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Pages in category "Radio personalities from Pittsburgh" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jodi Applegate – NBC's Later Today; John Buccigross – host, SportsCenter on ESPN; Bill Burns – KDKA anchor (1953–1989); Patti Burns – KDKA anchor with her father Bill; Bill Cardille – broadcaster known as Chilly Billy, host of Chiller Theatre and Studio Wrestling
When CBS decided to make KDKA-TV its full-time Pittsburgh affiliate, NBC (which shared time on KDKA-TV with CBS, ABC, and station founder DuMont since its sign-on in 1949) reached a deal to affiliate with WIIC. [7] Also, as a condition of the license grant, WJAS radio had to be sold; NBC wound up purchasing that station in August 1957. [8]
Pittsburgh television reporters (4 P) Pages in category "Television personalities from Pittsburgh" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
Patricia Jeanne Burns (January 27, 1952 – October 31, 2001) was an American journalist and television news anchor.. Burns was a familiar face to television audiences in Pittsburgh, where she worked for many years for KDKA-TV, a station for which her father, Bill Burns, was also a journalist and anchor.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette named Cullen one of Pittsburgh's fifty most influential cultural power brokers. [12] She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in American Media. [citation needed] Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1981, Cullen was a television anchor and reporter at WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. [12]
Ruth Elizabeth Wertz (1935 – July 14, 2021), known as Ricki Wertz, was an American actress and television personality.She was a pioneering figure in local television in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, appearing on several shows from the late 1950s until the 1980s.
William Robert Cardille (December 10, 1928 – July 21, 2016), also known as "Chilly Billy", was an American broadcast personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He was well known to regional viewers as a late-night horror host, but is perhaps more widely remembered for his appearance in George A. Romero's landmark zombie film Night of the Living Dead (1968), portraying a fictional version of ...