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Elliot attended Wayne State University, [3] and served in World War II as a B-24 bomber pilot. [4] During the war he spent 18 months as a prisoner of war. [5] He became a weatherman in 1947. He was known for his jokes during broadcasts. [6] Eliot started broadcasting Detroit weather on WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV on channel 4) from the 1947 to 1980. [7]
In 1969, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to impose restrictions on the common ownership of print and broadcast media in the same market.The combination of the Detroit News and WWJ-AM-FM-TV was given grandfathered protection from the new regulations, but by the mid-to-late 1970s, the Evening News Association was under pressure to break up its Detroit cluster voluntarily.
[5] [10] They continued to operate the weather station at Blacksod until it was automated in 1956. It was at this point that the pair was first made aware of the important role their weather reports had on the planning of Operation Overlord. [9] Flavin Sweeney succeeded her mother-in-law as postmistress at Blacksod and retired in the early 2000s.
Trudy Haynes was the first Black TV news reporter in Philadelphia, the broadcaster passed away on June 7.
Mort Crim (born July 31, 1935) [1] is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined Channel 4 (soon to be named WDIV-TV) in Detroit in 1978. Crim stayed with the station 19 years before retiring from anchoring TV newscasts in 1997.
A veteran reporter is dead after suffering a brain aneurysm while on assignment. WABC Channel 7's Lisa Colagrossi died Friday after suddenly collapsing in a news van the day prior. A friend says ...
In the 1960s, women were virtually nonexistent in television news, with the exception of the occasional "weather girl." [3] Hill had intended on going into international relations. [2] By happenstance, Hill and her husband saw a newspaper advertisement looking for a women's editor on a local TV station. She applied and got the job three weeks ...
A Michigan woman who was mistakenly pronounced dead by medics at her home in August has died — eight weeks later. Paramedics were sent to Timesha Beauchamp’s home in Southfield, outside ...