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WDIV was the over-the-air television flagship station of the Detroit Tigers, a relationship that lasted twenty seasons, from 1975 to 1994, and previously from 1947 to 1952. During the majority of WDIV's second tenure as the Tigers' broadcast outlet, Hall of Famers George Kell and Al Kaline served as play-by-play announcer and color analyst ...
The Tigers have spent most of their broadcast televised history across two of Detroit's heritage "Big Three" network stations, WJBK (Channel 2, Fox; formerly with CBS from 1948 to 1994) and WDIV (Channel 4, NBC; originally WWJ-TV from 1947 to 1978), as well as two of the market's former legacy independent stations, WMYD (Channel 20, formerly ...
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. Previously, he served as an anchor at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: WDIV-TV confirms upcoming departure of 4 veterans of news team. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Finance.
Hoover's family said in a statement earlier this week to NBC affiliate WDIV of Detroit, "We grieve his untimely death and will miss him greatly. We are so grateful for the many words of kindness ...
Detroit station WDIV-TV (Channel 4) is reportedly offering buyouts to its on-air news talent, including "Weekend at Bernie's" sportscaster Bernie Smilovitz, according to a couple of online reports ...
Euthanasia medicine. Murad Jacob " Jack " Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". [ 2 ] Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end.
In 1977, Makupson joined WKBD as news anchor and public affairs director. At WKBD, she hosted Morning Break, the station's daily talk show, and produced and anchored a five-minute newsbreak called TV50 News Scene. In 1985, Makupson was appointed co-anchor of WKBD's newly-launched Ten O'Clock News; beginning in 2001, she also began to anchor 62 ...