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Johnson was not out of work for long, as he and his WCBS co-anchor Michele Marsh were hired by WNBC to anchor the station's new noon newscast. [7] After a year, however, Johnson left WNBC to care for his father who was dying of cancer, [2] and never returned to TV. During his 30-year television news career, Johnson won nine Emmys and numerous ...
Bennett also produced a number of sold out live comedy shows. During the 1980s, Bennett was the original host of public television's "Comedy Tonight." [17] In the 1990s won a local San Francisco Emmy Award for his work on "Log On TV" on KGO-TV 7. Bennett was fired after a few years at Live 105, but was back after nine months.
Marsh was one of several personalities abruptly fired by WCBS-TV in October 1996 as part of a management-ordered shakeup of the station's news department due to declining ratings. [14] [15] Along with John Johnson, she was quickly hired by WNBC-TV to anchor a new midday newscast for the station. [16]
During the 1960s, WCBS-TV battled WNBC-TV (channel 4) for the top-rated news department in New York City. After WABC-TV (channel 7) introduced Eyewitness News in the late 1960s, WCBS-TV went back and forth in first place with Channel 7, in a rivalry that continued through the 1970s. For much of the early 1980s, New York's "Big Three" stations ...
News anchor Joshua Johnson is saying goodbye, for now, to NBC News after a year of leading his nightly news The post Joshua Johnson exits ‘Now Tonight with Joshua Johnson’ on NBC after almost ...
The 5 p.m. edition of WABC-TV (channel 7)'s Channel 7 Eyewitness News also had two female anchors; first with veterans Roz Abrams and Diana Williams, then with Sade Baderinwa when Abrams left for WCBS-TV in 2004; and in April 2006, WCBS switched to the two-female-anchor format at 5 p.m. with Roz Abrams and Mary Calvi, who anchored together ...
WABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, WABC-TV maintains studios in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan , co-located with ABC's corporate headquarters.
Senior correspondent Gabe Pressman was at the station from 1956 until his death in 2017, save for a seven-year stint (from 1972 to 1979) at WNEW-TV (now WNYW). WNBC-TV was the first station on the East Coast to air a two-hour nightly newscast, [33] and the first major-market station in the country to find success in airing a 5 p.m. report, when ...