Get the recommendations on what's streaming now, games you'll love, TV news and more with our weekly Home Entertainment newsletter! From there I went on to do stations in Houston, Texas 610 KILT and Detroit AM 1130 WCXI. Clinton Churchill, original owner of 50,000 watt radio station WKBW AM 1520 in Buffalo, was granted the license to operate the station in 1957. BOB GIBSON formerly with KDKA radio and TV, now freelances in New York after many years with all-news WCBS/New York. Rowe and her husband, Dan Greene, welcomed a daughter, Phoebe, in mid-September. I miss all those I worked with on radio and TV. Buffalo ABC affiliate WKBW said it's losing three on-air talent within the next month. 25 overall in NFL draft, Alan Pergament: Roswell Park exits arrangement with WBBZ show over TV station owner's comments, Former WGRZ meteorologist Elyse Smith headed to Houston station, Alan Pergament: Ch. On October 22, 2008, WKBW news anchors launched what has been described as the "Big Tease,"[3] an announcement that an ostensibly top-secret "major change" was coming; although only a few of the senior members of the staff knew about the change, it was widely predicted to be a revival of the Eyewitness Newsname and classic theme. Pete Kenworthy - WNY live reporter 2003/ 7 News this morning anchor 2004-March 23, 2007. 1,373 were here. Now hes an anchor for Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles. (The station. 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. 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. Watch Now . Nevertheless, the station retained the 2003 studio set and graphics package for the next two years and has moved the "7 News" and "Live/Local/Latebreaking" slogans back to the 2 a.m. news brief. Now an instructor for the Austin campus of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and Mix 94.7 weekender. 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. Wonder what hed say today?? Editors Note: A while back we had it listed that Lynn worked at WDVE. WKBW has been proactive in its ventures on the Internet. BLAKE LAWRENCE I was morning man and APD at 96KX (WXKX) in 1977-78 before following PD Bobby Christian to Chicago and WMET. JIM BRINSON who replaced Randy Waters at WPXI, hosts a morning sports talk show on WNSA in Buffalo. Doris Jones did the weather on Channel 2. . 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The station's digital signal remained on channel 38. 7 News WKBW provides 24/7 news coverage on WKBW.com and our mobile app. It is unclear which station in the Texas city will be her new TV home and when she will work. PAT SHINGLETON the former WPXI weatherman famous for having an arrow on his finger, is the owner of a production company in Baton Rouge, La. JIM MERKEL Currently doing voiceovers from home studio. I worked with some of the best. Currently Director of Coverage and Content at WPXI-TV. Programmed in Memphis, Charlotte, Seattle in the 90s and moved to Salt Lake to manage a cluster in 1999. Most recently heard on XM Radio in Washington DC. NINA PINEDA former WTAE reporter is now at WABC-TV in New York. Cox passed away suddenly in September of 2003. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. From 1998 to 2002, it used the slogan "Your Hometown Advantage.". Buffalo, New York. 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. It is the ABC affiliate for the Buffalo television market, and is one of many local Buffalo TV stations seen over-the-air and on cable in Canada. WKBW-TV, Ch. 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. 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. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) 7 Eyewitness News is excited to welcome a new addition to the WKBW family. He also does voice acting for video games and is heard as one of the play-by-play voices in Segas NFL game. 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. He's a native of Erie, Pennsylvania and has a familial connection to Western New York. Bowman returned to television weather reporting as the morning meteorologist on KDKA-TV. A Southwest Virginia church was vandalized during Easter weekend, according to Washington County Sheriff . Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ. He retired in April 2015. As of 9/10/2004, I am J.J. on KISS 101.7 WJKS WILMINGTON, DE a QC Communications Station. 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. See all of the 7 News reporters, anchors and meteorologists. 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. Got flushed from the business in 1990. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 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. During this era, it also reorchestrated the theme with a more futuristic synthesizer-based version. In 2000, Della was hired by News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. (In previous years, each newscast was delayed approximately one hour in the event of football games.). Phoebe Greene, daughter of 7 Eyewitness News anchor Ashley Rowe and her husband, Daniel Greene, arrived at 3:59 a.m. Monday, September 13, weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces. David Thomas Boreanaz (born February 14, 1936) is a retired American television broadcaster who broadcast under the stage names Dave Thomas in Buffalo, and Dave Roberts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also an Emmy-nominated . He was president of Harrington & Mitchell Advertising, Inc. for nine years. It's the ABC affiliate for the Buffalo TV market & is one of many local Buffalo TV stations seen over-the-air & on cable in Canada. Presently working at the Butler County Radio Network WISR, WBUT & WLER. Much of his life was spent teaching at WVU and the aforementioned Drury University. 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). 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. Went crosstown to 96.1 HitRadio 96 WHTX with Captain ShowBiz & Cary Pall in 1983 for PM Drive. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); ASA AARONS Former WPXI Consumer Advocate. The plots of Jims thrillers are based in Pittsburgh. Now reporter/morning anchor at, Grace Polanski - 2002-2004 - WNY live anchor, now at Fox21 News at Nine weekends - Colorado, Helen Tederous - 1997-2005 - reporter and also PM Buffalo co-host, Linda White - 2002-2004 - first anchor of WNY Live, then weekend anchor, now at, Kristin Wedemeyer - 2001-2004 - weekend "weather forecaster"/meteorologist, Pat Tomasulo - 2003-2006 - fill-in sports anchor, now at, Joe Major - weekend sports anchor circa 2000. 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. His son Greg runs the Moon Township motorcycle shop that Bob Tracey founded in the 1960s. If you have any updates or would like to add your listing to this page, please fill out the form below. (December, 2009). 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(?). Weinstein was WKBW's main anchor from 1964 until his retirement in 1998, doubling as news director for most of that time. Before joining 7 News, Katie worked for Time Warner Cable News in Buffalo and Syracuse. Katie is an Amherst native who now lives in Buffalo. You can reach me at jchristopher@equitymusicgroup.com (7/9/19), DEAN CONNORS worked at WOMP-FM in Wheeling 1987 1992 (as Dean Fredericks), moved to WXRB (the Rebel) as one of the original jocks there (as James Dean) Left for gigs in Harrisburg and Chattanooga before returning to program WASP-AM & FM in Uniontown, until they were bought and turned into Froggy stations (yuk!) Reporter/News Director at WTAE-Radio 1989-1996. JEFF GILBERT former WEEP/WDSY News Director/Anchor, is a popular news reporter for Infinitys 950am WWJ/Detroitoften heard on CBS Radio Network news reportsHe is also host of the Car Chronicles feature heard on that station and other CBS affiliates. 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. He is now the main anchor at KPSP-TV (CBS affiliate) in Palm Springs California. News / Apr 11, 2023 / 11:32 PM EDT. The first was displacing longtime 5:00 anchor Kathleen Leighton to mornings in favor of former WIVB weather anchor Maria Genero, who had been host of the talk show Good Day New York). JOHN SANDERS formerly of KDKA, does cable TV play by play for the Cleveland Indians and works for the Big East basketball network. 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. Currently employed as a voiceover talent for an agency in Kansas City. Though WKBW has multiplexed its channels in the past, it currently does not do so. Placed among 10 contestants in the "danger zone" after viewers voted Sunday night, the smiling crooner was not among the two singers chosen Mo. As a result of the changes, WKBW had dropped all involvement with WNGS.[1]. 175 News Anchors in Buffalo, NY Directory - Trustoria Here's where reporters who left WIVB landed, along with - Buffalo News Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Find out more about our newscasts, our personalities, our mobile apps, our newsletters and more - all in one place. WKBW-TV | The Weather Channel Wiki | Fandom Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Our AM (XPRS-AM) is the very same frequency that was once XERBhome of Wolfman Jack. WKBW Anchor Keith Radford's Final Broadcast Set For June 30 TVSpy | June 9, 2021 | 6:52 am EDT by Kevin Eck NextGen TV Debuts On Five Buffalo Stations TVNewsCheck | March 19, 2021 | 7:38 am EDT by Mark K. Miller WKBW, WGRZ, WUTV, WIVB and WNYO are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology. WKBW currently carries comparatively little syndicated programming, instead opting for the AM Buffalo programs and infomercials. (7/9/19). Berns passed way unexpectedly in March 2015. According to the stations website, Person was born and raised in Brooklyn, is bilingual and graduated from St. Bonaventure University. NEAL SPENCE I am now retired and living in Daytona Beach, Florida and married to my high school sweetheart, Jan. GIL LUCAS Founder of KBL Sports in Pittsburgh, the forerunner of The Fox Sports Regional Network. Mayor Brown's 2023 State of the City Address includes - Yahoo News He had a few months at WCBS and eventually launched the Just Ask Asa podcast. Pheben Kassahun signs off - WJHL | Tri-Cities News & Weather Watch our newscasts from 4:30 On the beach now, attending California University of PA. (info needed), DELLA CREWS The former WPXI morning/noon anchor spent time as the 5PM co-anchor and medical beat reporter at WSAZ-TV 3 in Huntington- Charleston, West Virginia from 1998-2000. Remembering the legacy of former 7 Eyewitness News anchor - YouTube In September 1994, Daniels left WBBM to join A Current Affair as a New York -based weekday host. Channel 7 also is adding a reporter, Yoselin Person, to its staff next month. 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. Jan 2015 - Present8 years 4 months. Nowadays Im a freelance voice talent in Toronto. Susan Banks - 1977-1981, 1990 - December 13, 2006. 1996 I put on another country in Baltimore Froggy 100.7. After 13 years with Sony and stints in Boston and Pittsburgh I took a job with Equity Music Group .a small independent label in Nashville where I have been employed for the past 3 years. The staff at WKBW congratulates Ashley and Dan and their family on Phoebe's arrival. Currently in advertising. 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! Adrian Whitsett. Lia Lando to replace Ashley Rowe as WKBW anchor; station's sports HAL (HB) BROWN Former afternoon drive and evening jock on WAMO (circa 1967-74).