WKBW anchor Ashley Rowe is leaving the station next month to "focus on being a full-time mom.". (7/9/19). AM Buffalo still airs today. 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From there she moved to Washington, D.C., where she was a reporter and fill-in anchor at WJLA-TV, the ABC station from 1985-1988. When the sale of the Buffalo Bills was made official in New York City, Katie was there to cover the team changing hands. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) 7 Eyewitness News is excited to welcome a new addition to the WKBW family. 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. 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. During this time he started his own production company (Tom Daniels Productions) which he still operates today. JIM MERKEL Currently doing voiceovers from home studio. Early life and education It was pulled after NFRRS began reading content that was of questionable decency for over-the-air broadcast. Yes.I do live in Nashville now (2008) but I still bleed BLACK & GOLD !!! MICHAEL KUNKLE Harrison City native, became news anchor, KTRH-AM, Houston. WKBW has been proactive in its ventures on the Internet. MIKE SILVERSTEIN former WJAS talk show host in the early 70s, is an award-winning news reporter for ABC Radio. Hinds was also known for his work at WTAE-TV as host of AM Pittsburgh with Cathy Milton and Al McDowell. After a 3 year stint as the Top Teen Night Jock in the Rockn Roll Capitol, he returned to Drive-Time as Afternoon Personality for pioneer Classic Rock station, WNCX, Cleveland. 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. Weinstein was WKBW's main anchor from 1964 until his retirement in 1998, doubling as news director for most of that time. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. (Not to be confused with, Erika Von Tiehl - 2005-2007 - reporter/morning anchor. wkbw.com. Currently consulting Country stations nationwide. 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. Harrington settled down in Pittsburgh and has lived here for 24 years. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. T.J. WINICK WTAEs Westmoreland County Bureau Chief from 1998-2000. WKBW-TV, Ch. 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. No relation to Rick Azar. 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. The station had news operations from its beginning, but ceased broadcasting a 6 p.m. news in fall 1965 due to a mass exodus of viewers to WBEN-TV.[2]. Got flushed from the business in 1990. AL GEE Former PD and mid-day and evening host at WZUM (1967-68), during the stations brief fling as an R&B station. JOEL RAAB I was PD of WEEP 78-81 used air name Jay Stevens. 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. Sheriff: Washington County, Va. church vandalized . Went crosstown to 96.1 HitRadio 96 WHTX with Captain ShowBiz & Cary Pall in 1983 for PM Drive. Reporter, first African-American television personality in the Buffalo market. Was, at one time, mayor of Los Gatos, California. 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. TERRY LEE of all the requests as to the whereabouts of a local personality PBRTV ever had, Terry Lee Trunzo was the most frequent. 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. 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. He had a radio nostalgia website atbobshannon.com website no longer active. Keep reading with unlimited digital access. Jim returned to Pittsburgh in 2005 as morning traffic reporter for KDKA/WPCW-TV. Doris Jones did the weather on Channel 2. . When it occurs, only WIVB will continue to broadcast its news in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. The station's newscasts were rebranded as 7 News in 2003, and Move Closer to Your Worldwas dropped in favor of a more contemporary piece of news music (Right Here, Right Now by 615 Music). Susan Banks - 1977-1981, 1990 - December 13, 2006. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which recently signed on as a sponsor of Buffalo Healthy Livings Community Conversations, dropped. He would later return to the airwaves at WJAS for a time. 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.) I still voicetrack for Clear Channels KKFG in Farmington, NM, and do TV work in San Diego for KUSI-TV, KPBS-TV and XETV. That job was eliminated in 2007 with budget cuts, and I started mornings on experimental Sign On Radio an internet only website for The San Diego Union-Tribune. (7/9/19). ET on WNGS. BOBBY BENNETT Former morning jock at WZUM (1967-68). 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. 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. 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. ET before moving up to 5:30 a.m. in 1996. My co-Anchors were Mary Robb, Vicki Yates Orr, Patrice King Brown, and Brenda Waters. 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. Now hes an anchor for Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles. 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. His last position before retiring was as president of a small pharmaceutical company. The station is currently owned by the Granite Broadcasting Corporation, who also operates Equity Broadcasting-owned RTN affiliate WNGS under . DAVE MASON worked at 13Q (WKTQ) 1977-1979Middays and PD (for 6 months) in its near final days as 13Q. The two-time AIR award winner for Best Traffic Reporter in Pittsburgh is now a dialysis technician in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. 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. WCPO 9 News staff biographies and information. 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. BOB DEARBORN who preceded Don Berns on WTAEs afternoon show, and worked at oldies station WJMK Chicago. Rowe joined the 7 News team. 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.. Now live in Newtwon PA outside of Philly. 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. He lives in Washington, DC and has been active in a gay and lesbian organizations, including the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network to bring the US into conformity with the rest of the civilized world and allow gay and lesbian military members to cease lying about their sexuality as they defend the country. Am now manager for Visions Production, a multi-media production company based here in Pittsburgh, producing live events and film/video/interactive. He also hosted the Penn State produced Pennsylvania Game TV trivia show. 98-year-old Leonard Gaj, better known as "Airborne Lenny . Known 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. (modified from the original WKBW AM station slogan: JIM HARRINGTON A man for all seasons on KDKA from 1980 through 1984 and then did mid-days on WTAE from 1984 to 1988. 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. Merkel and Steve. Now an instructor for the Austin campus of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and Mix 94.7 weekender. Reporter/News Director at WTAE-Radio 1989-1996. Born as Elizabeth Penny Comm, Daniels is a native of Highland Park, Illinois. Currently in field operations for Ford Division Marketing and Sales at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI. Kathleen Leighton, news (19892001). MIKE HAMBRICK former WPXI anchor and part of the Mike and Edye (Tarbox) team. (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). I am now Executive Director of Trails and Open Space Coalition. In 1974 I started working at WEDO and WIXZ in McKeesport. Rick Zurak - 1989-1991 - sports - Weekend sports anchor for three years before starting his own golf store and is now the head of the New York State Junior Golf Tour and Rick Zurak's Golf Warehouse. 12:41 PM, Sep . 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! Also worked at WWCH-AM/WCCR-FM, Clarion, and WASP-AM, Brownsville. From 1998 to 2002, it used the slogan "Your Hometown Advantage.". Then to PD of WBUF, Buffalo, WKRC/WKRQ/WWNK/WLW/WSAI/WCKY and WAZU Cincinnati. 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. JIM BRINSON who replaced Randy Waters at WPXI, hosts a morning sports talk show on WNSA in Buffalo. Furthermore, WKBW was a source for much of WPVI's on-air talent. WKBW's weather staff provides forecasts to Townsquare Media stations WJYE and WYRK. Andy is the Manager of an adult baseball team, The Little Rock Indians. It keeps the skills honed. WKBW-TV turned-off its analog transmitter on June 12, 2009. 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 decided to adopt a new identity, thus bringing the Eyewitness News era to an end. 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. (The station. Jean Hill - longtime weekend anchor, later moved to mornings after the departure of Mahoney and Leighton. A terrific job, learned a lot, had tons fof fun, and the fantastic opportunity to work with folks like Jack Bogut, OBrien & Garry, Jim Quinn, Larry Richert, Myron Cope (our offices were right next door to each otherYoi! 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. 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. JOHN GARRY Half of the famous OBrien and Garry duo on various stations around town. 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 is the voice of Air Force Academy football and says another Western New York product, Linda Benzil, former WKBW announcer, works as an anchor-reporter at KUSA. (7/9/19). Apr 28. BILL MARTIN former WPXI weekend anchor in the early 1990s, is now the 5 PM anchor at Clevelands WJW-TV, the Fox affiliate. 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. Through 2009, WKBW continued to produce a special version of Sportsnite, Sportsnite Niagara, in cooperation with Niagara University during college hockey and basketball season. Ken Philips -- Last time we. At that point WKBW radio was sold to Price Communications and renamed WWKB (currently owned by Entercom Communications). 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. Kendra Eaglin - joined 2010, Eyewitness News Weekend, Jeff Russo - joined 2004, sports director, Shawn Stepner - joined 2007, weekend sports & host of Sunday Sports Final, Aaron Mentkowski - joined 2000, Meteorologist, Weekdays at 5, 6 & 11 (, Jennifer Stanonis - joined 2005, weather anchor, Eyewitness News this Weekend at 6 & 11 (fill-in mornings), Dave Cash - weather "anchor," occasional fill-in evenings, Elizabeth Carey - joined 1999 (business, by agreement with, John Borsa - joined 2003 (occasional fill-in anchor), Jason Gruenauer- joined 2010 (also fill-in sports), Adam Francis- photojournalist and general assignment reporter, Dave Cash - weekday mornings/fill-in weather, Steve Schnepf - fill-in weeknights & mornings, Linda Pellegrino, joined station prior to 1990, also previously a weather anchor, Jon Summers, joined station prior to 1983, previously the station's announcer), Jon Summers - commercials, 1983 to present (also newscasts from 1983 to 2003). A Southwest Virginia church was vandalized during Easter weekend, according to Washington County Sheriff . JOHN POISTER PD and Mid day jock at WIXZ /McKeesport when it went country in 1975. News Director at KQV 1978-79. (All that in 9 years) In 2000 came to San Diego as PD of Soft Oldies KJQY. SHAWN YANCY Former WTAE-TV Reporter and Anchor. 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. 7, is a TV station in Buffalo, New York. In 2000, Della was hired by News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. Moved back to Pittsburgh in 1989 as APD/PM Drive for the 9 month run of Energy 105 WNRJ(formerly WYDD) with Tony Florentino and Dave LaBrozzi. Andy Parker, Meteorologist, Good Morning WNY, Eyewitness News (19922000). 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. Pete Kenworthy - WNY live reporter 2003/ 7 News this morning anchor 2004-March 23, 2007. 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. [1]. The information on this page is not up to date. WGRZ-TV followed suit with Daybreak in 1996. Katie is the President of the Buffalo Broadcasters Association, and is dedicated to helping preserve WNY broadcasting history, and helping those who are interested in a future in broadcasting. 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!) She. His website,http://www.barrykaye.com/will give you more info. WPNT and WTAE, works at WKBW-TV/Buffalo. [3] The station produces less news content during the week than its competitors (24 hours, compared to thirty for WGRZ and forty for WIVB), is the only one in the market that does not produce a 10 p.m. newscast, nor does it produce a weekend morning newscast, while the other two stations in the market have both. The station's digital channel is UHF 38. He previously worked with the Buffalo-based Empire Sports Network and did play-by-play for the now defunct Buffalo Destroyers Arena Football. Almost graduated but was hired as an []. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays 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. Buffalo Business First produces the station's business reports and traffic updates are handled by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. 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. NOWPM Drive anchor on top-rated all-newser WTOP, Washington, DC since 1998. She'd go on to anchor at Channel 2 and Channel 7 before retiring from TV news 29 years . She then became a freelance-reporter for WQEDs On-Q. However, in April 2007, due to very poor ratings despite a barrage of heavy advertising, the Buffalo Sabres being in the playoffs and the upcoming 2007 NFL Draft, Sportsnitewas cancelled. BOB GIBSON formerly with KDKA radio and TV, now freelances in New York after many years with all-news WCBS/New York. {{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? Say "Good Morning Buffalo" with Katie, Ed and Aaron every morning! Copyright and Notice of Fair UseAll original material on this website is copyright (C) 1998-2022 by Eric O'Brien d/b/a PBRTV. Fridmann has been the permanent Wake Up! co-anchor alongside Chris Horvatits since December. In 1976 I moved to television by joining WTAJ TV in Altoona. 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. 1996 I put on another country in Baltimore Froggy 100.7. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. After serving four terms I was nominated for the U.S. Senate seat in 2000. His website iswww.terrymcgovern.com. He went back to his native New York City as a sports reporter for all-news WCBS-AM. He also does voice acting for video games and is heard as one of the play-by-play voices in Segas NFL game. Im in morningswere just off the ground (http://www.walrusfm.com) and response has been awesome. After WNRJ imploded, moved out to Indianapolis, IN for a 10 year run as PD/Mornings at AAA formatted WTTS until 2000. Rick Azar was a gentleman and a class act. Presently working at the Butler County Radio Network WISR, WBUT & WLER. Before coming to Pittsburgh, he had been a director of President Carters White House Conference on Small Business, a member of the Senate Small Business Committee staff and a Business Week reporter. Both networks carried by WKBW on its digital subchannels are now carried instead on WGRZ-TV. It's transmitter is located @ 8909 Center Street in Colden, New York. Much of his life was spent teaching at WVU and the aforementioned Drury University.
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