24994J 5551 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Jack Taylor, the face of WGN News in the 1970's, died this weekend, age 94. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-282844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw-804 190 Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Former WVEC meteorologist Julie Wilcox passed away last month after a long illness. https://www.13newsnow.com/article/life/people/julie-wilcox-wvec-meteorologist-obit/291-1f4eb7be-e8ea-4607-a6fc-ab65665a6607 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-282889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 Longtime FOX 13 (WHBQ) reporter Tom Dees passed away after a long illness. https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/fox13-mourns-loss-tom-dees/M4RIRJWTWJFJ7A47JV4QU7XIRY/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-283174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCB4TV 347 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Tim McCarver, champion catcher turned famed MLB broadcaster, dies at 81 5 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-283408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amra 171 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Spectrum News 13's Dylan Lyons murdered while covering a shooting in Orlando yesterday. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-spectrum-news-13-dylan-lyons-orlando-shooting-death-20230223-2cdwkdy3vzc7hjfodnazvgw4ba-story.html 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-283728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Sad news out of Atlanta tonight. Dave Michaels, a longtime news anchor for 11Alive, CNN and other outlets died this month at 88 years old. His wife, Ann, contacted 11Alive on Friday and said he had passed away on Feb. 1 – after a long illness of Alzheimer's and congestive heart failure. He was at home in hospice care at the time he died. Michaels worked at WXIA from 1976 to 1985. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/community/dave-michaels-longtime-11alive-anchor-dies-88/85-fcb6b81f-8160-49f1-9a36-0fa3225721c9 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-283765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Sad news out of Detroit, former longtime WXYZ 7 Action News Sports Director Don Shane passed away at the age of 70. https://www.wxyz.com/sports/longtime-channel-7-sportscaster-don-shane-has-died 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-283778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town TV Fan 211 Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Legendary WKTV News anchor Bill Worden died on March 8th at the age of 80. Beloved longtime NewsChannel 2 anchor, Bill Worden, passes away at 80 | Community | wktv.com 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-284549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town TV Fan 211 Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Former WGEM news anchor Lesley Swick Van Ness passed away suddenly this week at age 42 while vacationing with her family. Remembering Lesley Swick Van Ness (wgem.com) 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-285456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 937 Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 Jerry Springer died today at age 79. His impact on television was undeniable. 8 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-285838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFTV 525 Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Former KUSI and FOX 5 anchor Paul Bloom has Died https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/former-fox-5-anchor-paul-bloom-dies/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR0ZpcZ_ii5QNy4OkxBH8eO9KLVLAMoxfbKO_Ci1x3jjIzg--0GKAjln0dw 1 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-286160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvnewsfan 2 Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Sad news out of Los Angeles, longtime KTTV news reporter Tony Valdez has passed away. I grew up watching him in Los Angeles for many years and he was a true Los Angeles Historian. Our condolences to his family. He will be missed. Speaking of Paul Bloom, he worked at KHJ-TV in the 1980s, along with two other recently deceased anchors Tom Lawrence and Wendy Gordon. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-286196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3931 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Newton Minow, the former FCC chairman who once coined television as a "vast wasteland" has died. https://tvnewscheck.com/regulation/article/newton-minow-former-fcc-chief-who-dubbed-tv-a-vast-wasteland-dies/ During his time, he championed the passage of the All-channel receivers act, mandating that all televisions had the ability to receive the UHF band, as well as helping lay the groundwork for NET and later, PBS. The "S.S. Minnow" on Gilligan's Island was coined after him, in jest to his "vast wasteland" remarks. A minnow being a small fish, helped to make the name stick. 1 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-286274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Former longtime WNEW/WNYW FOX 5 News anchor John Roland passed away. Condolences go out to The Roland Family and to his extended family at New York's FOX 5. RIP John and Godspeed. And say hello to Bill McCreary from all of us here. I know that they're now reunited in heaven and anchoring the news together again. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/john-roland-fox-5-anchor-passes-away Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-286286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYTV 117 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 17 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said: Former longtime WNEW/WNYW FOX 5 News anchor John Roland passed away. Condolences go out to The Roland Family and to his extended family at New York's FOX 5. RIP John and Godspeed. And say hello to Bill McCreary from all of us here. I know that they're now reunited in heaven and anchoring the news together again. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/john-roland-fox-5-anchor-passes-away Here's his former co-anchor Rosanna Scotto with the report. 4 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-286287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD TV 253 Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 Sam Zell, onetime owner of the Tribune Company, dead at 81: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-18/sam-zell-billionaire-investor-called-grave-dancer-dies-at-81 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-286681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 A Salt Lake City news legend is gone. Dick Nourse the longtime anchor of KSL 5 (Eyewitness) News has passed away at the age of 83. Dick was a Utah Institution alongside weatherman Bob Welti and sportscaster Paul James and became the #1 rated news team in Salt Lake City. Nourse worked alongside many KSL legends like Shelly Thomas, Bruce Lindsay, Carole Mikita, Craig Bolerjack, Keith McCord and the list goes on and on. Prayers and condolences go out to the family of Dick Nourse and the staff and management of KSL 5 (Eyewitness) News at this challenging time. https://ksltv.com/551381/tv-legend-and-longtime-ksl-anchor-dick-nourse-has-died-at-83/ Dick may your memory and legacy of SLC television news lives on in spirit and say hi to Welti and James from all of us here. RIP and Godspeed, you are in a better place. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-286700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3931 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 Pat Robertson, the founder of CBN has passed away at age 93. https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e Take this as you will, just so everyone sees this as they see fit, may he RIH. 3 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rollo Smokes 260 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 10 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: Pat Robertson, the founder of CBN has passed away at age 93. https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e Take this as you will, just so everyone sees this as they see fit, may he RIH. Anyone wanna take bets on which "H" he's headed to? (Both of which are non-existant, but that's my opinion and Schwarzenegger's.) But aside from the polarizing aspects of his political activism and religious mission, Pat Robertson should be remembered as a pioneer of religious television. CBN started with WYAH-TV (WGNT) in Hampton Roads, in 1961. WYAH was all-religious at the outset, though it evolved into a general-entertainment independent with a jones for censorship. The other three CBN TV stations–Robertson launched WHAE-TV (WANF) in Atlanta in 1971; bought KXTX-TV in Dallas in '73, and signed-on WXNE-TV (WFXT) in Boston in '77–followed that model until CBN broke up the group in the 1980s. CBN also owned five Christian FM outlets, in Hampton Roads and a four-station network in upstate New York. And of course, there is the cable channel now known as Freeform, which much to ours and Disney's chagrin will be forced to carry Robertson's legacy, The 700 Club from now until the "Second Coming". 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1513 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 3 hours ago, Big Rollo Smokes said: And of course, there is the cable channel now known as Freeform, which much to ours and Disney's chagrin will be forced to carry Robertson's legacy, The 700 Club from now until the "Second Coming". I'm not entirely sure about that. It looks like CBN has a fairly well-developed streaming video service that's on multiple platforms, but it's hard to find any info about watching The 700 Club on broadcast or cable. In fact, I've only been able to find two mentions of Freeform -- one on the media kit page for the show, the other on a page that looks like it's not actively part of the site. As for broadcast stations, I think that's just TBN, where it airs mid-afternoon. I got the distinct feeling that CBN has minimized its dependency on Freeform, thus leaving the door open to leaving the channel. Which makes me wonder if Robertson himself was the main reason the show was still there. Basically, I could see Disney paying CBN a not insignificant amount of money sometime in the next year to leave Freeform -- or at least drop one or two of the three airings. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowBergen 679 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 3 hours ago, mre29 said: Basically, I could see Disney paying CBN a not insignificant amount of money sometime in the next year to leave Freeform -- or at least drop one or two of the three airings. I would assume if they could they would have already. With Robertson now gone, maybe CBN will be more receptive. 1 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rollo Smokes 260 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, NowBergen said: I would assume if they could they would have already. With Robertson now gone, maybe CBN will be more receptive. I would hope so, but Gordon Robertson doesn't seem all that much different from his father in that regard. But couldn't Disney simply sunset Freeform as a linear channel and convert it into a streaming-only service? That could be a way to get CBN out of their hair once and for all. Edited June 10, 2023 by Big Rollo Smokes 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Sad news out of Jacksonville. A First Coast weather legend is gone. Longtime WJXT Meteorologist George Winterling has passed away at the age pf 91. Winterling was WJXT's Chief Meteorologist from 1962 till his retirement in 2009. Prayers and condolences go out to the family of George Winterling and to his extended family at WJXT News4Jax (Formerly: Channel 4 Eyewitness News). RIP George, Godspeed, and say hi to Glen Wood (Woody) from all of us here. https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/06/22/longtime-meteorologist-george-winterling-dies-at-91/ https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/weather/channel-4s-george-winterling-groundbreaking-tv-meteorologist-dies-wednesday/77-48b25f9f-16bf-4dc5-b806-53e5e64319d7 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3292 Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Former KDFW meteorologist Ron Jackson has passed away at 65. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
east-tx-tv 120 Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Georgie56 said: Former KDFW meteorologist Ron Jackson has passed away at 65. According to the posted link, Ron was 67. Either way, a sad surprise. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/23/#findComment-287993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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