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As an African-American television reporter, Jenkins was an anchor and correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York for nearly 25 years. She reported from the floor of national presidential conventions from the 1970s to the 1990s, and from South Africa she reported on the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and co-produced an Emmy-nominated prime ...
By 1960, the New York radio stations reverted to WNBC-AM-FM and WRCA-TV became WNBC-TV. [135] In 1962, KRCA became KNBC, while KNBC-AM-FM in San Francisco became KNBR-AM-FM. [136] WNBQ in Chicago became WMAQ-TV in 1964. [137] NBC also purchased WKNB in New Britain, Connecticut, in late 1956, and WJAS and WJAS-FM in Pittsburgh, in 1957.
The host was Dorothy Gordon (born Dorothy Lerner, 1889–1970), who continued to host the show on WABD from the time the network closed in 1956 until 1958 when it moved to WRCA-TV (now WNBC). [1] The Times dropped sponsorship in 1960, at which point radio simulcasts moved from WQXR (AM) to WNBC (AM).
Their show was reformatted as Live at Five, and its mix of news, features and celebrity interviews would prove successful for much of the 1980s. Cafferty left WNBC-TV around Thanksgiving 1989 due to a contract dispute and at Christmas, he joined rival WNYW , where he anchored the Fox flagship station 's 7:00 p.m. news and a short-lived late ...
Mal Goode was the first black network journalist to work as a national television correspondent in the country. He was hired by ABC in 1962. Parker remembers how her father broke the news in their ...
Starting in 1979, he introduced WNBC-TV's nightly NewsCenter4. He would remain the announcer for the station's newscasts for much of its 1980-1995 run as News 4 New York . In addition, he announced for Live at Five for its first two years on the air, before Don Pardo took over the duties for that show.
Reynolds later hosted All Night with Joey Reynolds on WNBC-DT2, the digital subchannel of television station WNBC-TV known as "New York Nonstop." It was broadcast live from the NASDAQ site in Times Square at 43rd Street and Broadway. Reynolds was reunited with his former WNBC radio sidekick, Jay Sorensen, as the program's announcer.
He also handled occasional sign-offs and live tags, for the network's New York flagship station WNBC-TV and its radio sister stations (WNBC (AM), which became WFAN and WNBC-FM/WNWS/WYNY, later WQHT). Damon's radio announcing credits include Monitor , the original version of X Minus One , and The Eternal Light .