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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
To mark the occasion, a live television special aired that day from 8:30 to 11 p.m. on WDTV, which began with a one-hour local program broadcast from Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. The remainder of the show featured live segments from DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC with Arthur Godfrey, Milton Berle, DuMont host Ted Steele, and many other celebrities. [4]
Leon Crosby of San Francisco led an investor consortium named Pittsburgh Telecasting, which bought WPGH-TV out of bankruptcy and returned it to the air, this time for good, on January 14, 1974. Under Crosby and the successive ownerships of the Meredith Corporation , Lorimar-Telepictures , and Renaissance Broadcasting , WPGH-TV endured as ...
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 ...
WPKD-TV (channel 19), branded KDKA+, is an independent television station licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Pittsburgh area. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside KDKA-TV (channel 2), the market's CBS owned-and-operated station.
NEW YORK (PIX11) – Van Ritshie, the man who voiced the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North train announcements, died earlier in November at the age of 80, according to his family. Ritshie’s ...
Casanova received a four-year deal at $12,000 per year. Coach Casanova was a proponent of the T-formation, which was different from the single wing offense run by Coach Milligan. [12] On March 9, 160 prospects met with Coach Casanova for the start of spring drills. The varsity and freshmen candidates reported on March 22. [13]
KDKA Sports Director Bob Pompeani and former Steelers QB Charlie Batch handle the broadcast duties. Coach Mike Tomlin's weekly press conference is shown live on KDKA-TV's sister station WPKD-TV, channel 19. National NFL Network broadcasts are shown locally on KDKA-TV, while national ESPN broadcasts are shown locally on WTAE, channel 4.