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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 ...
[2] In 1970, Callender hosted (with Joan Harris, at its launch) the hour-long WNBC ‐TV (Channel 4) series Positively Black , which aired weekly, [ 5 ] featuring Black artists, writers, actors, musicians, sports figures and activists, as well as news about life and culture in the community.
He started at WNBC-TV in New York City in 1963 and became one of the city's first black television journalists and went on to work as a reporter, anchorman, and producer for more than three decades. [3] He retired from WNBC-TV in 1991. He wrote two books. "Live and Off-Color: News Biz (1982, A&W Publishers) is an autobiography.
Alma Vessells [Notes 1] was born on September 27, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Hattie (née Taylor) and Joseph Vessells. [3] [Notes 2] She came from a family of nine siblings, which struggled with poverty. [8] Her mother died when she was twelve and Vessells, as the oldest child, helped raise her younger siblings.
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 NewsCenter 4 (a format created for WNBC by pioneering news executive Lee Hanna) [35] was introduced in 1974, a time when channel 4 ran a distant third in the ...
She has been with WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), Milwaukee's NBC affiliate, since 1991. ... "Positively Milwaukee With Carole Meekins," starting February 2020 on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4). ... Faithe Colas and ...
Carolyn Gusoff (now at WCBS-TV/WLNY-TV) Steve Kornacki (later at MSNBC and NBC News) [12] Nancy Loo (later at NY1, and WABC-TV; now at NewsNation) Bonnie Schneider (later at Weather Channel and Weather.com) Lara Spencer (later with ABC News as co-anchor of Good Morning America) Melba Tolliver (former reporter/anchor for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV.)
A young mother teaching her son to read. A former college football player "on top of the world" living in New York City. An 18-year-old aspiring nurse. A father of two remembered as the "life of ...