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JIM MERKEL Currently doing voiceovers from home studio. 4's Abby Fridmann turns down new contract, becomes latest 'Wake Up!' If you have any updates or would like to add your listing to this page, please fill out the form below. 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. Everyone doing well over here!". Outside of work, Katie enjoys staying active. B.B. Still keeping a hand in radio while practicing law in Washington, DC, Kelly did weekends and swing at WAVA and Q107. KENT DERDIVANIS who was a member of the Pirates broadcast team from 1990-1993. Became the Program Director in late 83 (again thanks to the Captain) and remained till 89. His mother spent part of her childhood here, according to the press release from WKBW-TV. (*As a side note, Nina was caught on camera on September 11, 2001 running to safety at the time of the attacks at the World Trade Center.). (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 He had a radio nostalgia website atbobshannon.com website no longer active. Later returned to his home state of Connecticut. This move was described as "deadly" to the ratings for its evening newscasts. He now runs a political consulting firm. 3WS radio for 31 years, mornings for 23 of them. He is an avid bike rider, certified private pilot, and a 1st Lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol and a new Daddy. WKBW redesigned its Web site in April 2007, adding the user-generated content system YouNews TV, a YouTube-like video hosting service centered around news in the Buffalo area. See all of the 7 News reporters, anchors and meteorologists. Now live in Newtwon PA outside of Philly. He went back to his native New York City as a sports reporter for all-news WCBS-AM. Now working as a traffic reporter for Clear Channels Washington DC Cluster. Newsman Irv Weinstein,. Almost graduated but was hired as an []. He had a few months at WCBS and eventually launched the Just Ask Asa podcast. 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. 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. 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). {{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? 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. 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. There was a problem saving your notification. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). Left to pursue a career in real estate. Penny Daniels is an American communications consultant and trainer and a former television news anchor who once hosted the TV show A Current Affair. Bible Shift changes at 3WS elminated my shift there- it broke my heart, but thats the business. WKBW-TV. Editors Note: A while back we had it listed that Lynn worked at WDVE. For five years, he was a national commercial voice for SEARS. Moved in 1987 to Detroit as MD/middays with Bobby Hatfield at WDTX (one of the few true Rock-40 stations at the time). In September 1994, Daniels left WBBM to join A Current Affair as a New York-based weekday host. Fridmann has been the permanent Wake Up! co-anchor alongside Chris Horvatits since December. Since has moved to Austin, Texas and was afternoon drive for heritage rock station 93.7 KLBJ until September 2006. WKBW's weather staff provides forecasts to Townsquare Media stations WJYE and WYRK. Contact him atdbowmaninschools@aol.comor visit his websitedennisbowman.net. EDDIE ROGERS Was Afternoon Drive and Program Director on The New Sound of 13Q 1973-1975. 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. "I'm sorry I said it," Daniels later said, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 22, 1993. The show went off the air in 1996. (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). Currently in his bag of voicetracking assignments is evenings at WWSW in Pittsburgh. 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. 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. More recently, it was the first to offer RSS feeds and podcasts. 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]. Susan Banks began her Buffalo career on Eyewitness News in 1977. In September 2003, however, came the most iconic change: dropping its entire heritage for the much more nondescript 7 News package. 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. I still voicetrack for Clear Channels KKFG in Farmington, NM, and do TV work in San Diego for KUSI-TV, KPBS-TV and XETV. 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. Bowman returned to television weather reporting as the morning meteorologist on KDKA-TV. 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. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. ANGIE MORESCHI former WTAE-TV anchor. Channel 7 also is adding a reporter, Yoselin Person, to its staff next month. 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. ET before moving up to 5:30 a.m. in 1996. Originally a weekend anchor, Mahoney went on maternity leave in the early 1990s and then returned as anchor of the morning newscast, "Good Morning Western New York," before leaving on maternity again in the mid 1990s and not returning. 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. After 13Q, worked on WXYZ, WDRQ, WMJC, WCLS, WOMC, then did mornings on WLTI, LITE-FM for 9 years. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which recently signed on as a sponsor of Buffalo Healthy Livings Community Conversations, dropped. [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. 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. TERRY LEE of all the requests as to the whereabouts of a local personality PBRTV ever had, Terry Lee Trunzo was the most frequent. ART PALLAN retired to Fort Myers, Florida after working more than 40 years at WWSW and KDKA radio. JACK SALVATORE Left WTAE to head back to Phoenix, where I was the noon anchor and consumer advocate. under Program Director and Afternoon Personality, Chuck Brinkman, whom he had always listened to on KQV as a boy. In mid-1993, Daniels and Joan Lovett began anchoring the station's new noon newscast. 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. JIM LOKAY Former morning news/traffic reporter for Metro Networks in Pittsburgh. WKBW-TV, Ch. On demand video of newscasts is available. Sales Executive, 1998 . May 1, 2023 at 5:57 PM. In September 1994, Daniels left WBBM to join A Current Affair as a New York -based weekday host. Until 2000, lottery drawings were shown on WKBW-TV (they have since moved to WGRZ). Presently working at the Butler County Radio Network WISR, WBUT & WLER. (7/9/19), BOB CERMINARA Former reporter at WJAS, WEDO and KQV. Left Pittsburgh to go to Detroits WWWW before joining WODK in Grand Rapids and then returning to WWWW. 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. 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. She hosted the show until September 1995, when she shifted to being a correspondent for the program's weekday editions and the anchor of the show's weekend edition. RON LEWIS Former Metro Networks traffic reporter and WEAE sports anchor. (7/9/19), JACK CHRISTOPHERaka Cadillac Jack.air personality at WDSY FM from 1983-1994. He is a member of the national Television Critics Association. She graduated from Kent State University in Ohio, and completed her MBA at Canisius College while working full-time as a reporter. Email is kabrams961@aol.com. Early life and education Lando also briefly worked as an interim anchor at WIVB-TV (Channel 4) after Lisa Flynn left the station in 2009. 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. Currently consulting Country stations nationwide. Keep reading with unlimited digital access. In December, 2010 the web-master was laid off and the web page is not overseen by any specific person but updated by employees both in and out of the news department, many without journalistic training. 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. Then go home Merkel. Barry Mardit, Alan Furst, Keith Abrams and Bill White (now WBT PD) worked for me. The staff at WKBW congratulates Ashley and Dan and their family on Phoebe's arrival. 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. Smiths announcement comes a few days after the station announced meteorologist Jennifer Stanonis was returning to the station in a full-time role. She then became a freelance-reporter for WQEDs On-Q. Respectfully submitted! In 1976 I moved to television by joining WTAJ TV in Altoona. We also run a small restaurant in the French countryside, so I split time between Phoenix and France. Left Pittsburgh to return to Detroit (Eddie came to Pittsburgh from CKLW in Detroit.). T.J. WINICK WTAEs Westmoreland County Bureau Chief from 1998-2000. 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.
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