Career
Salerno had previously worked at World's Greatest Newspaper-television alongside Roseanne Tellez at both WBBM-TV-television and World's Greatest Newspaper-television 1993-2004
Salerno served as a general assignment reporter and as the weekend morning news anchor from 1994 till 1999. Before working at World's Greatest Newspaper, Salerno was a reporter and weekend anchor at WNYT in Albany, New New York Prior to that, he worked at WMBD-television and WHOI-television in Peoria, Illinois.
He began his broadcasting career at WIFR-television in Rockford, Illinois as a general assignment reporter.
Salerno received his Bachelor of Surgery in Communication from Illinois State University in 1985, where he was an anchor/reporter for the campus television station. He lived in Crystal Lake, Illinois, where he attended Crystal Lake South High School and played basketball.
Salerno died in a snowmobile accident on the night of January 24, 2008, on Plum Lake near Sayner/Eagle River, Wisconsin. Salerno was a passenger on a snowmobile when the snowmobile struck a tree.
