RANDY WATERS former sports anchor and reporter at WPXI, now holds that position with WXIA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta. 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 an avid bike rider, certified private pilot, and a 1st Lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol and a new Daddy. On October 27 at 5:00 a.m., the name Eyewitness News permanently returned to the newscasts, with Laura Gray, Channel 7's reporter, who was filling in that day for regular Morning and Noon anchor Bridget Blythe, and Move Closer to Your World was fully restored to all of the station's newscasts. Im now Director of FM Programming for Susquehanna Radio in York, Lancaster, Harrisburg PA. BEVERLY BYER WPXI news anchor, was an anchor at KION-TV, the CBS station in Salinas, California. Anchor-Reporter Madison Carter Exiting WKBW 99.3 is one, and 105.7 is also out of Mexico, slamming across the border like you wouldnt believe. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) Jean Hill, a familiar face to Channel 7 viewers for more than a decade, died of cancer Monday at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Institute. In late 1993, the Granite Broadcasting Corporation acquired a large minority (45 percent) stake in WKBW-TV from Queen City Broadcasting. After WNRJ imploded, moved out to Indianapolis, IN for a 10 year run as PD/Mornings at AAA formatted WTTS until 2000. 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. (info needed), TRISH BEATTY who held the afternoon shift at KDKA from 1977 through the end of its run as a music station, was recently director of development at the Mountain Playhouse in Jennerstown, Pa. (info needed). The staff at WKBW congratulates Ashley and Dan and their family on Phoebe's arrival. He previously worked with the Buffalo-based Empire Sports Network and did play-by-play for the now defunct Buffalo Destroyers Arena Football. Currently in advertising. 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. Kelly and his morning partner, Dan Cooke, moved to Philadelphia in 1983 to do mornings for Coxs WSSH (which became Z106). [1][2] Shortly before leaving WSVN, Daniels was caught on the air telling a producer "You suck!" After getting married and going to other markets working in TV, EDYE is now known as E. D. (Donahey) Hill on Fox News Channels Fox and Friends. 4's Abby Fridmann turns down new contract, becomes latest 'Wake Up!' WNGS was not available on satellite providers during Sportsnite's run, thus limiting the show's audience. Horne passed away suddenly in December 2016. (7/9/19), BOB CERMINARA Former reporter at WJAS, WEDO and KQV. wkbw.com. speech), and began using the Eyewitness Newsname for its 2 a.m. one-minute news brief. MARGARET SHORTRIDGE native Pittsburgher and former WPXI weekend anchor, Margaret made her way out to the West Coast soon after getting married and also spent time as the medical reporter at Fox affiliate WFLD-TV in Chicago. Navigating around PBRTV.comThe Main Site PBRTV Pittsburgh Radio and Television ONLINESmooth, Relaxing and Easy A music program heard on various online outlets.Shakin not Stirred A blog about the webmasters life with Parkinsons Disease. Sales Executive, 1998 . Now an instructor for the Austin campus of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and Mix 94.7 weekender. Sheriff: Washington County, Va. church vandalized . I still voicetrack for Clear Channels KKFG in Farmington, NM, and do TV work in San Diego for KUSI-TV, KPBS-TV and XETV. Learn more about the WKBN news team. Copyright and Notice of Fair UseAll original material on this website is copyright (C) 1998-2022 by Eric O'Brien d/b/a PBRTV. Phoebe Greene, daughter of 7 Eyewitness News anchor Ashley Rowe and her husband, Daniel. In 1985, he joined Hill and Knowlton public relations, then worked for a Tampa-based investment firms Washington office. 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. Gil is retired and living on Anna Maria Island in Florida. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. In San Diego, many U.S. companies lease Mexican signals. (info needed), KEITH ABRAMS Worked weekends for Joel Raab, Alan Furst and Barry Mardit at WEEP-AM while attending Clarion and was then hired by Bobby Christian for swing on the original 96KX in 1982 (which rocked, cause I wanted to BE Suitcase Simpson!). Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 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. Currently Director of Coverage and Content at WPXI-TV. BARRY KAYE former DJ at WJAS in the 50s known by locals as the DJ in whose basement The Del Vikings were first recorded (a couple guys even had to crawl into a closet! In 1987 he helped turn around a company that was acquired by GE Capital Mortgage Corporation, where he was vice president, corporate communications. [4][5] These gains appear to have held as of May 2009, as the station made gains on a struggling WGRZ. Currently in his bag of voicetracking assignments is evenings at WWSW in Pittsburgh. The station's morning show, the first in Western New York, began in 1989. (modified from the original WKBW AM station slogan: Living World War II Veteran honored after donating P.O.W Diary to National Museum. WKBW also updated its set and graphics in October 2010 (by inserting a blue background behind the studio set) ahead of a bigger set overhaul as part of the station's plan to convert its newscasts to upconverted SD. 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. JACK SALVATORE Left WTAE to head back to Phoenix, where I was the noon anchor and consumer advocate. Kelly returned to Honolulu for one year program KKUA and then returned to Philadelphia in 1987 to do mornings at WIOQ. 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. As of 9/10/2004, I am J.J. on KISS 101.7 WJKS WILMINGTON, DE a QC Communications Station. Since has moved to Austin, Texas and was afternoon drive for heritage rock station 93.7 KLBJ until September 2006. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Since 1997, my family and I divide our time between homes in Ben Avon, PA and Greenwich, Connecticut. [4], In 1998, Daniels joined KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington. Wonder what hed say today?? Buffalo ABC affiliate WKBW said it's losing three on-air talent within the next month. (7/9/19). From 2006 to April 2009, WKBW operated WNGS, a station owned by Equity Media Holdings, for most of that time under Equity's then-in-house network Retro Television Network. JIM HARRINGTON A man for all seasons on KDKA from 1980 through 1984 and then did mid-days on WTAE from 1984 to 1988. WKBW-TV turned-off its analog transmitter on June 12, 2009. 30 years in TV news was great fun. Until 2000, lottery drawings were shown on WKBW-TV (they have since moved to WGRZ). The information on this page is not up to date. Moved to Honolulu in 1981 and did evenings at KIKI and then mornings at 93FMQ. Then go home Merkel. In April 1993, Daniels joined WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois as an anchor and reporter. Penny Daniels is an American communications consultant and trainer and a former television news anchor who once hosted the TV show A Current Affair. Then to PD of WBUF, Buffalo, WKRC/WKRQ/WWNK/WLW/WSAI/WCKY and WAZU Cincinnati. Jim returned to Pittsburgh in 2005 as morning traffic reporter for KDKA/WPCW-TV. In addition, its noon newscast also features Mr. Food. She graduated from Kent State University in Ohio, and completed her MBA at Canisius College while working full-time as a reporter. JENNIFER LUNT Was A-J Taylor at KQV and Metro Networks in the late 1990s and is taking a break from broadcasting. (December, 2009). PBRTV understands hes living in the Pittsburgh area awaiting a new radio opportunity. Jeff Russo has been anchoring solo at 6 and 11 p.m. while Rowe has been off. WKBW, although it has retreated back to third when WIVB returned to cable, has kept many of those viewers gained during the cable dispute and has made the Buffalo ratings race a much closer three-way race again, with only the station's morning newscast still in distant third. May 1, 2023 at 5:57 PM. Jean joined WKBW in 1990. Moved to evenings and APD/MD when Hitradio 96/WHTX was born (by the good Captain Showbiz!). Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. His mother spent part of her childhood here, according to the press release from WKBW-TV. Melanie Pritchard- anchor and reporter, 1997-2008. WGRZ-TV followed suit with Daybreak in 1996. Kendra Eaglin - joined 2010, Eyewitness News Weekend, Jeff Russo - joined 2004, sports director, Shawn Stepner - joined 2007, weekend sports & host of Sunday Sports Final, Aaron Mentkowski - joined 2000, Meteorologist, Weekdays at 5, 6 & 11 (, Jennifer Stanonis - joined 2005, weather anchor, Eyewitness News this Weekend at 6 & 11 (fill-in mornings), Dave Cash - weather "anchor," occasional fill-in evenings, Elizabeth Carey - joined 1999 (business, by agreement with, John Borsa - joined 2003 (occasional fill-in anchor), Jason Gruenauer- joined 2010 (also fill-in sports), Adam Francis- photojournalist and general assignment reporter, Dave Cash - weekday mornings/fill-in weather, Steve Schnepf - fill-in weeknights & mornings, Linda Pellegrino, joined station prior to 1990, also previously a weather anchor, Jon Summers, joined station prior to 1983, previously the station's announcer), Jon Summers - commercials, 1983 to present (also newscasts from 1983 to 2003). Also the voice ofwww.webjhn.comand can be found atwww.jjsolomon.net. The station also relies more on photojournalists than its competitors, and as a result, it has fewer general assignment reporters. We are a 22 year old non-profit, advocacy group for open space, trails, bikeways, greenways and parks. Banks' sudden retirement from WKBW came just two days after an announcement was made that the station's owner, Granite Broadcasting, had filed for bankruptcy protection. TERRY MCGOVERN who worked at KDKA radio and TV from 1965-69, lives in Marin County, California and teaches acting and voice. BOBBY BENNETT Former morning jock at WZUM (1967-68). 7, is a TV station in Buffalo, New York. ET on WNGS. Fridmann has been the permanent Wake Up! co-anchor alongside Chris Horvatits since December. WKBW anchor Ashley Rowe is leaving the station next month to "focus on being a full-time mom.". No relation to Rick Azar. 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. Read bios of our anchors and reporters. Maria Genero, Rich Newberg, and Brian Blessing were the News 4 Weekend Staff for a good part of the 80s. Churchill sold the WKBW stations to Capital Cities Broadcasting (which later became Capital Cities Communications) in 1961. JIM BRINSON who replaced Randy Waters at WPXI, hosts a morning sports talk show on WNSA in Buffalo. (info needed). Witness). (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. Station logos are incorporated for illustrative purposes only and are incorporated under the fair use provisions of U.S. 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. On demand video of newscasts is available. ET before moving up to 5:30 a.m. in 1996. 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. 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?] Headquartered out of Clear Channel San Diego, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive 92123. According to WKBW-TV, Hill died on Monday after a . He is a member of the national Television Critics Association. Bible . In a text, Rowe wrote she is set to return in the beginning of January. 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. For five years, he was a national commercial voice for SEARS. Previously, sports/news anchor Associated Press Radio Network, DC (87-94) Sports Director, Tennessee Radio Network (85-86) (7/9/19), DAVE ANTHONY I worked from 1979 to 1986 at WEEP/WDSY. Through the years, WKBW-TV has served a mix of local programming, and news that serves the Western New York community, with many viewers in Southern Ontario as well. The NewsCenter 2 Team of Molly McCoy, Rich Kellman, Ed Kilgore, and Barry Lillis The News Four Team of the late 70's. Top row: Gary Gunther, Larry Hunter, Marie Rice, Allen Costantini. Currently Communications officer for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. He confirms here that he NEVER worked at WDVE! B.B. He would later return to the airwaves at WJAS for a time. She. (In previous years, each newscast was delayed approximately one hour in the event of football games.). Recently he did some swing work on 3WS and then mornings on WWVA. The plots of Jims thrillers are based in Pittsburgh. My co-Anchors were Mary Robb, Vicki Yates Orr, Patrice King Brown, and Brenda Waters. He is now at WEWS-TV in Cleveland. Channel 7 also is adding a reporter, Yoselin Person, to its staff next month. After a 3 year stint as the Top Teen Night Jock in the Rockn Roll Capitol, he returned to Drive-Time as Afternoon Personality for pioneer Classic Rock station, WNCX, Cleveland. Now he owns and instructs at a yoga center in the same city. The magazine program only ran from 1989-1990, but, according to local ratings, was hugely popular in Miami where it was beating the famous A Current Affair, which was then-anchored by Maury Povich and at the time aired on competing station WCIX-TV (now WFOR-TV). WKBW has been proactive in its ventures on the Internet. ALAN CUTLER formerly with KDKA radio and TV, is a motivational speaker based in Lexington, KY. Visit his website atwww.alancutler.com. RON LEWIS Former Metro Networks traffic reporter and WEAE sports anchor. WKBW, through at least the early 2000s, operated the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service on its second audio program. 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. 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. Find out more about them, like where they're from and what they like to do when not on TV. She assisted Channel 2 rather than her former Buffalo station. SUSAN (BROZEK) SCOTT Former WTAE-TV (1988 1994) General Assignment Reporter, and Westmoreland County Bureau Chief. See all of the 7 News reporters, anchors and meteorologists. Retired. Leventhal now works for Fox News Channel. MIKE HAMBRICK former WPXI anchor and part of the Mike and Edye (Tarbox) team. But this new job is fantastic. 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. Born as Elizabeth Penny Comm, Daniels is a native of Highland Park, Illinois. WKBW decided to adopt a new identity, thus bringing the Eyewitness News era to an end. Byer passed away on October 31, 2018 in Reno, Nevada. DON BOMBARD formerly with WKTQ (13Q 1320 AM) was on WCBS-FM in New York City for many years as Bob Shannon. MIKE STONE former weatherman at WTAE-4 moved on to WKYC-3 Cleveland doing weather for the weekday evening newscasts. 12:41 PM, Sep . In 1976 I moved to television by joining WTAJ TV in Altoona. The station's digital signal remained on channel 38. Almost graduated but was hired as an original B94 jock in May 1981 to do nights. (7/9/19). 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. 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. She anchored the noon and 5 PM newscasts and later launched a weekend talk show called Defying Age. In 2005, Della became the solo anchor for the 5, 6:30, and 10 PM newscasts. ) has for many years been an internationally known financial guru. (7/9/19), DARIETH CHISOLM former WPXI anchor/reporter. Lando also briefly worked as an interim anchor at WIVB-TV (Channel 4) after Lisa Flynn left the station in 2009. Went back into law practice, which I am still doing. KENT DERDIVANIS who was a member of the Pirates broadcast team from 1990-1993. I program both WSOX and A/C WARM 103. Doris Jones did the weather on Channel 2. . My husband is a television producer and we have two small children.. 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(?). Editors Note: A while back we had it listed that Lynn worked at WDVE. More recently, Susan has been the founder and head of Afterschool Buddy. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Barry Mardit, Alan Furst, Keith Abrams and Bill White (now WBT PD) worked for me. In 1974 I started working at WEDO and WIXZ in McKeesport. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays She left Channel 7 three years ago for a full-time anchoring job at WROC-TV (Channel 8) in Rochester. Beginning in 2000, the station began making some questionable moves that arguably began its fall to the bottom. Seated at the Channel 7 news desk with Tom Jolls and Irv Weinstein, Azar made up the longest running anchor team in the history of television, 24 years, beginning in 1965. 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). Join your friends who have ordered stylish PBRTV t-shirts, hoodies, and ball caps! Placed among 10 contestants in the "danger zone" after viewers voted Sunday night, the smiling crooner was not among the two singers chosen Mo. [6] Regularly scheduled programming was, for a time in early 2008, increasingly being replaced by infomercials, mostly prime time network and syndicated programs; although this practice was mostly abandoned prior to the May 2008 sweeps, the station continues to sell this air time to charitable organizations such as Operation Smile, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Billy Graham Crusades. Now hes an anchor for Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles. WIVB: Gabrielle Mediak, Angelica Morrison, Marlee Tuskes, Kaly Lynch, Kelly Khatib, Sarah Minkewicz, meteorologist Stevie Daniels and digital sports reporter Mary Margaret Johnson. Hinds was also known for his work at WTAE-TV as host of AM Pittsburgh with Cathy Milton and Al McDowell. 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. Please subscribe to continue reading. In 1978 I came to KDKA starting as the weekend Weather guy I moved to Anchoring the weekends and doing general assignment reporting on the week days. She'd go on to anchor at Channel 2 and Channel 7 before retiring from TV news 29 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.
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