/890[1] and founder of the a cappella group Straight No Chaser.
[2] Ponce's TV career began in 2005 when he was hired at WILX-TV in Lansing, Michigan, as a reporter and weekend anchor.
In 2006, Dan joined ABC-owned WLS-TV (channel 7) in Chicago as a general assignment reporter.
[3] In 2009, after Straight No Chaser's album "Holiday Spirits" went to #1 on iTunes and Amazon, Ponce decided to leave ABC and join the group full-time.
Ponce later came back to a TV career and was hired by WGN-TV {Channel 9}.