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WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signed on by Hearst (alongside company flagship WBAL-TV in Baltimore ).
In 1980, Wiggin turned down a news anchor job in Atlanta in order to join WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. [3] [4] She then became co-anchor of the weekend news at WTAE-TV in 1981. [1] In November 1986, she was named anchor for the weeknight news. [1] [3] In that position, she was part of a successful team with Don Cannon. [5]
DeNardo landed at WTAE-TV in 1969, bringing his news anchor partner Paul Long with him to WTAE, continuing their often sardonic banter when Long would introduce DeNardo for the weather segment of the news. DeNardo was so popular that his presence at WTAE was the focus of an advertising campaign. [9] DeNardo retired from WTAE-TV on January 1, 2005.
She then worked at stations in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Altoona, Steubenville, and Wheeling before becoming the morning and noon meteorologist at WPXI in Pittsburgh in 1999. [4] In 2004, she left WPXI for a similar position with KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth [5] before returning to WPXI in 2008. [6] Bologna left WPXI on July 13, 2011.
Wertz first worked on local Pittsburgh TV delivering the weather report for WTAE-TV. It featured her singing to the audience while dressed in a negligee. [2] She went on to host a popular children's morning program, Comedy Time, starting in 1958. The show was renamed Ricki & Copper the following year, when Ricki's dog, Copper, joined the cast.
Cannon worked at WTAE-TV from 1969 to 1994. During that time, he became a "fixture of Pittsburgh broadcasting" as part of the WTAE news team, along with Paul Long and meteorologist Joe DeNardo. [1] In later years, he was teamed with Sally Wiggin. [1]
Fox was named "Best Pittsburgh Newscaster" seven years in a row by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.During her ten-year television career, she was able to interview many prominent national figures such as Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (during the Iran Hostage Crisis), Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Governor Michael Dukakis, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Joe Biden, Reverend Jesse Jackson ...
He held early radio jobs in Erie and DuBois, Pennsylvania, subsequently becoming a weather forecaster on Erie's WJET-TV. [3] He then became a weekend-afternoon DJ at Pittsburgh's WTAE-AM. He joined WPXI, Pittsburgh's NBC affiliate, in September 1987 as part-time weatherman. In June 1990, he became a WPXI co-anchor on the Pittsburgh television ...