(info needed). (7/9/19), JACK CHRISTOPHERaka Cadillac Jack.air personality at WDSY FM from 1983-1994. We shifted to Oldies in 2000, and a year later shifted dial position and callscurrently PD and mornings at KOCL (95.7) San Diego; middays KSBL (101.7) in Santa Barbara, Middays on KKFG, Farmington, NM, Weekends on WLCL Atlanta, and Beatles Radio Show host on Classic Rock KGB, San Diego. 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. JOHN POISTER PD and Mid day jock at WIXZ /McKeesport when it went country in 1975. The Channel 7 frequency was hotly contested during the 1950s; the Buffalo Courier-Express and former WBUF-TV owner Sherwin Grossman tried several times to gain rights to the channel (to compete with The Buffalo News's WBEN-TV) but was unable to secure a license. He passed away in March of 2021 at the age of 91. . She'd go on to anchor at Channel 2 and Channel 7 before retiring from TV news 29 years . Both networks carried by WKBW on its digital subchannels are now carried instead on WGRZ-TV. Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ. Retired to Florida. Almost graduated but was hired as an []. 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. 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. In a text, Rowe wrote she is set to return in the beginning of January. 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. In addition, its noon newscast also features Mr. Food. Jerry Azar - hired in 1989 and served as 11 p.m. sports anchor for three years. 1987-1991; Columbus: WOSU-TV, WCOL-FM, WCOL-AM 1973-1978; Key West, FL: Television/Multimedia Coordinator for Monroe County (Florida Keys) government 1997-2010. Assistant News Director/ News Director WPGH-TV 1997 2003. His son Greg runs the Moon Township motorcycle shop that Bob Tracey founded in the 1960s. BILL MARTIN former WPXI weekend anchor in the early 1990s, is now the 5 PM anchor at Clevelands WJW-TV, the Fox affiliate. 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. Programmed in Memphis, Charlotte, Seattle in the 90s and moved to Salt Lake to manage a cluster in 1999. [4][5] These gains appear to have held as of May 2009, as the station made gains on a struggling WGRZ. 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. 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. 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. 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. DON COX who was the afternoon DJ on 13Q (WKTQ) in the mid-70s, and most recently worked at WPOW-FM (Power 96) in Miami. Katie is an Amherst native who now lives in Buffalo. Smiths announcement comes a few days after the station announced meteorologist Jennifer Stanonis was returning to the station in a full-time role. MICHAEL KUNKLE Harrison City native, became news anchor, KTRH-AM, Houston. 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. He is now the main anchor at KPSP-TV (CBS affiliate) in Palm Springs California. In 1976 I moved to television by joining WTAJ TV in Altoona. [] Where are they now? BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) Ashley Rowe, the award-winning anchor of 7 News at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., will be leaving WKBW next month to focus on being a full-time mom. Can't get enough of WKBW? 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. There was a problem saving your notification. Merkel and Steve. Gil is retired and living on Anna Maria Island in Florida. speech), and began using the Eyewitness Newsname for its 2 a.m. one-minute news brief. 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. 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. Channel 7 also is adding a reporter, Yoselin Person, to its staff next month. It's with great sorrow that the Buffalo Broadcasters Association acknowledges the passing of Jean Hill who was a news anchor at WKBW-TV for 12 years before leaving the business. PBRTV.com Pittsburgh Radio RICH ANTON Born & raised in the Burgh, graduated from North Hills High School and attended Clarion University. JENNIFER LUNT Was A-J Taylor at KQV and Metro Networks in the late 1990s and is taking a break from broadcasting. Joe DeStio at WEAE says I am continuing my tour of Pittsburgh Radio and TV stations. (Not to be confused with, Erika Von Tiehl - 2005-2007 - reporter/morning anchor. Left in 1987.to program WLAC-FM in Nashville. Jeff Myers AKA "The Traffic Guy" was known for his witty commentaries about the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. WKBW streamed its noon newscasts via live video on the Internet, one of the few major network affiliates to offer a video stream. 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. LYNN HINDS Not WDVE, ever. BIG STEVE RIZEN formerly with KQV and WJAS and the host of Give It a Whirl on WIIC-TV, is now a school teacher in Houston. Between 2000 and 2003 (and from 2008 to 2009), the morning show was known as Eyewitness News This Morning, and from 2003 to 2008 was known as 7 News This Morning. Returned to Pittsburgh in 1985 as Station Manager/Program Director at WTAE/WHTX (Hearst). She earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1977 and a Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University in 1980. Al Gee went on to work at WOOK-AM in Washington DC, WWRL in New York, WLIB in New York, WPIX in New York and is now retired and living in Wilkinsburg. The show went off the air in 1996. KRIS LONG WPXI anchor in the mid 1990s, moved to KNXV-TV 15 in Phoenix, Arizona. STEVE ZABRISKIE who did sports at WTAE-TV in the 70s, lived in North Carolina for a while and wrote a baseball instructional book for kids called Be a Hitter. Zabroskie retired from broadcasting in 1997 and lives in Orlando, Florida. (The station. He previously worked with the Buffalo-based Empire Sports Network and did play-by-play for the now defunct Buffalo Destroyers Arena Football. In the aftermath of the crash of Flight 3407, Katie followed the families' struggle to change airline regulations, and traveled with them to Washington D.C. as the NTSB investigated the incident. Reporter/News Director at WTAE-Radio 1989-1996. 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. 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. I am now Chair of Communication at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.. Was, at one time, mayor of Los Gatos, California. My husband is a television producer and we have two small children.. Oldies Kool moved to 99.3 in 2003and was gone by fall 2005, when I became morning news co-host on KOGO (AM 600). Penny Daniels is an American communications consultant and trainer and a former television news anchor who once hosted the TV show A Current Affair. In 1962, the Courier-Express reported that WKBW Radio publicist Joan Marshall was about to become Buffalo's first "lady newscaster" on TV. 7, is a TV station in Buffalo, New York. 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. 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.) He also does voice acting for video games and is heard as one of the play-by-play voices in Segas NFL game. He eventually returned to B-94 as PD, later working as an air talent at Z-100 in New York City and Eagle 106 in Philadelphia, and PD of WPXY in Rochester, New York. He left to do mornings at WQEN in Birmingham, Alabama, but is now morning host at WITL in Lansing, Michagan. Left Pittsburgh to go to Detroits WWWW before joining WODK in Grand Rapids and then returning to WWWW. Im in morningswere just off the ground (http://www.walrusfm.com) and response has been awesome. When it occurs, only WIVB will continue to broadcast its news in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. For many years, it was carried via microwave to cable systems in such areas as Corning and Horseheads for ABC service; this ended when WENY-TV signed on. Was at WNBC in New York in the same capacity until he was let go for budget reasons in 2007. Melanie Pritchard- anchor and reporter, 1997-2008. Our AM (XPRS-AM) is the very same frequency that was once XERBhome of Wolfman Jack. The newest member of WKBW-TV's sports department, Adam Unger Sports anchor and reporter Jenna Callari is joined by recent Newhouse graduate Adam Unger (right). Much of his life was spent teaching at WVU and the aforementioned Drury University. (7/9/19). Born as Elizabeth Penny Comm, Daniels is a native of Highland Park, Illinois. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) 7 Eyewitness News is excited to welcome a new addition to the WKBW family. Rowe joined the 7 News team. In 2000, Della was hired by News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. Kathleen Leighton, news (19892001). Contact Us: PBRTV Eric O'Brien PO Box 101345 Pittsburgh PA 15237 info@pbrtv.com Your Forecast [], [] Where are they now? No relation to Rick Azar. 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. It was pulled after NFRRS began reading content that was of questionable decency for over-the-air broadcast. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, As supporters pray, Kim Pegula's father shares her words: 'I will continue to fight', Prayer and healing vigil for Bills and Sabres co-owner Kim Pegula scheduled for Saturday, WGRZ meteorologist Elyse Smith exiting station after three years, DeAndre Hopkins Watch: Receiver posts on Instagram, 'Who says I wanted to leave? WGRZ-TV followed suit with Daybreak in 1996. He is now at WEWS-TV in Cleveland. EDYE TARBOX former WPXI anchor partnered with Mike Hambrick. Merkel and Cris. Nolan Johannes, co-host of Dialing for Dollars (1960s - 1978, left for. 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. 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. Until 2000, lottery drawings were shown on WKBW-TV (they have since moved to WGRZ). TOM LYONS former all-night DJ on WTAE in the 70s who also worked at KQV as Tom Lee in the 60s, is now retired in Grove City, PA. LORAN MANN Former WAMO jock and WIIC/WPXI anchor/reporter. JIM BRINSON who replaced Randy Waters at WPXI, hosts a morning sports talk show on WNSA in Buffalo. Her availability comes at an ideal time for Channel 7s holiday needs. WAMO won the war and remains dominant urban station in the market. WKBW-TV, Channel 7, is a television station in Buffalo, New York. BLAKE LAWRENCE I was morning man and APD at 96KX (WXKX) in 1977-78 before following PD Bobby Christian to Chicago and WMET. Byer passed away on October 31, 2018 in Reno, Nevada. SUSAN (BROZEK) SCOTT Former WTAE-TV (1988 1994) General Assignment Reporter, and Westmoreland County Bureau Chief. Hello to all my broadcast buddies from years past! Beginning in 2000, the station began making some questionable moves that arguably began its fall to the bottom. Im now Director of FM Programming for Susquehanna Radio in York, Lancaster, Harrisburg PA. Tom has since branched into the areas of graphic design and print media. Maria Genero, Rich Newberg, and Brian Blessing were the News 4 Weekend Staff for a good part of the 80s. Susan Banks - 1977-1981, 1990 - December 13, 2006. JAN HUTCHINS former weekend sports anchor at WPXI. 3WS radio for 31 years, mornings for 23 of them. Bret Buganski. WENDY KING co-host of KDKAs Party Line with her late husband Ed, remained in the area after his death. Doris Jones did the weather on Channel 2. . Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Keeping my toe in radio, still, by doing occasional weekend fill-ins for WSHH as well as teaching Radio Broadcasting course at Robert-Morris. Caywood apparently left radio in 2010 and became the Director of Marketing for the Sextant Group. Co-anchor of Eyewitness News This Morning, Eyewitness News at Noon/7 News This Morning, 7 News at Noon, most recently host of. Keep reading with unlimited digital access. Before joining 7 News, Katie worked for Time Warner Cable News in Buffalo and Syracuse. Phoebe Greene, daughter of 7 Eyewitness News anchor Ashley Rowe and her husband, Daniel. T.J. WINICK WTAEs Westmoreland County Bureau Chief from 1998-2000. 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. BOB GIBSON formerly with KDKA radio and TV, now freelances in New York after many years with all-news WCBS/New York. Bowman returned to television weather reporting as the morning meteorologist on KDKA-TV. DAVE MASON worked at 13Q (WKTQ) 1977-1979Middays and PD (for 6 months) in its near final days as 13Q. Currently Angie is a freelance journalist and media consultant in Lutz, Florida. 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. She also hosts PCNC shows, including the weekly Aesthetic Medicine, and has hosted shows about pets, cooking, travel, medicine & cable issues. 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. Since leaving television, I have become a writer, contributing weekly columns to the Tribune-Review, the Washington Observer-Reporter and the Greenwich Time. She assisted Channel 2 rather than her former Buffalo station. It currently starts at 5 a.m. Currently in advertising. The station has only two meteorologists compared to WIVB's four and WGRZ's five (WKBW uses a general assignment reporter, Jennifer Stanonis, to read weather forecasts on Fridays and Saturdays) and only two sports anchors compared to WGRZ's four (WIVB also currently has just two sports reporters). Later did reports on the City Hall beat for WJW-TV in Cleveland. Jean joined WKBW in 1990. Placed among 10 contestants in the "danger zone" after viewers voted Sunday night, the smiling crooner was not among the two singers chosen Mo. 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. Fridmann has been the permanent Wake Up! co-anchor alongside Chris Horvatits since December. Weekend news anchor and, Jerry Azar - sports anchor from the late 1980s to mid 1990's. Kelly and his morning partner, Dan Cooke, moved to Philadelphia in 1983 to do mornings for Coxs WSSH (which became Z106). 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. RON LEWIS Former Metro Networks traffic reporter and WEAE sports anchor. In October 2000, Daniels abruptly resigned from KHQ and left the TV news business to work as a communications consultant and trainer in Washington, D.C.[5], In 2003, Daniels and two partners created the communications consulting and coaching firm, 3D Communications, with offices located across the country. 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.. He was the main weatherman for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia from 1983 until his retirement in 2009. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) 7 Eyewitness News is excited to welcome a new addition to the WKBW family. Say "Good Morning Buffalo" with Katie, Ed and Aaron every morning! 10:58 AM, Oct 21, 2020 . I miss all those I worked with on radio and TV. From September of 2009 to September of 2010, the morning show's name was changed to Good Morning WNY. 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. Contact him atdbowmaninschools@aol.comor visit his websitedennisbowman.net. Buffalo ABC affiliate WKBW said it's losing three on-air talent within the next month. Anchor-Reporter Madison Carter Exiting WKBW 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. Anchor the 5pm and 6pm newscasts for WKBW-TV in Buffalo. In mid-1993, Daniels and Joan Lovett began anchoring the station's new noon newscast. 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. He confirms here that he NEVER worked at WDVE! Ginger Geoffery - joined 2004, Eyewitness News This Morning, Noon. Through 2009, WKBW continued to produce a special version of Sportsnite, Sportsnite Niagara, in cooperation with Niagara University during college hockey and basketball season. Churchill sold the WKBW stations to Capital Cities Broadcasting (which later became Capital Cities Communications) in 1961. 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). Now at. Daniels began her career in 1980 at the CBS affiliate in Green Bay Wisconsin, then moved to Buffalo, New York to report and anchor newscasts at WKBW-TV, the ABC affiliate. (In previous years, each newscast was delayed approximately one hour in the event of football games.). Harrington settled down in Pittsburgh and has lived here for 24 years. He was president of Harrington & Mitchell Advertising, Inc. for nine years. He also hosted the Penn State produced Pennsylvania Game TV trivia show. 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. 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. His new book, STRIKE AT THE GIANT, will be released soon. He was also on the national AFTRA board. 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). under Program Director and Afternoon Personality, Chuck Brinkman, whom he had always listened to on KQV as a boy. Left Channel 4 in 2001 to become an anchor at Washington, D.C. Fox Affiliate WTTG Channel 5. The noon newscast, during the mid-1970s, featured the first pairing of current WPVI anchor team Jim Gardner and Dave Roberts (then known as Dave Thomas), with Danny Neaverth frequently filling in for Thomas. Granite Broadcasting, WKBW's owner, filed for bankruptcy in 2006; as a result, the station group as a whole has been hit hard by financial difficulties[2]. In April 1993, Daniels joined WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois as an anchor and reporter. John Winston - 1970s and 1980s. His production company (known as Tom Daniels Multimedia Productions) is heavily involved in marketing Desktop Publishing, Audio Recording, both Print and Broadcast Ad Production, Pre-recorded Broadcast Programming, Archival Sound Preservation, and even Photo-Restoration. Now he owns and instructs at a yoga center in the same city. VICKI (aka VICKI ESPOSITO) Pittsburgh: 13Q, WKTQ, WJAS1978-1986; WLTJ, WEZE, WMXP(Mix Jams?) He now runs a political consulting firm. He later returned to the Pittsburgh area to talk about weather, but in school and community productions and his vantriloquist dummies. Retired. If you are experiencing difficulties logging in or are a subscriber getting a paywall, please try one or more of the following steps. The station also relies more on photojournalists than its competitors, and as a result, it has fewer general assignment reporters. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. 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. The slogan, from 2002 to 2008, was the alliterative phrase "Live, Local, Late-Breaking,", a phrase that has been used on stations across the country. anchor to exit, Buffalo singer Matt Wilson's quest ends on 'American Idol', Rosie ODonnell says that Madonna has always hit back at people who criticized her appearance, Sir Elton John says he won't give up performing after last tour, Melissa McCarthy would jump at the chance to make a 'Bridesmaids' sequel, Chris Pratt would struggle to play Star-Lord in other Marvel films. Madison Carter, the former WKBW-TV (Channel 7) anchor-reporter, has been a significant part of WGRZ-TV's (Channel 2) coverage. Currently employed as a voiceover talent for an agency in Kansas City. 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. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. In September 2003, however, came the most iconic change: dropping its entire heritage for the much more nondescript 7 News package. Rich can be contacted at antonrs@netzero.net. Now hes an anchor for Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles. 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. Now at, Bridget Blythe - anchor, 2004-2010. The station's morning show, the first in Western New York, began in 1989. ANGIE MORESCHI former WTAE-TV anchor.
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