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). He also hosted the Penn State produced Pennsylvania Game TV trivia show. WPXJ was instead included in a package of stations resold to Inyo Broadcast Holdings.[13]. His son Greg runs the Moon Township motorcycle shop that Bob Tracey founded in the 1960s. All rights reserved. He was president of Harrington & Mitchell Advertising, Inc. for nine years. ) has for many years been an internationally known financial guru. 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. The station changed its logo to a new one that it had been using for its digital operations for the previous few months. 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. Headquartered out of Clear Channel San Diego, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive 92123. Some critics[who?] 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 station also filled one of its reporting openings Tuesday with a multimedia journalist who has Western New York roots. Kristen Mirand, a Williamsville native who graduated from Sacred Heart Academy, is joining the station as a multimedia journalist on Sept. 12. Although this was her primary occupation, Hill wrote freelance articles and occasionally worked on special projects for Daybreak TV Productions and WNED-TV. On March 13, 2020,[65] WKBW moved its physical frequency down to channel 34 (previously held by WVTT-CD, which moved down the dial to VHF channel 11) as the result of a domino effect stemming from the broadcast spectrum auction. [26] In 2000, WKBW-TV displaced longtime 5:00pm anchor Kathleen Leighton to mornings in favor of former WIVB-TV weather anchor Maria Genero, who had been host of the talk show Good Day New York. Before taking her anchoring role at Buffalo, Hill worked for network affiliate television stations in Georgia and South Carolina. Follow the conversation @WBBZ on Twitter. [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. Lia Lando to replace Ashley Rowe as WKBW anchor; station's sports lineup is changing. We had a chance to catch up with Laurie recently when she welcomed us into her home. WKBW-TV was originally intended to be an independent station. She was also a Fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. Weinstein spent a total of 34 years at the station until his . The WABC team covers the New York, New Jersey and Long Island like no one else. [3] A year-and-a-half later, in June 1995, Granite bought the remaining 55% interest in the station.[4]. Went to Denver with CBS since 2003 as VP/Programming for the market and CBS VP/Classic Hits and Oldies Programming for the company. From about 1989 until February 1997, the station identified itself as News Channel 7, but kept the Eyewitness News name for its newscasts out of posterity, resulting in rather long station announcements (for example, "From WKBW-TV News Channel 7, this is Eyewitness News at 5"); a similar situation arose on then-CBS affiliate WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida from 1997 to 2002, that station also continued to call its newscasts Eyewitness News while identifying as WJXT NewsChannel 4 for general purposes. william lupo obituary former wkbw reporters. 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. [11], On September 24, 2020, a consortium made up of Scripps and Berkshire Hathaway announced the proposed purchase of Ion Media, including its Ion Television owned-and-operated station in the Buffalo market, WPXJ-TV (channel 51). Jim returned to Pittsburgh in 2005 as morning traffic reporter for KDKA/WPCW-TV. Williamsville, NY. Im in morningswere just off the ground (http://www.walrusfm.com) and response has been awesome. WKBW-TV redesigned its website in April 2007 using the YouNews TV platform for locally contributed viewers photos and videos. With the change, WKBW also abandoned its circle 7 logo for the first time ever. Ransom's replacement, Michael Nurse, sought to overhaul the relatively undermanned newsroom by increasing the staff and overhauling the morning show. The station was among the first in Western New York to launch a website in the mid-1990s and was the first to offer RSS feeds and podcasts. Alan Pergament has had a variety of roles at The News since 1970, including as a news and sports reporter. My husband is a television producer and we have two small children.. It even used "Move Closer to Your World," the theme song made famous by WPVI-TV (though it was known by the station as "The Eyewitness News Theme" and WKBW, through its employee Walt Liss, claimed to be the station that originated it[25]despite the theme bearing strong similarities to WPVI's existing theme by Tom Sellers). The program began with hosts Brian Kahle and Nancy Foreman, and continued with Linda Pellegrino, and reporter/co-host Jon Summers, and is currently hosted by Emily Lampa and Mercedes Wilson. Her most recent role was vice president and senior compliance officer at M&T Bank. MIKE BOGUSLOWSKI (Bogey) WPXIs former consumer reporter who was always in YOUR (points finger) corner, was last seen in the corner of viewers at KCBS TV 2. Most move on to other stations in the Scripps portfolio within a few years. In 1985, he joined Hill and Knowlton public relations, then worked for a Tampa-based investment firms Washington office. Local News, Weather and Sports in Youngstown, Ohio Local News; Storm Team 27 Forecast; Sports; 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. 30 years in TV news was great fun. 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. . WKBW-TV streamed its noon newscasts live online, one of the few major network affiliates to offer a video stream at the time (the feed was removed from the WKBW.com page in April 2007, but remained in operation through at least mid-2008; Scripps reactivated the stream in 2015). His website,http://www.barrykaye.com/will give you more info. He was most recently the PD/OM of suburban Pittsburgh stations 620 KHB and 770 KFB, owned by Broadcast Communications, Inc. (7/9/19), DON JEFFERSON host of morning radio as Banana Don at WBZZ, WZPT and WSHH. Alan Pergament: WKBW drops Eyewitness News brand, names Hannah Buehler 11 p.m. anchor Alan Pergament Jan 3, 2022 Updated Mar 10, 2022 0 Hannah Buehler is the new anchor of the 11 p.m.. PBRTV understands hes living in the Pittsburgh area awaiting a new radio opportunity. Now living in Century City, CA, Barry has been the author of numerous books and has hosted many videos. See all of the 7 News reporters, anchors and meteorologists. With the upgrade, WBRE began producing half-hour newscasts at noon and 7 p.. Jul 19, 2018 . With Scripps' acquisition of WKBW-TV, each of Buffalo's "Big Three" network affiliates will have at one point or another been owned by a company with newspaper interests; WIVB-TV, founded in 1948 as WBEN-TV, was owned by the Butler family, then-owners of the Buffalo Evening News, from its inception until the early '70s (and both had shared partial ownership by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway from 2014 to 2017, via BH's stake in Media General); Gannett Company, publishers of USA Today and various other newspapers around the country, acquired WGRZ-TV in 1996. Currently Angie is a freelance journalist and media consultant in Lutz, Florida. Furthermore, WKBW-TV was a source for much of WPVI-TV's on-air talent. Weinstein joined the station in 1964 after working at WKBW-AM from 1958 to 1964 as News Director for the classic radio station. WPNT and WTAE, works at WKBW-TV/Buffalo. Her most recent role was vice president and senior compliance officer at M&T Bank. Brought in to host the newly branded Good Morning were out-of-market newcomers Cole Heath and Tiffany Lundberg, with meteorologist and feature reporter Mike Randall held over from the previous staff. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays [38] Scripps planned on using WKBW-TV's morning show as a pilot system to test the format; had it been successful, the company would have rolled out the new format on its other stations across the United States. 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. Still keeping a hand in radio while practicing law in Washington, DC, Kelly did weekends and swing at WAVA and Q107. 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. For five years, he was a national commercial voice for SEARS. After getting married and going to other markets working in TV, EDYE is now known as E. D. (Donahey) Hill on Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends. Talks were ongoing between NABET Local 25 and the management at WKBW-TV, though recent contract offers have been rejected. . 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. Scripps station. The place: 1420 Main Street in Buffalo, New York - the original home of WKBW-TV. Former WKBW anchor Patrick Taney is sending his well wishes from north of . He resides with his wife near the Pro-football Hall of fame in the Canton, OH Area and works with Copley Newspapers of Ohio as a Retail Sales and Electronic Marketing Representative. However, WIVB-TV strengthened their morning show staff at the same time, undermining any possible gains WKBW-TV may have made with its re-staffing and the morning show lost a third of its audience in the fall of 2013, even with promos for the morning show during Bills preseason coverage (which may have actually backfired, as the ad campaign had portrayed Heath and Lundberg as unable to pronounce the names of towns in the station's coverage area). In addition, the station produces a half-hour sports wrap-up program Sunday Sports Final, which airs Sunday evenings after the 11 p.m. newscast. Penny Daniels is an American communications consultant and trainer and a former television news anchor who once hosted the TV show A Current Affair. 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. JAN HUTCHINS former weekend sports anchor at WPXI. "I don't usually lose my temper when I'm doing a newscast."[3]. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. After getting married, Carol Jasen moved into the co-anchor chair, where she would stay until making a life change a decade ago when she re-married and moved out west. In 2000, Della was hired by News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. Also the voice ofwww.webjhn.comand can be found atwww.jjsolomon.net. Channel 7 and 7 News have been there for you Western New York, serving one of the most unique regions in the country by supporting a diverse range of community groups and events, like The Buffalo Urban League, Summit Educational Resources, The March of Dimes, The American Heart Association, 1490 Enterprises, and Women and Children's Hospital through the Variety Kid's Telethon, just to name a few. It keeps the skills honed. Autumn Lewandowski has been promoted to weekday meteorologist on the station's 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. I program both WSOX and A/C WARM 103. 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. [46] Marc Jaromin was hired to replace Nurse. ANDY PEARSON (former WTAE anchor/reporter) Andy joined Todays KTHV in 1998 and currently co-anchors the 5, 6, and 10 oclock broadcasts. 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. Along with forecasts for WKBW-TV's news programs, WKBW-TV's weather staff also provides forecasts for two local radio stations owned by Townsquare Media, WMSX and WYRK, as well as for Audacy-owned WBEN. Since then, Ive moved to the former WXRB (now WJJJ), then to WTTF Toledo, WPHM Detroit, WIFN Detroit, WMJZ Gaylord, MI before landing back in the Pittsburgh area at WJPA Washington. On September 27, 2014, WKBW-TV adopted the standardized imaging and graphics used by other Scripps stations, and changed its circle 7 logo, the last remaining remnant of the 7 News era, to the once-ABC O&O proprietary version, matching that of new sister station WXYZ-TV in Detroit; by coincidence, like WKBW-TV, WXYZ-TV was another station sold off by ABC to Scripps in the Capital Cities-ABC merger of 1986 to comply with ownership limits. Since 1997, my family and I divide our time between homes in Ben Avon, PA and Greenwich, Connecticut. Contact him atdbowmaninschools@aol.comor visit his websitedennisbowman.net. Daniels currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her two children. From 2006 to 2007, WKBW-TV also produced Sportsnite, a nightly sports talk program hosted by members of WKBW-TV's sports department, that aired weeknights at 7 p.m. on WNGS. I left the station as afternoon personality in 1994 to pursue a career in the record business with Sony Music/Columbia Records as Regional Promotion Manager/Northeast for Columbia Nashville. [31] WKBW-TV also updated its set and graphics in October 2010. TERRY MCGOVERN who worked at KDKA radio and TV from 1965-69, lives in Marin County, California and teaches acting and voice. 67 DirecTV, and these Time Warner Cable channels: Buffalo Niagara Falls Metro area: Channel 5 (HD 1230); Batavia Genesee, Wyoming, Orleans Counties Channel 71 (HD 1230); Parts of Erie and Niagara Counties Channel 71 (HD 1230); Dunkirk Channel 99 (HD 1230); Olean Channel 21 (HD 1230); Fredonia Jamestown Channel 72 (HD 1230); Alfred- Angelica- Avoca- Bath- Bolivar Friendship- Hornell Channel 71 (HD 1230). During this time he started his own production company (Tom Daniels Productions) which he still operates today. KENT DERDIVANIS who was a member of the Pirates broadcast team from 1990-1993. 7 is favorite to simulcast Bills game with Pats on 'Monday Night Football', "Programming changes due to the Bills game tonight", http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/12/11/daily15.html, http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/12/11/daily27.html?surround=lfn, Walt Liss Co-Author of Famous News Theme and WKBW Exec Has passed, "Versus pulls big numbers with Sabres vs. Rangers", Channel 4 returns to the lead, but cable quarrel boosts Channel 7, Ch. Ginger Geoffery, morning anchor for Buffalo, NY, ABC affiliate WKBW, is leaving the station. As a result, WKBW's First Alert weather team had eight meteorologists on their payroll (including two freelancers and mostly off-air graphic artist Dave Vogan), by far the most of any station in the market. In December 2015, Co-Anchor, Joanna Pasceri, was replaced by newcomer, Ashley Rowe, who joined Keith Radford and Jeff Russo at the anchor desk. LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Biden's student debt relief plan. If you are experiencing difficulties logging in or are a subscriber getting a paywall, please try one or more of the following steps. Keep reading with unlimited digital access. Recently he did some swing work on 3WS and then mornings on WWVA. Live with Kelly and Ryan, Right This Minute, The Kelly Clarkson Show and Hot Bench are among the station's syndicated offerings. [5], On February 10, 2014, the E. W. Scripps Company announced that it would acquire WKBW-TV as well as MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYD in Detroit from Granite Broadcasting for $110 million. In April 2017, WKBW received a brand new set which is inspired by the Scripps graphics package. In addition, he is the long-time meteorologist for ABC affiliateWBRZ-TV. WKBW-TV decided to adopt a new identity, thus bringing the Eyewitness News era to an end. Also owner of 1150 WGBN New Kensington. moved on to anchor with WFTS, the ABC affiliate in Tampa and then on the investigative team at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. MIKE SILVERSTEIN former WJAS talk show host in the early 70s, is an award-winning news reporter for ABC Radio. From 2005 to 2012, the station only employed two meteorologists compared to WIVB-TV's four and WGRZ's five (WKBW-TV used general assignment reporters on weekend weather forecasts during this time) and only two sports anchors compared to WGRZ's four (WIVB-TV also currently has just two sports reporters). Heck, we even gave Dennis Miller his first shot opening up for Pittsburgh Today. 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. His first book, SQUEEZE PLAY, was published last year is available at Amazon.com and other online booksellers and at select book stores. 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Pallan passed away in Pittsburgh at the age of 83 in early 2007. The station's newscasts were rebranded as 7 News in September 2003 and "Move Closer to Your World" was dropped in favor of a more contemporary news music package (Right Here, Right Now by 615 Music). WBBZ-TV President and General Manager Bob Koshinski commented, "I think our viewers will enjoy catching up with the women in television, as they share their memories.. Scripps further increased the staff to five meteorologists and again revamped the news department largely with familiar names in Buffalo television. After 13Q, worked on WXYZ, WDRQ, WMJC, WCLS, WOMC, then did mornings on WLTI, LITE-FM for 9 years. From there I went on to do stations in Houston, Texas 610 KILT and Detroit AM 1130 WCXI. Dave became a weatherman for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia until his retirement in 2009, after working in his hometown of Buffalo from 1961 until 1978. The station began under the direction and ownership of the late Dr. Clinton H. Churchill. MIKE STONE former weatherman at WTAE-4 moved on to WKYC-3 Cleveland doing weather for the weekday evening newscasts. Born as Elizabeth Penny Comm, Daniels is a native of Highland Park, Illinois. His first day is June 24, a day after Unger exits. 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. [24] In lieu of a 6:00p.m. newscast, WKBW-TV's evening newscast aired at 7:20p.m. in its early years. The station's virtual channel 7 did not change. JIM ROOKER former Pirates announcer, owns a restaurant-bar in Ambridge, PA called Rooks East Side Saloon. BLAKE LAWRENCE I was morning man and APD at 96KX (WXKX) in 1977-78 before following PD Bobby Christian to Chicago and WMET. Within 9 months it became a volunteer only operation but I was rescued by Broadcast Company of the Americas who decided that simulcasting their Sports programming from XPRS-AM was better served by (ta daaa) Oldies on 105.7 now christened The Walrus. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the station began making some questionable moves that arguably began its fall to the bottom. 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. Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with, sorted by primary channel network affiliations, Clinton Churchill/CapCities ownership (19571986), Queen City Broadcasting/Granite Broadcasting Co. years (19862014), Capital Cities Communications Inc v Canadian Radio-Television Commission, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime-show controversy, S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, Cap Cities Selling Station - Chicago Tribune, Granite Buying TV Partnership - The New York Times, Scripps Buying Granite TVs in Buffalo, Detroit, Scripps closes on deal to buy two stations from Granite in Buffalo, Detroit, "Scripps, Journal Communications Complete Merger And Spinoff", "Separation of Gannett into two public companies completed | TEGNA", "E.W. He left to do mornings at WQEN in Birmingham, Alabama, but is now morning host at WITL in Lansing, Michagan. In 1998 i launched WSOX. Pittsburgh is my hometown. 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). The station is owned by Nexstar, which also owns WIVB in Buffalo. 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