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. 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! WBBZ-TV will present Women in Buffalo Television featuring interviews with Susan Banks, former WKBW and WGRZ-TV anchor; Carol Nigrelli, former WIVB-TV anchor ( known as Carol Crissey, then Carol Jasen); Laurie Lisowski-Frey, former WGRZ anchor and WKBW reporter and weather anchor; and Doris Jones, former host of For The Ladies on WKBW, weather anchor at Channel 2, and commercial spokesperson. Hill was also a member of the French Alliance of Buffalo and the Buffalo Prep Board of Directors. The move coincided with WKBW-TV's decision to outsource its master control operations to a company in Atlanta, Georgia; although it resulted in the loss of several Buffalo jobs, the master control outsourcing was far less expensive than attempting to upgrade the existing master control room from standard definition to HD. Weekend sports anchor-reporter Adam Unger is exiting the E.W. Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ. Yes.I do live in Nashville now (2008) but I still bleed BLACK & GOLD !!! (7/9/19), GLEN BARRIE AKA Barry Mardit used to be the Midday Air Personality and PD at 1080 WEEP. However, since the fall of 1972, it borrowed most of the basic elements of the "Action News" format used at longtime sister station WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, combined with the format news director Irv Weinstein developed and called "Rock 'n' Roll Radio News" (modified for television). BILL MARTIN former WPXI weekend anchor in the early 1990s, is now the 5 PM anchor at Clevelands WJW-TV, the Fox affiliate. As a result of the network shuffle, WKBW-TV premiered as ABC's new Buffalo affiliate when it went on the air on November 30, 1958. The two-time AIR award winner for Best Traffic Reporter in Pittsburgh is now a dialysis technician in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. This mix of talk, entertainment, and game show was an instant hit and led to the creation of "AM Buffalo" in 1978 to continue that tradition. News 4 Anchors & Reporters Jacquie Walker Don Postles Dave Greber Kelsey Anderson Jordan Norkus Jeff Preval Chris Horvatits Abby Fridmann Luke Moretti Marlee Tuskes Sarah Minkewicz Tara Lynch. Autumn Lewandowski has been promoted to weekday meteorologist on the station's 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. 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. Hill was the 2003 recipient of the Urban Financial Services Coalition Herbert W. Whiteman, Jr. National Scholarship, was a Kiplinger Fellow, and in 2018 was appointed by Governor Cuomo to serve as a representative of the news media for the Committee of Open Government. As a morning news anchor, Katie and and the morning team work together to bring you the latest. The Trustoria Professional Directory helps everyone know the best Journalist for their upcoming project. MICHAEL KUNKLE Harrison City native, became news anchor, KTRH-AM, Houston. Returned to Pittsburgh in 1985 as Station Manager/Program Director at WTAE/WHTX (Hearst). E. W. Scripps spun-off their papers to Journal Media Group on April 1, 2015,[9][10] while Gannett's broadcasting and digital media operations were spun off to the new Tegna on June 29, 2015. All rights reserved. Rowe, who has been the co-anchor of the 5 and 6 p.m. weekday newscasts after dropping the 11 p.m. newscast, will have her last newscast on June 10. So what does Sabres GM Kevyn Adams do this week? After Bridget Blythe's departure in October 2010, the morning show reverted it back to the Eyewitness News This Morning title, with Ginger Geoffery and Patrick Taney as anchors. Callari has been on the Channel 7 sports team since 2017 and Unger since 2019. In 2000, Della was hired by News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. WKBW-TV redesigned its website in April 2007 using the YouNews TV platform for locally contributed viewers photos and videos. 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. Currently broadcasting NFL Cardinals pre-season football, Arena football in Phoenix, talk show work on KTAR in Phoenix, BETH DOLINAR From 1986 to 1994 I was an investigative reporter and sometime anchor at WTAE-TV. WBBZ-TV (720p) on Spectrum Ch 71 (HD 1230). The station's website continued to be managed internally by Granite until October 2014, when a Scripps-run modern site designed for compatibility with both traditional PC and mobile tablet and smartphone platforms came online, along with the standard Scripps interface for the station's mobile/tablet apps. During this era, it also reorchestrated the "Move Closer to Your World" theme with a more futuristic synthesizer-based version. . There was a problem saving your notification. Churchill sold the WKBW stations to Capital Cities Broadcasting (which later became Capital Cities Communications) in 1961, earning a handsome return on his original investment into WKBW radio in 1926. Merkel and Cris. [12] Scripps chose not to retain WPXJ as Buffalo has fewer than eight unique television station owners, not enough to permit a duopoly in any case. [63] Shortly following WUTV dropping its affiliation with the network, WKBW added Grit as a third subchannel in mid/late June 2017. [49], In June 2022, Ashley Rowe opted to leave to spend more time with family and was replaced by Lia Lando. Ratings somewhat rebounded by October 2011; WKBW-TV's 11:00p.m. newscast jumped to second place, behind WIVB-TV but ahead of WGRZ.[32]. 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. Carol came to Buffalo in the early 1980's as Carol Crissey, a reporter for WIVB-TV. [44], WKBW has an association with Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, employing entry-level graduates of the university as part of the school's Journalism Career Program. A native of Corning and a Syracuse University graduate, Lando worked in Elmira and Westchester before arriving in Rochester. 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. 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 Russo on the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. weekday newscasts starting June 13. "I'm sorry I said it," Daniels later said, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 22, 1993. Merkel and Dickson. ) has for many years been an internationally known financial guru. Rich can be contacted at antonrs@netzero.net. Follow the conversation @WBBZ on Twitter. JOHN POISTER PD and Mid day jock at WIXZ /McKeesport when it went country in 1975. 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. Became the Program Director in late 83 (again thanks to the Captain) and remained till 89. The station had news operations from its beginning, but ceased broadcasting a 6:00p.m. newscast in the fall of 1965, due to a mass exodus of viewers to WBEN-TV. ALAN CUTLER formerly with KDKA radio and TV, is a motivational speaker based in Lexington, KY. Visit his website atwww.alancutler.com. 30 years in TV news was great fun. Before arriving in Pittsburgh, he worked in New York on WCBS-FM, Boston at WBZ and Hartford at WDRC. 14221 Left Pittsburgh to return to Detroit (Eddie came to Pittsburgh from CKLW in Detroit.). However, after WBUF was shut down by its second owner, NBC, on September 30, 1958, then-ABC affiliate WGR-TV (channel 2, now WGRZ) re-added NBC programs. KELLY RANDALLDid evenings and afternoons at WPEZ from 1978 1980, following that did evenings at FM97 for Chuck Brinkman. The station began under the direction and ownership of the late Dr. Clinton H. Churchill. Through 2009, WKBW-TV continued to produce a special version of Sportsnite, Sportsnite Niagara, in cooperation with Niagara University during college hockey and basketball season. FCC Public File Website. In 2014, the station was acquired by the prestigious E.W. in September 2012 to serve as the lead-in to WIVB-TV's prime time programming, which has been credited with helping hasten WKBW-TV's decline and WIVB-TV's rise in the ratings. Prior to 1983, the station adhered to the National Association of Broadcasters's Seal of Good Practice. Menu. From 1970 to September 1, 2003 and again from October 27, 2008 to December 31, 2021, WKBW-TV has called its news operation Eyewitness News and used variations of the iconic circle 7 logo until 2022. 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