[3] The station produces less news content during the week than its competitors (24 hours, compared to thirty for WGRZ and forty for WIVB), is the only one in the market that does not produce a 10 p.m. newscast, nor does it produce a weekend morning newscast, while the other two stations in the market have both. My co-Anchors were Mary Robb, Vicki Yates Orr, Patrice King Brown, and Brenda Waters. Currently in field operations for Ford Division Marketing and Sales at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI. I am now Chair of Communication at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.. KEN HAWK I was the GM/PD/morning DJ at WKPA New Kensington in its waning days for 2 years before being sold to WPXI-TV reporter Loran Mann in 1992. Had the opportunity to work with the likes of Jimmy Roach, Chris DeCarlo, and Kevin Benson just to name a few. From there she moved to Washington, D.C., where she was a reporter and fill-in anchor at WJLA-TV, the ABC station from 1985-1988. Tom moved to WWSW-FM/AM in 1982 as their Production/Swing Man for both stations. As a morning news anchor, Katie and and the morning team work together to bring you the latest breaking news, let you know what happened overnight, and give you everything you need to start your day. She left Channel 7 three years ago for a full-time anchoring job at WROC-TV (Channel 8) in Rochester. WPNT and WTAE, works at WKBW-TV/Buffalo. The station had news operations from its beginning, but ceased broadcasting a 6 p.m. news in fall 1965 due to a mass exodus of viewers to WBEN-TV.[2]. SUSAN (BROZEK) SCOTT Former WTAE-TV (1988 1994) General Assignment Reporter, and Westmoreland County Bureau Chief. TERRY LEE of all the requests as to the whereabouts of a local personality PBRTV ever had, Terry Lee Trunzo was the most frequent. [1][2] Shortly before leaving WSVN, Daniels was caught on the air telling a producer "You suck!" JON SUMMERS formerly with KQV, WPNT and WTAE, works at WKBW-TV/Buffalo. Rowe and her husband, Dan Greene, welcomed a daughter, Phoebe, in mid-September. Later returned to his home state of Connecticut. HARRY WEST KQV morning man in the 70s, is semi-retired and works part-time at a station in Scranton, PA. JIM WHITE formerly of KDKA and WJAS, is now retired after many years at KMOX St. Louis. Kelly returned to Honolulu for one year program KKUA and then returned to Philadelphia in 1987 to do mornings at WIOQ. In late 1993, the Granite Broadcasting Corporation acquired a large minority (45 percent) stake in WKBW-TV from Queen City Broadcasting. In 1985, he joined Hill and Knowlton public relations, then worked for a Tampa-based investment firms Washington office. Pittsburgh is my hometown. DON BOMBARD formerly with WKTQ (13Q 1320 AM) was on WCBS-FM in New York City for many years as Bob Shannon. ', Many Bills fans stumped by identity of social media influencer who announced third-round pick, Bills' draft grades from Buffalo News writers show hits and misses, Ex-Sabres defenseman Christian Ehrhoff, on the payroll through 2027-28, comes out of retirement to play in Germany, Nicholas D'Angelo pleads guilty to 8 felonies in rape case, Departure of 5 UB women's basketball commits raises eyebrows among coaches, analysts, Erik Brady: 20 years later, Drew Rosenhaus recounts how he fooled the Bills into drafting Willis McGahee, Mark Gaughan: Buffalo Bills' winners and losers after 2023 NFL draft, Alan Pergament: JP starts on WECK Monday after all; Jennifer Stanonis rejoins WGRZ-TV, Seneca Nation plans to bid for McKinley Mall, Former waitress sentenced to 2 to 5 years in prison in $50,000 lottery scheme, Bills trade up in first round, select Utah tight end Dalton Kincaid at No. He would later return to the airwaves at WJAS for a time. Keith Radford - joined 1987, Eyewitness News at 5, 5:30, 6 & 11 p.m. Joanna Pasceri - joined 1993, Eyewitness News at 5, 6 & 11 p.m. Patrick Taney - joined 2007, Eyewitness News This Morning. In mid-1993, Daniels and Joan Lovett began anchoring the station's new noon newscast. Also worked at WWCH-AM/WCCR-FM, Clarion, and WASP-AM, Brownsville. Newsman Irv Weinstein,. Then he was atKAAM-AM 770in Dallas. His career in broadcasting began in 1974 near Nashville, TN, and he has since worked at television stations in Mobile, Nashville, Pittsburgh, as well as previously in the Little Rock television market from 1987 to 1993. JEFF GILBERT - former WEEP/WDSY News Director/Anchor, . 99.3 is one, and 105.7 is also out of Mexico, slamming across the border like you wouldnt believe. Since 2008, Keith has been Regional SVP Programming/Brand Coordinator at iHeartMedia in Cleveland. Bret Buganski. MIKE STONE former weatherman at WTAE-4 moved on to WKYC-3 Cleveland doing weather for the weekday evening newscasts. Graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington in 2002and worked swing & fill-in at the Bob & Tom flagship in Indy WFBQ Q95 till Pennsylvania called us back home in 2004. Well LYNN HINDS Not WDVE, ever. [] Where are they now? The site's accuracy has suffered and is often outdated. Retired. JIM ROOKER former Pirates announcer, owns a restaurant-bar in Ambridge, PA called Rooks East Side Saloon. Earlier in his career he did some TV and even worked on the movie JAWS. Reporter/News Director at WTAE-Radio 1989-1996. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Left broadcasting to go into a home-based operation. Following that he wasthe morning host at CHWO-AM 740 in Toronto, Ontario. 30 years in TV news was great fun. Buffalo disc jockey Kevin O'Connell replaced weatherman Ken Philips. Also the voice ofwww.webjhn.comand can be found atwww.jjsolomon.net. Katie is an Amherst native who now lives in Buffalo. E-mail:davemason@clearchannel.com. Since leaving television, I have become a writer, contributing weekly columns to the Tribune-Review, the Washington Observer-Reporter and the Greenwich Time. He was president of Harrington & Mitchell Advertising, Inc. for nine years. have contended this was due to Canadian viewers' attitudes that local Toronto TV news was "staid" and "boring" as contrasted with WKBW's "tabloid" and "sensational" style of production, with American TV stations approaching local news coverage as a "product" rather than a "public service," as is Canada's tradition. Phoebe Greene, daughter of 7 Eyewitness News anchor Ashley Rowe and her husband, Daniel Greene, arrived at 3:59 a.m. Monday, September 13, weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces. A terrific job, learned a lot, had tons fof fun, and the fantastic opportunity to work with folks like Jack Bogut, OBrien & Garry, Jim Quinn, Larry Richert, Myron Cope (our offices were right next door to each otherYoi! 1996 I put on another country in Baltimore Froggy 100.7. Before arriving in Pittsburgh, he worked in New York on WCBS-FM, Boston at WBZ and Hartford at WDRC. Since January 31, 2008, union employees at that station who work as producers, engineers, reporters, photographers and assignment desk editors, had been working without a contract. Finally after 6 years at KOAA I left TV news for a new path. And now have the chance to put my Duquesne University Environmental Science and Management Graduate Degree to work. Pallan passed away in Pittsburgh at the age of 83 in early 2007. WKBW was originally intended to be an independent station. The station also relies more on photojournalists than its competitors, and as a result, it has fewer general assignment reporters. I came up a few votes short and now I runRon Klink and Associates, a government relations firm, with offices in Pittsburgh and Washington DC. RON KLINK I worked at stations in Latrobe and Jeannette in the 1970s. You can often catch her out with her husband Paul and giant (but so lovable) dog Bandit! Editors Note: A while back we had it listed that Lynn worked at WDVE. Susan Banks, former WKBW anchor. A staple of its morning programing for many years was Dialing for Dollars, which later became AM Buffalo after the Dialing for Dollars franchise was discontinued. Talks were ongoing between NABET Local 25 and the management at WKBW-TV, though recent contract offers have been rejected. Join your friends who have ordered stylish PBRTV t-shirts, hoodies, and ball caps! Doris Jones did the weather on Channel 2. . In 1976 I moved to television by joining WTAJ TV in Altoona. A brief retirement from full-time radio and a return to college studies felt like a good thing to do after new ownership and management suggested it. Everyone doing well over here!". Ken Houston - 2004-2006 5:30 anchor 11 p.m. reporter. When WCBS-FM returned to the air in 2007 he returned to the afternoon drive shift but left in 2012 citing health reasons. B.B. After WNRJ imploded, moved out to Indianapolis, IN for a 10 year run as PD/Mornings at AAA formatted WTTS until 2000. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. [4][5] These gains appear to have held as of May 2009, as the station made gains on a struggling WGRZ. ART PALLAN retired to Fort Myers, Florida after working more than 40 years at WWSW and KDKA radio. Outside of work, Katie enjoys staying active. That job was eliminated in 2007 with budget cuts, and I started mornings on experimental Sign On Radio an internet only website for The San Diego Union-Tribune. My parents still live in Ambridge where I grew up and started my radio career at WMBA. (7/9/19), RICH ANTON Born & raised in the Burgh, graduated from North Hills High School and attended Clarion University. JEFF LONG Former news director/anchor for WLTJ-FM (1984-1989) is now senior pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau, MO, the home church of radio icon Rush Limbaugh. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays speech), and began using the Eyewitness Newsname for its 2 a.m. one-minute news brief. Genero's experience as an evening news anchor was minimal, and within months, Leighton quit the station, with Genero being moved to mornings. Ricardo Efrain Thomas Aquino Carballada de Babilon [1] (April 24, 1929 [2] - March 25, 2021), known professionally as Rick Azar, was an American broadcaster who spent 31 years at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York. Anchor-Reporter Madison Carter Exiting WKBW Sales Executive, 1998 . ROXANNE STEIN former WPXI anchor, is an anchor and medical reporter at WPTV, the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla. MIKE STEELE Former middays at 106.7 The Force until AMFM (turned Clear Channel) cluster bought the station and changed to The X at 105.9. was moved to WDVE weekends/swing shifts from 1995 to 2000. Jeff Russo has been anchoring solo at 6 and 11 p.m. while Rowe has been off. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. Im also a techno DJ of some note under the name Dr. In 1974 I started working at WEDO and WIXZ in McKeesport. The station's digital channel is UHF 38. Now at. WKBW streamed its noon newscasts via live video on the Internet, one of the few major network affiliates to offer a video stream. After getting married and going to other markets working in TV, EDYE is now known as E. D. (Donahey) Hill on Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends. Witness). JOHN CROSS economics editor for WIIC/WPXI from late 1980 to mid-1984 left Pittsburgh to return to Washington DC. I miss all those I worked with on radio and TV. Liz Lewin: The former WKBW-TV anchor-reporter, who left the station last summer to become the weekend morning anchor and reporter at WILX-TV in Lansing, Mich., is back in Buffalo. nspence13@cfl.rr.com. American communications consultant and trainer and a former television news anchor, THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE TELEVISION WRITER TOM JICHA TAKES A DAYLONG LOOK AT WHAT VIEWERS WATCH IN SOUTH FLORIDA, https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1995/09/15/1995-09-15__central_park_west__premiere.html, http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4809535-1.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Penny_Daniels&oldid=1139261832, American television reporters and correspondents, Articles with dead external links from March 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with dead external links from February 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Communications consultant and trainer, television news anchor, This page was last edited on 14 February 2023, at 05:59. 7 News WKBW provides 24/7 news coverage on WKBW.com and our mobile app. After serving four terms I was nominated for the U.S. Senate seat in 2000. After many years at 1360 in McKeesport, he left the area for Arizona and Florida before settling in Ohio. Maria Genero, Rich Newberg, and Brian Blessing were the News 4 Weekend Staff for a good part of the 80s. Trunzo passed away at the age of 70 in July 2013. JIM HARRINGTON A man for all seasons on KDKA from 1980 through 1984 and then did mid-days on WTAE from 1984 to 1988. Her availability comes at an ideal time for Channel 7s holiday needs. JOE STARKEY Penguins play-by-play announcer in 1973-74, has been sports director of KGO/San Francisco since 1979 and is also the radio voice of the San Francisco 49ers. 98-year-old Leonard Gaj, better known as "Airborne Lenny," first joined the United States Army in 1943 when he was just 18-years-old. (info needed). Though WKBW has multiplexed its channels in the past, it currently does not do so. Copyright and Notice of Fair UseAll original material on this website is copyright (C) 1998-2022 by Eric O'Brien d/b/a PBRTV. CHUCK BRINKMAN longtime KQV, WTAE and WRRK DJ, left Pittsburgh for KLUV-FM in Dallas where he was afternoon DJ on oldies-formatted KLUV-FM in Dallas as well as PD for a time until the end of 2005. (7/9/19), SHAWN ANDERSON Weekend DJ/sports, WCVI, Connellsville, 1976-77Weekend DJ, WCLG-FM, Morgantown, WV, 1977-81.Evening, later Afternoon DJ/Sports, WJHB, Greensburg, PA, 1981-82. From 2006 to 2007, Channel 7 also produced a sport show called Sportsnite, a nightly sports talk program hosted by WKBW's sports department, that aired weeknights at 7:00 p.m. Returned to Pittsburgh in 1985 as Station Manager/Program Director at WTAE/WHTX (Hearst). Then go home Merkel. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which recently signed on as a sponsor of Buffalo Healthy Livings Community Conversations, dropped. JOHN POISTER PD and Mid day jock at WIXZ /McKeesport when it went country in 1975. [6] Daniels also interviewed infamous criminal Charles Manson in 1989.[7]. Now hes an anchor for Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles. www.voiceimaging.com, JAY MITCHELL WJPA AM/FM Washington, PA, Program Director 1968 1977; WNEU AM Wheeling, WV, Mid-days 1977 1978; WWSW AM/FM Pittsburgh, Evenings 1978 1979; WWSW (3WS) Evenings, 1979 1983; WTAE AM Pittsburgh, Evenings 1983 1987; WWSW (3WS) Pittsburgh, Weekends 2001 2003; 84 Lumber in Eighty Four, PA, PR Director 1987 1989; Harrington & Mitchell, Pittsburgh, VP/Sales 1989 1996; Production Masters, Pittsburgh, SR. DAVE MASON worked at 13Q (WKTQ) 1977-1979Middays and PD (for 6 months) in its near final days as 13Q. We are a 22 year old non-profit, advocacy group for open space, trails, bikeways, greenways and parks. Got flushed from the business in 1990. Then, in 2002, WKBW adopted the slogan "Live, Local, Late-breaking," a slogan used on stations across the country, and started its own local talk show (WNY Live!) From September to November 2008, no Saturday newscasts were produced, and the station again suspended its Saturday 6:00 p.m. newscast in 2010 (though its late newscast now airs after college football). Reporter, first African-American television personality in the Buffalo market. Channel 7 also is adding a reporter, Yoselin Person, to its staff next month. I had the honor and pleasure of working with and knowing some of the greatest radio folks ever (and just great people!!) Became the Program Director in late 83 (again thanks to the Captain) and remained till 89. AM Buffalo still airs today. Equity went bankrupt in 2009, selling off RTN to one of its shareholders by January 2009 (which led to WNGS and other Equity stations dropping the network) and the Equity stations being liquidated, with WNGS sold to Daystar Television Network in April 2009 (the station has since been resold to a local group).
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