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Several members of the news department staff in its early years started at WBRC radio including news anchors Harry Mabry and Joe Langston (the latter of whom would also take on a management role as its director of news and editorial policy in 1969), and sports anchor Tom York. In 1969, former WSGN radio anchor Bill Bolen joined WBRC to replace ...
Leroy Stover (May 23, 1933 – November 2, 2023) was an American police officer. Stover was the first black police officer on the Birmingham, Alabama, police force.Serving from 1966 until 1998, Stover rose through the ranks of the Birmingham Police Department to become Deputy Chief in charge of field operations.
Langford was a reporter for WBRC-6, which at the time was the ABC affiliate in Birmingham, during the mid 1970s. He was the community's first African-American TV news reporter. He was later a public relations director for a Birmingham Budweiser distributor. Prior to entering politics, Langford was a well known local television personality.
The City of Birmingham's first Black police officer, Leroy Stover, has died. Birmingham Police on Friday posted about Stover's death on X, formerly known as Twitter. Stover died Thursday, al.com ...
James Max Spann Jr. (born June 6, 1956) is a television meteorologist, TikTok, and podcast host based in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] He currently works for WBMA-LD (ABC 33/40), Birmingham's ABC affiliate. Spann has worked in the field since 1978. [2] He also hosts the podcast WeatherBrains which he started in 2006. [3] [4] [5]
The following is a list of television news anchors who have worked in Birmingham, Alabama. Pages in category "Television anchors from Birmingham, Alabama" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
From April 1949 to July 1950, in his first full-time job in radio, Wood was staff announcer at WJVA in Mishawaka, Indiana on the morning sign on show, Sunrise Serenade. [ 5 ] From July 1950 to October 1953, Wood was staff announcer at WIBC radio in Indianapolis , Indiana , where he was the first African American to hold an announcer position on ...
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