ANDY PEARSON (former WTAE anchor/reporter) Andy joined Todays KTHV in 1998 and currently co-anchors the 5, 6, and 10 oclock broadcasts. Byer passed away on October 31, 2018 in Reno, Nevada. According to the stations website, Person was born and raised in Brooklyn, is bilingual and graduated from St. Bonaventure University. He went back to his native New York City as a sports reporter for all-news WCBS-AM. Local News, Weather and Sports in Youngstown, Ohio Local News; Storm Team 27 Forecast; Sports; Contact him atdbowmaninschools@aol.comor visit his websitedennisbowman.net. He went into business for himself in the mid-90s providing communications consulting to organizations as diverse as executive search firms and the United Nations. 7, is a TV station in Buffalo, New York. Merkel by himself. Been at WTOP since 1995. He was the main weatherman for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia from 1983 until his retirement in 2009. From there I went on to do stations in Houston, Texas 610 KILT and Detroit AM 1130 WCXI. Now at. CapCities would serve as WKBW-TV's longest tenured owner, having owned it and its radio sister for 25 years, and the station would reach its peak during Capital Cities' ownership. JIM BRINSON who replaced Randy Waters at WPXI, hosts a morning sports talk show on WNSA in Buffalo. ) has for many years been an internationally known financial guru. 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In 1998 i launched WSOX. Bible . nspence13@cfl.rr.com. In the late 2000s, Lee made a triumphant return to the area at a party in his honor at the McKeesport Palasades to a very happy crowd. DON BOMBARD formerly with WKTQ (13Q 1320 AM) was on WCBS-FM in New York City for many years as Bob Shannon. 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. In September 1994, Daniels left WBBM to join A Current Affair as a New York -based weekday host. BOB DECARLO KQV morning man in the 1970s, is the program director and morning personality at B-95 in Panama City, Fla. VINCE DELISI a Duquesne University graduate who worked at KDKA-TV and WTAE Radio. He is now a personal injury attorney and still occasionally appears on, Maria Genero, co-anchor of 5 p.m. Newscasts (20012004). Oldies Kool moved to 99.3 in 2003and was gone by fall 2005, when I became morning news co-host on KOGO (AM 600). When WCBS-FM returned to the air in 2007 he returned to the afternoon drive shift but left in 2012 citing health reasons. Then I became PD and Promotions Director at 1160 WCCS in Indiana, PA acquired in 2002 by Renda Broadcasting with new sister (and former employer) WLCY Blairsville. During that time I filled in on several occasions for Spencer Christian on Good Morning America., In 2003 I left big market Tv for Colorado Springs to be closer to my sisters family. When the sale of the Buffalo Bills was made official in New York City, Katie was there to cover the team changing hands. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). He was most recently the PD/OM of suburban Pittsburgh stations 620 KHB and 770 KFB, owned by Broadcast Communications, Inc. (7/9/19), DON JEFFERSON host of morning radio as Banana Don at WBZZ, WZPT and WSHH. (Pittsburgh had big time radio war for black listeners during the late 60s and early 70s. Joe DeStio at WEAE says I am continuing my tour of Pittsburgh Radio and TV stations. Am now manager for Visions Production, a multi-media production company based here in Pittsburgh, producing live events and film/video/interactive. Now at, Don Polec- feature/funny man for the station in the 1980s, before leaving for, Don Postles - former co-anchor with Irv Weinstein, now the head anchor of rival, Luke Moretti - anchor, 1998-2001 - Now an investigative reporter at, John Kosich - anchor of "Good Morning Western New York" - 1990s. Later she was a Senior Producer in Local Programming at WPXI-TV where she was producer of documentaries, commercials, hour shows, and major, live events, including The Celebrate the Season Parade, presented by Macys & WPXI. 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. EDYE TARBOX - former WPXI anchor partnered with Mike Hambrick. [1]. WKBW-TV signs off on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a half hour from 4 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.; there is no station info, but the American and Canadian national anthems are played before and after the test pattern, like Sinclair-owned stations WUTV and WNYO. Daniels currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her two children. The staff at WKBW congratulates Ashley and Dan and their family on Phoebe's arrival. MIKE BOGUSLOWSKI (Bogey) WPXIs former consumer reporter who was always in YOUR (points finger) corner, was last seen in the corner of viewers at KCBS TV 2. Now she anchors from 2-5 p.m. and 8 p.m. She also re-launched her talk show as Spotlight New Jersey a show which focuses on notable people of all ages. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays WKBW streamed its noon newscasts via live video on the Internet, one of the few major network affiliates to offer a video stream. SUSAN (BROZEK) SCOTT Former WTAE-TV (1988 1994) General Assignment Reporter, and Westmoreland County Bureau Chief. (see www.joeleraab.com) for more details. He passed away in March of 2021 at the age of 91. . WNGS was not available on satellite providers during Sportsnite's run, thus limiting the show's audience. Buffalo ABC affiliate WKBW said it's losing three on-air talent within the next month. Today, Kelly remains active as a composer of electronic music (see www.kellydavid.com) , does business development for Epiq Systems, Inc. and holds down a weekend show at the CBS oldies station, KOOL105 for Keith Abrams, another former Pittsburgh broadcaster. During her 15 years behind the microphone, Jennifer served as past president of the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Associations board of directors and was a part of two news teams who won the PAPBAs Joe Snyder Award for outstanding news service. SHAWN YANCY Former WTAE-TV Reporter and Anchor. Until 2000, lottery drawings were shown on WKBW-TV (they have since moved to WGRZ). 4's Abby Fridmann turns down new contract, becomes latest 'Wake Up!' Earlier in his career he did some TV and even worked on the movie JAWS. Read bios of our anchors and reporters. Now an instructor for the Austin campus of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and Mix 94.7 weekender. Left broadcasting to go into a home-based operation. Bounced out of now-defunct 1250/WTAE in November, 1997, after 5 months of solo morning effort following Larry OBriens retirement in May, 1997.now happily retired and living in semi-luxury with at least 8 cats in lovely Murrysville, PA. (OBrien would live here too, but he cant afford it.) Later did reports on the City Hall beat for WJW-TV in Cleveland. He also worked for the legendary Buzzard (WMMS), Q-104, WGAR, Cleveland, and Pirate Radio WYNF, Tampa Bay, Florida (when it was CBS owned & operated), all the while continuing to develop the creative aspects of his company. Preliminary results have been promising: due to this, and in part due to a cable coverage issue with WIVB, WKBW's newscasts have climbed back to a strong second place, behind WGRZ. He is the voice of Air Force Academy football and says another Western New York product, Linda Benzil, former WKBW announcer, works as an anchor-reporter at KUSA. WKBW Anchor Keith Radford's Final Broadcast Set For June 30 TVSpy | June 9, 2021 | 6:52 am EDT by Kevin Eck NextGen TV Debuts On Five Buffalo Stations TVNewsCheck | March 19, 2021 | 7:38 am EDT by Mark K. Miller WKBW, WGRZ, WUTV, WIVB and WNYO are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology. WKBW-TV. Went crosstown to 96.1 HitRadio 96 WHTX with Captain ShowBiz & Cary Pall in 1983 for PM Drive. 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. MIKE STONE former weatherman at WTAE-4 moved on to WKYC-3 Cleveland doing weather for the weekday evening newscasts. Was, at one time, mayor of Los Gatos, California. Weinstein was WKBW-TV's main anchor from 1964 until his retirement on New Year's Eve 1998, doubling as news director for most of that time. I am now Chair of Communication at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.. He spent time at Washingtons WJLA 7 and is now news director at WTAP-TV in Parkersburg, WV. 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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. "I'm sorry I said it," Daniels later said, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 22, 1993. [7] The two sides, after significant acrimony and a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, came to an agreement on March 4, 2011.[8]. Most recently heard on XM Radio in Washington DC. He was recruited in 1984 by 92Q, Cleveland, Ohio. WGRZ-TV followed suit with Daybreak in 1996. Merkel and Cris. Left Channel 4 in 2001 to become an anchor at Washington, D.C. Fox Affiliate WTTG Channel 5. Jean joined WKBW in 1990. Jim can be reached atjim@harringtonproductions.com.www.harringtonproductions.com. The two-time AIR award winner for Best Traffic Reporter in Pittsburgh is now a dialysis technician in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. EDYE TARBOX former WPXI anchor partnered with Mike Hambrick. 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]. Long time anchors have either been dismissed or seen significant pay cuts. He's a native of Erie, Pennsylvania and has a familial connection to Western New York. WENDY KING co-host of KDKAs Party Line with her late husband Ed, remained in the area after his death. (modified from the original WKBW AM station slogan: WKBW was originally intended to be an independent station. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. . Currently Angie is a freelance journalist and media consultant in Lutz, Florida. Eyewitness News had been the most-watched newscast in the Buffalo market for many years, and was at times even more popular in the Toronto market than local Toronto news., June 2010 Some critics[who?] Later she was at KRXA-AM in Monterey, CA. Shift changes at 3WS elminated my shift there- it broke my heart, but thats the business. He also does voice acting for video games and is heard as one of the play-by-play voices in Segas NFL game. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Following that he wasthe morning host at CHWO-AM 740 in Toronto, Ontario. Left in 1987.to program WLAC-FM in Nashville. Maria Genero, Rich Newberg, and Brian Blessing were the News 4 Weekend Staff for a good part of the 80s. Presently working at the Butler County Radio Network WISR, WBUT & WLER. [3] WKBW-TV career Rick Azar began his career at WHLD radio in Niagara Falls in the early 1950s. Katie is a two-time Emmy award winner for the morning show's coverage on severe summer weather in 2018, and for race-related issues in the City of Buffalo in 2020. Please subscribe to continue reading. For five years, he was a national commercial voice for SEARS. 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WKBW, through at least the early 2000s, operated the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service on its second audio program. The show went off the air in 1996. Remembering the legacy of former 7 Eyewitness News anchor Jean Hill Buffalo's Her most recent role was vice president and senior compliance officer at M&T Bank. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays LARRY OBRIEN former partner in the OBrien and Garry Show on WTAE, WHTX and WMXP, is retired in Hilton Head, S.C. (A reminder that Larry is no relation to your PBRTV Owner/Editor!). He is an avid bike rider, certified private pilot, and a 1st Lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol and a new Daddy. The site's accuracy has suffered and is often outdated. Known On October 22, 2008, WKBW news anchors launched what has been described as the "Big Tease,"[3] an announcement that an ostensibly top-secret "major change" was coming; although only a few of the senior members of the staff knew about the change, it was widely predicted to be a revival of the Eyewitness Newsname and classic theme. Andy Parker, Meteorologist, Good Morning WNY, Eyewitness News (19922000). Since leaving television, I have become a writer, contributing weekly columns to the Tribune-Review, the Washington Observer-Reporter and the Greenwich Time. The station's digital channel is UHF 38. It also reintroduced the theme for the introduction to its 11:00 newscasts on September 19, 2008 (along with the restoration of the Do you know where your children are? Her former husband, Rick Leventhal, was an on-air reporter for WSVN-TV in Miami and WFLD-TV in Chicago while Daniels was working in those cities. Contact Us: PBRTV Eric O'Brien PO Box 101345 Pittsburgh PA 15237 info@pbrtv.com Your Forecast [], [] Where are they now? 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. He can be reached by e-mail at: tomdanielsprod@yahoo.com, SUSAN DAVIES After 8 years in Pgh (through 1995) [at WTAE] I spent 8 years in Cleveland it WEWS as an environment reporter/weekend weather anchor. He is now the main anchor at KPSP-TV (CBS affiliate) in Palm Springs California. Find out more about our newscasts, our personalities, our mobile apps, our newsletters and more - all in one place. More recently, it was the first to offer RSS feeds and podcasts. Madison Carter, the former WKBW-TV (Channel 7) anchor-reporter, has been a significant part of WGRZ-TV's (Channel 2) coverage. CLARKE INGRAM air talent at 96KX, WHTX and B-94, went on to become Operations Manager of KZZP in Phoenix, Arizona and PD of co-owned KRQQ in Tucson, Arizona, making it the highest-rated Top 40 station in the nation. NEAL SPENCE I am now retired and living in Daytona Beach, Florida and married to my high school sweetheart, Jan. LINDA CARSON former sports and weather person at KDKA-TV, is an anchor/reporter at WWSB-TV, the ABC affiliate in Sarasota, Fla. (7/9/19), TERRY CAYWOOD After eight years at WDVE I went to 96.1 FM to work with the infamous Capt Showbiz Ted Atkins on his daring CHR/AOR cross-formatted 96KXa very interesting experiment, though perhaps misguided(?). In addition, he is the long-time meteorologist for ABC affiliateWBRZ-TV. It even used Move Closer to Your World, the theme song made famous by WPVI (though it was known by the station as The Eyewitness News Theme). Say "Good Morning Buffalo" with Katie, Ed and Aaron every morning! Its transmitter is located at 8909 Center Street in Colden, New York. I worked with some of the best. Beginning in 2000, the station began making some questionable moves that arguably began its fall to the bottom. Still keeping a hand in radio while practicing law in Washington, DC, Kelly did weekends and swing at WAVA and Q107. He was let go in the abrupt format change in June 2005 and is now doing Internet broadcasting and some shows for WLNG on Long Island. Heck, we even gave Dennis Miller his first shot opening up for Pittsburgh Today. WKBW currently carries comparatively little syndicated programming, instead opting for the AM Buffalo programs and infomercials. Pellegrino and Summers were forced to quit their other news positions after AM Buffalo became a production of the station's sales department, though Summers has since resumed announcing certain news elements. Though WKBW has multiplexed its channels in the past, it currently does not do so. In mid-1993, Daniels and Joan Lovett began anchoring the station's new noon newscast. His new book, STRIKE AT THE GIANT, will be released soon. Within 9 months it became a volunteer only operation but I was rescued by Broadcast Company of the Americas who decided that simulcasting their Sports programming from XPRS-AM was better served by (ta daaa) Oldies on 105.7 now christened The Walrus. I did work for KQV and WTAE radio. Lia Lando, who left Channel 7 in June 2018 after being the anchor of its Sunday newscasts for about a year, will be a temporary fill-in on the anchor desk. JIM HARRINGTON A man for all seasons on KDKA from 1980 through 1984 and then did mid-days on WTAE from 1984 to 1988. Promoted to Marketing Director for both 1250/WTAE and better-focused Variety 96. Since 1997, my family and I divide our time between homes in Ben Avon, PA and Greenwich, Connecticut. Editors Note: A while back we had it listed that Lynn worked at WDVE.
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