She is presently working at WJET in Erie, Pa. 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. (All that in 9 years) In 2000 came to San Diego as PD of Soft Oldies KJQY. 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. Currently Communications officer for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. If you are experiencing difficulties logging in or are a subscriber getting a paywall, please try one or more of the following steps. News / Apr 11, 2023 / 11:32 PM EDT. 3WS radio for 31 years, mornings for 23 of them. He was recruited in 1984 by 92Q, Cleveland, Ohio. VICKI (aka VICKI ESPOSITO) Pittsburgh: 13Q, WKTQ, WJAS1978-1986; WLTJ, WEZE, WMXP(Mix Jams?) Outside of work, Katie enjoys staying active. Left to pursue a career in real estate. 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. He's a native of Erie, Pennsylvania and has a familial connection to Western New York. (In previous years, each newscast was delayed approximately one hour in the event of football games.). 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. . Since has moved to Austin, Texas and was afternoon drive for heritage rock station 93.7 KLBJ until September 2006. An Ordained Minister and Senior Pastor of thePentecostal Temple Church of God in Christin East Liberty. Watch our newscasts from 4:30 Lia Lando returning to WKBW-TV for holidays as fill-in anchor 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. WBEN (WIVB) TV History - Buffalo Broadcasters Association (7/9/19). He now runs a political consulting firm. Co-anchor of Eyewitness News This Morning, Eyewitness News at Noon/7 News This Morning, 7 News at Noon, most recently host of. 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. Now he owns and instructs at a yoga center in the same city. [6] Daniels also interviewed infamous criminal Charles Manson in 1989.[7]. JACQUE SMITH former weekend anchor and reporter at KDKA-2 is now at WJW-8 Cleveland where she anchors the stations weekday morning newscasts. Alan Pergament: TV reporters whose hearts remain in - Buffalo News Joe DeStio at WEAE says I am continuing my tour of Pittsburgh Radio and TV stations. Anchor-Reporter Madison Carter Exiting WKBW From September to November 2008, no Saturday newscasts were produced, and the station again suspended its Saturday 6:00 p.m. newscast in 2010 (though its late newscast now airs after college football). (7/9/19), JACK CHRISTOPHERaka Cadillac Jack.air personality at WDSY FM from 1983-1994. Kathleen Leighton, news (19892001). In 1976 I moved to television by joining WTAJ TV in Altoona. Byer passed away on October 31, 2018 in Reno, Nevada. Currently PD/middays for the Forever Broadcasting Classic Rock combo- WUZZ & WUUZ in Meadville/Franklin/Oil City, PA. Glad to be back in Stillers country!!! Now reporter at WBZ-TV, CBS affiliate in Boston. 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. They remain trademarks of their respective owners. But this new job is fantastic. Banks' sudden retirement from WKBW came just two days after an announcement was made that the station's owner, Granite Broadcasting, had filed for bankruptcy protection. . Learn more about the WKBN news team. Through 2009, WKBW continued to produce a special version of Sportsnite, Sportsnite Niagara, in cooperation with Niagara University during college hockey and basketball season. WKBW-TV, Ch. KELLY RANDALLDid evenings and afternoons at WPEZ from 1978 1980, following that did evenings at FM97 for Chuck Brinkman. Now at, Laura Gray - joined 2006, left March 4, 2011. Merkel by himself. May 1, 2023 at 5:57 PM. "I'm sorry I said it," Daniels later said, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 22, 1993. Beginning in 2000, the station began making some questionable moves that arguably began its fall to the bottom. 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. Buffalo's 7 News WKBW provides 24/7 news coverage on WKBW.com and our mobile app. Pittsburgh is my hometown. Anchor Ashley Rowe and husband Dan welcome new baby girl - WKBW Newsman Irv Weinstein,. The newest member of WKBW-TV's sports department, Adam Unger Sports anchor and reporter Jenna Callari is joined by recent Newhouse graduate Adam Unger (right). CHUCK BRINKMAN longtime KQV, WTAE and WRRK DJ, left Pittsburgh for KLUV-FM in Dallas where he was afternoon DJ on oldies-formatted KLUV-FM in Dallas as well as PD for a time until the end of 2005. For five years, he was a national commercial voice for SEARS. E-mail:[email protected]. 175 News Anchors in Buffalo, NY Directory - Trustoria "Women In Buffalo Television" Special! Friday - - WBBZ-TV WKBW 7 News Staff | WKBW.com Barry Mardit, Alan Furst, Keith Abrams and Bill White (now WBT PD) worked for me. 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. Im in morningswere just off the ground (http://www.walrusfm.com) and response has been awesome. Living World War II Veteran honored after donating P.O.W Diary to National Museum. 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. 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. Oldies Kool moved to 99.3 in 2003and was gone by fall 2005, when I became morning news co-host on KOGO (AM 600). Witness). My clients include ESPN Classic Canada and The Hockey Network. 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. JIM HORNE KDKA DJ from 1967-72, became an actor in New York now known as J.R. Horne. Merkel and Steve. The station was originally located at 1420 Main Street, and remained there until it moved to its current location at 7 Broadcast Plaza in downtown Buffalo in 1978. 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. 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. She graduated from Kent State University in Ohio, and completed her MBA at Canisius College while working full-time as a reporter. 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. Bounced out of now-defunct 1250/WTAE in November, 1997, after 5 months of solo morning effort following Larry OBriens retirement in May, 1997.now happily retired and living in semi-luxury with at least 8 cats in lovely Murrysville, PA. (OBrien would live here too, but he cant afford it.) In April 1993, Daniels joined WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois as an anchor and reporter. Sales Executive, 1998 . Currently in field operations for Ford Division Marketing and Sales at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI. 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. WKBW suspended both of its Saturday newscasts in September 2008, during college football season; the station resumed those newscasts in December, after football season ended. AM Buffalo still airs today. Later returned to his home state of Connecticut. Ken Houston - 2004-2006 5:30 anchor 11 p.m. reporter. Alan Pergament has had a variety of roles at The News since 1970, including as a news and sports reporter. I miss all those I worked with on radio and TV. Now retired. ), Don Burns, Sara Lockard, Jay Davis, Johnny Williams, Jay Mitchell, Jim Harrington, Alan Jennings, John Poister, Hank Baughman, Clarke Ingram, Neal Spense, Susie Barbour, and many moreeven a brief moment with Scott Paulsen when did afternoon drive there (hard to imagine such a fantastic group of people in one place at one time). ET before moving up to 5:30 a.m. in 1996. After many years at 1360 in McKeesport, he left the area for Arizona and Florida before settling in Ohio. (see www.joeleraab.com) for more details. MIKE SILVERSTEIN former WJAS talk show host in the early 70s, is an award-winning news reporter for ABC Radio. 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. Jim returned to Pittsburgh in 2005 as morning traffic reporter for KDKA/WPCW-TV. (7/9/19), DARIETH CHISOLM former WPXI anchor/reporter. WKBW also updated its set and graphics in October 2010 (by inserting a blue background behind the studio set) ahead of a bigger set overhaul as part of the station's plan to convert its newscasts to upconverted SD. Hardman passed away in 2007 at the age of 80. Merkel and Cris. 7 News WKBW - Facebook (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. SHAWN YANCY Former WTAE-TV Reporter and Anchor. 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. At that point WKBW radio was sold to Price Communications and renamed WWKB (currently owned by Entercom Communications). 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). 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.