JEFF GILBERT - former WEEP/WDSY News Director/Anchor, . WKBW - Buffalo Scripps. WGRZ-TV followed suit with Daybreak in 1996. We also run a small restaurant in the French countryside, so I split time between Phoenix and France. Hinds was also known for his work at WTAE-TV as host of AM Pittsburgh with Cathy Milton and Al McDowell. Weinstein was WKBW's main anchor from 1964 until his retirement in 1998, doubling as news director for most of that time. In addition, he is the long-time meteorologist for ABC affiliateWBRZ-TV. Contact Us: PBRTV Eric O'Brien PO Box 101345 Pittsburgh PA 15237 info@pbrtv.com Your Forecast [], [] Where are they now? MIKE STONE former weatherman at WTAE-4 moved on to WKYC-3 Cleveland doing weather for the weekday evening newscasts. Furthermore, WKBW was a source for much of WPVI's on-air talent. Since then Miami, Houston, San Francisco, Washington DC (XM Satellite Radio) and beginning on August 23, 2004, PD of WQCD/New York. Despite the changes to the theme and newscasts, WKBW has fallen in ratings. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Contact him atdbowmaninschools@aol.comor visit his websitedennisbowman.net. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays He was the main weatherman for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia from 1983 until his retirement in 2009. The station was among the first in Western New York to launch a Web site in the mid-1990s. JAN HUTCHINS former weekend sports anchor at WPXI. He confirms here that he NEVER worked at WDVE! When Capital Cities merged with ABC in 1986, it sold WKBW-TV to Queen City Broadcasting, a minority-owned firm, instead of becoming an ABC O&O. BOB DEARBORN who preceded Don Berns on WTAEs afternoon show, and worked at oldies station WJMK Chicago. In 1987 he helped turn around a company that was acquired by GE Capital Mortgage Corporation, where he was vice president, corporate communications. She later returned to WPXI as the late night anchor but left again and eventually started her own company. 1,373 were here. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Daniels was an anchor at WSVN-TV in Miami, where she was the first woman to solo anchor a nationally-syndicated, tabloid-style magazine program Inside Story. He had a few months at WCBS and eventually launched the Just Ask Asa podcast. [1]. Since then, Ive moved to the former WXRB (now WJJJ), then to WTTF Toledo, WPHM Detroit, WIFN Detroit, WMJZ Gaylord, MI before landing back in the Pittsburgh area at WJPA Washington. Fortunately, I am on occasion asked to appear on a network show to do political talk or I am offered the chance to do some radio talk. In mid-1993, Daniels and Joan Lovett began anchoring the station's new noon newscast. Im now Director of FM Programming for Susquehanna Radio in York, Lancaster, Harrisburg PA. 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. TOM DANIELSPittsburghs Native Son, returned to his hometown in late 1980 from an Afternoon Drive radio position in Baltimore, MD to become the Morning Personality for FM97 (WFFM years before it became WRRK.) In 2000, Della was hired by News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. She is expected to be on the air next week. Good Morning Western New York (the show's title from 1989 to 2000 and from 2009 to the present) initially started at 6 a.m. From 1970 until 2003, and from 2008present, WKBW called its news operation "Eyewitness News," and uses that format's iconic circle 7 logo to this day. After Bridget Blythe's departure in October of 2010, the morning show changed its name back to Eyewitness News This Morning with Ginger Geoffery and Patrick Taney. 98-year-old Leonard Gaj, better known as "Airborne Lenny . Bret Buganski. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) 7 Eyewitness News is excited to welcome a new addition to the WKBW family. 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. Ginger Geoffery - joined 2004, Eyewitness News This Morning, Noon. In 1985, he joined Hill and Knowlton public relations, then worked for a Tampa-based investment firms Washington office. Both networks carried by WKBW on its digital subchannels are now carried instead on WGRZ-TV. Left Channel 4 in 2001 to become an anchor at Washington, D.C. Fox Affiliate WTTG Channel 5. (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. He previously worked with the Buffalo-based Empire Sports Network and did play-by-play for the now defunct Buffalo Destroyers Arena Football. KEN MEASE former sports anchor with KDKA-TV and WPXI, moved on to become a sports anchor and producer at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. for 17 years. Steve Boyd - another longtime weekend anchor, left in the 1990s to pursue law. It currently starts at 5 a.m. [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. Living World War II Veteran honored after donating P.O.W Diary to National Museum. 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. Kelly moved to Denver in 1997 to work as an in-house counsel for MCI and did weekends at Alice 106 for Gregg Cassidy until 2001. Witness). Bennett died in September 2015 at age 72. You have permission to edit this article. Im also a techno DJ of some note under the name Dr. I did work for KQV and WTAE radio. During this era, it also reorchestrated the theme with a more futuristic synthesizer-based version. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); ASA AARONS Former WPXI Consumer Advocate. He was president of Harrington & Mitchell Advertising, Inc. for nine years. BLAKE LAWRENCE I was morning man and APD at 96KX (WXKX) in 1977-78 before following PD Bobby Christian to Chicago and WMET. In San Diego, many U.S. companies lease Mexican signals. Now living in Century City, CA, Barry has been the author of numerous books and has hosted many videos. In late 1993, the Granite Broadcasting Corporation acquired a large minority (45 percent) stake in WKBW-TV from Queen City Broadcasting. Now retired. Programmed in Memphis, Charlotte, Seattle in the 90s and moved to Salt Lake to manage a cluster in 1999. 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Following that he wasthe morning host at CHWO-AM 740 in Toronto, Ontario. while in Pittsburgh through the 80s way to many to list! In 1976 I moved to television by joining WTAJ TV in Altoona. BEVERLY BYER WPXI news anchor, was an anchor at KION-TV, the CBS station in Salinas, California. Currently Communications officer for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. When it occurs, only WIVB will continue to broadcast its news in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. He is now a personal injury attorney and still occasionally appears on, Maria Genero, co-anchor of 5 p.m. Newscasts (20012004). He is now at WEWS-TV in Cleveland. Currently in advertising. Later returned to his home state of Connecticut. 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. 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. ), From about 1989 until February 1997, the station identified itself as News Channel 7, but kept the Eyewitness News name for posterity, resulting in rather long station announcements (e.g., "From WKBW-TV News Channel 7, this is Eyewitness News at 5"). They remain trademarks of their respective owners. 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. Prior to her return to Pittsburgh in 1988, Susan was a Reporter at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC from 1985 to 1988, and the weeknight 6pm Co-Anchor at WTRF-TV in Wheeling, WV from 1981-1985. 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. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Trance. I play at clubs and parties all over Canada and in selected cities in the U.S. including Pittsburgh, where I played a few parties over the years.. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Lia Lando returning to WKBW-TV for holidays as fill-in anchor. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which recently signed on as a sponsor of Buffalo Healthy Livings Community Conversations, dropped. He had done movies as well as stage acting and has recorded several audio books. Ingram returned again to program WJJJ during its Jammin Oldies format, and worked briefly as an air talent at 3WS. Its transmitter is located at 8909 Center Street in Colden, New York. In April 1993, Daniels joined WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois as an anchor and reporter. 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. When WCBS-FM returned to the air in 2007 he returned to the afternoon drive shift but left in 2012 citing health reasons. WKBW was originally intended to be an independent station. Keep reading with unlimited digital access. ), Don Burns, Sara Lockard, Jay Davis, Johnny Williams, Jay Mitchell, Jim Harrington, Alan Jennings, John Poister, Hank Baughman, Clarke Ingram, Neal Spense, Susie Barbour, and many moreeven a brief moment with Scott Paulsen when did afternoon drive there (hard to imagine such a fantastic group of people in one place at one time). 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. Note: I was born in McKeesport. Sales Executive, 1996 1998; Strategic Images, Pittsburgh, SR. Doris Jones did the weather on Channel 2. . (modified from the original WKBW AM station slogan: (7/9/19). 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. During this time he started his own production company (Tom Daniels Productions) which he still operates today. Susan Banks - 1977-1981, 1990 - December 13, 2006. Bob Tracey also worked at WJAS and Metro Traffic. He went back to his native New York City as a sports reporter for all-news WCBS-AM. Pittsburgh is my hometown. WKBW streamed its noon newscasts via live video on the Internet, one of the few major network affiliates to offer a video stream. At KDKA I had the opportunity to work with the giants like Bill Burns, Patti Burns, Ray Tannehill, Sweet ol Bill Curry, Al Julius, Lynn Sawyer, Mary Robb Jackson, Wayne Van Dyne, Bob Kudzma and more names than I can list here. She co-anchored at 5:30 p.m. weekdays on Channel 4 and at 10 p.m. on WNLO in 2010 and also anchored Channel 4's weekend morning shows temporarily. Merkel and Cris. 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. (The station. He spent time at Washingtons WJLA 7 and is now news director at WTAP-TV in Parkersburg, WV. that originally was used for long-form features but quickly turned into a spot for paid interviews. A Southwest Virginia church was vandalized during Easter weekend, according to Washington County Sheriff . The plots of Jims thrillers are based in Pittsburgh. WKBW's weather staff provides forecasts to Townsquare Media stations WJYE and WYRK. Today, Jim does freelance voice work out of his studio in the South Hills and writes mysteries. [4], In 1998, Daniels joined KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington. Am now manager for Visions Production, a multi-media production company based here in Pittsburgh, producing live events and film/video/interactive. Find out more about our newscasts, our personalities, our mobile apps, our newsletters and more - all in one place. BILL MARTIN former WPXI weekend anchor in the early 1990s, is now the 5 PM anchor at Clevelands WJW-TV, the Fox affiliate. Talks were ongoing between NABET Local 25 and the management at WKBW-TV, though recent contract offers have been rejected. Rick Azar was a gentleman and a class act. Almost graduated but was hired as an original B94 jock in May 1981 to do nights. 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. Susan Banks, former WKBW anchor. 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. Lia Lando, a veteran anchor at two Rochester stations who recently has done freelance anchoring work for WKBW and at WIVB-TV (Channel 4) before that, will replace Rowe as co-anchor with Jeff. (All that in 9 years) In 2000 came to San Diego as PD of Soft Oldies KJQY. 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. I still voicetrack for Clear Channels KKFG in Farmington, NM, and do TV work in San Diego for KUSI-TV, KPBS-TV and XETV. Later she was at KRXA-AM in Monterey, CA. KARL HARDMAN was a member of Rege Cordics morning team at WWSW, KDKA and WTAE, and operated a recording studio for more than 30 years. Everyone doing well over here!". 4's Abby Fridmann turns down new contract, becomes latest 'Wake Up!' It's transmitter is located @ 8909 Center Street in Colden, New York. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). At the stations I served in many capacities including overnights on WDSY from 1979 through 1982, WEEP as production director and air personality 1982 to 1984, Assistant Program Director 1984 until becoming PD in 1985. However, in 2000, theNielsen ratings system switched the Buffalo market from a diary market to an automatically metered market, and in part because of WKBW's inflated reputation (coupled with Weinstein's and Jolls's retirements), eventually rival WIVB overtook the #1 spot, although it was still very much a three-way battle between the three local news stations. Byer passed away on October 31, 2018 in Reno, Nevada. WKBW-TV (Channel 7) is bringing back a former anchor to fill in during the holiday season while co-anchor Ashley Rowe continues on maternity leave. In the late 1990s, he set up the American branch of an Australian audio magazine company where he was CEO and editor in chief. Shift changes at 3WS elminated my shift there- it broke my heart, but thats the business. Buffalo Business First produces the station's business reports and traffic updates are handled by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. moved on to anchor with WFTS, the ABC affiliate in Tampa and then on the investigative team at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. 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! WKBW-TV. Much of his life was spent teaching at WVU and the aforementioned Drury University. Rowan left the station in early 80's and a succession of anchors included Jim Mitchell, Chuck Lampklin, Channel 4 veteran John Corrbett, Dunkirk native Allen Contantini, Rich Newberg, Gary Gunter and John Beard. Left Pittsburgh to return to Detroit (Eddie came to Pittsburgh from CKLW in Detroit.). Joe DeStio at WEAE says I am continuing my tour of Pittsburgh Radio and TV stations. RANDY WATERS former sports anchor and reporter at WPXI, now holds that position with WXIA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta. JIM BRINSON who replaced Randy Waters at WPXI, hosts a morning sports talk show on WNSA in Buffalo. (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!). Though WKBW has multiplexed its channels in the past, it currently does not do so. Still keeping a hand in radio while practicing law in Washington, DC, Kelly did weekends and swing at WAVA and Q107. Horne passed away suddenly in December 2016. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) 7 Eyewitness News is excited to welcome a new addition to the WKBW family. She graduated from Kent State University in Ohio, and completed her MBA at Canisius College while working full-time as a reporter. 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. She's thrilled to be reporting and anchoring in her hometown, and is dedicated to covering stories that make an impact on the community, and loves showcasing exceptional Western New Yorkers. There was a problem saving your notification. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. It was pulled after NFRRS began reading content that was of questionable decency for over-the-air broadcast. KRIS LONG WPXI anchor in the mid 1990s, moved to KNXV-TV 15 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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