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In 1971, WOR-TV launched its first live newscast, the News at Noon, which was also the first midday newscast in the New York City market. Tom Dunn, previously of WABC, was the lead anchor. In 1983, following the move to New Jersey, channel 9 launched a nightly 8 p.m. newscast called News 9: Primetime. After the MCA takeover in 1987, the 8 p.m ...
Among his duties at WOR was anchoring the long-running News at Noon. He later worked for WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, where he did weekend evening and late night news until his retirement in the late 1990s. Dunn died of esophageal cancer in Stuart, Florida on July 2, 2006. His wife, Anna Dunn, reported that Richard Nixon asked Dunn to be his ...
WWOR-TV, channel 9, a television station in Secaucus, New Jersey serving Greater New York City; WWOR EMI Service, the national version of WWOR-TV available nationwide via cable and satellite from 1990 to 1996; WHTT-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Buffalo, New York, which previously held the call sign WWOR
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Gray was a pioneer in early television broadcasts, first as the host of The Barry Gray Show on New York's WOR-TV when Channel 9 went on the air in 1949, then more visibly as host of the first Goodson and Todman game show Winner Take All, replacing Bud Collyer in 1951.
The fourth-oldest station in the nation's capital, channel 9 was originally owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, a subsidiary of R. H. Macy and Company. [7] Bamberger also owned WOR-AM-FM in New York City, and was working to put WOR-TV (channel 9, now WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey) on the air at the same time.
Kessler was hired by WWOR-TV in 1976 as a reporter and became co-anchor of "News at Noon," with anchorman Tom Dunn later that year. She also co-anchored the station's "News 9 PrimeTime," which was an 8 PM newscast, from 1983-1987. When WWOR-TV switched to a 10 PM newscast in late 1987, Kessler became solo anchor of the "News at Noon."