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Columbus weather legend Jym Ganahl has passed at 76. He came to WCMH in 1979 from KWWL, one of the youngest TV meteorologists in the nation.  He 'retired" from WCMH in 2016. After a year, he returned to the air on WSYX/WTTE, retiring last year. 

 

This is a huge loss. His 'weather lore' was the best. RIP Jym. 

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23 hours ago, 10Viewer said:

Columbus weather legend Jym Ganahl has passed at 76. He came to WCMH in 1979 from KWWL, one of the youngest TV meteorologists in the nation.  He 'retired" from WCMH in 2016. After a year, he returned to the air on WSYX/WTTE, retiring last year. 

 

This is a huge loss. His 'weather lore' was the best. RIP Jym. 

A major loss for sure and one of the legends of the Columbus TV market.  I still think he was pushed out at WCMH and his return to TV was as soon as he was able to.  One of the many reasons ABC 6 & FOX 28 have become the new stations of record after NBC4 and 10TV's missteps and selling out to the highest bidder.

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On 2/12/2025 at 5:51 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

I still think he was pushed out at WCMH and his return to TV was as soon as he was able to.  

 

There was that episode back in 2008, IIRC, where they hired another meteorologist to tag team the weather with Jym. It was a huge mistake. He certainly went through ups and downs at WCMH. A great man indeed.  

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Margie Ison, a beloved WBIR-TV Channel 10 Knoxville member from 1979 until her 1995 retirement, has passed away. She was 84.

 

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/longtime-wbir-meteorologist-margie-ison-dies-at-84/51-237334f6-3cd9-4a28-aaed-23bfff88427e

 

 

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19 hours ago, J.W. Rodriguez said:

 

I'm not a hardcore hockey fan, but amongst the great voices in the history of the NHL, he was one of the most identifiable ever.  Pittsburgh and Penguins fans will forever cherish him.  RIP.

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Cross-posting from the Philly forum, former WPVI-er (edit: and KYW-er for a time) Dave Frankel is dead at 67.

 

https://6abc.com/post/fmr-action-news-weathercaster-reporter-dave-frankel-dies-67/15957608/

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Forgot he also anchored at KYW
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One of Cincinnati's all-time great sportscasters, Greg Hoard, has passed away. He was 73.

 

He spent a good amount of time at WLWT (working with Jerry Springer and Norma Rashid) before becoming WXIX's first-ever sports anchor in 1993 and staying there until 2004 to return to print journalism.

 

https://www.fox19.com/2025/03/01/greg-hoard-first-fox19-now-sports-anchor-dies-73/

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I just came across this. Steve Bosh who spent 30 years at KUSI in San Diego has passed away. He also notably co-anchored Independent News Network INN News and WPIX Action News in New York with Pat Harper.

 

https://fox5sandiego.com/video/remembering-steve-bosh-kusi-reporter-passes-away-at-85/10478323/

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12 hours ago, FJ2000 said:

I just came across this. Steve Bosh who spent 30 years at KUSI in San Diego has passed away. He also notably co-anchored Independent News Network INN News and WPIX Action News in New York with Pat Harper.

 

https://fox5sandiego.com/video/remembering-steve-bosh-kusi-reporter-passes-away-at-85/10478323/

 

Bosh was Clarice Tinsley's co-anchor at KDFW from 1984 to 1990. RIP Bosh and Godspeed. 

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From the Tyler/Longview market comes news of the passing of Horace McQueen.  He was the longtime host of Farm and Ranch News, an early morning staple on KLTV and KTRE in the years long before there were early morning shows.  From cattle auction results to ads for Evergreen and Lone Star Feeds, local viewers were assured of a good dose of ag news.  McQueen was 86.

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A sad day to report on SoCal broadcasting. Ed Arnold has died. I know lists aren't allowed but please allow this exception because he truly did it all in his 60 YEARS of service to broadcasting in SoCal...

  • Joined KTLA in the late 1960s as announcer/sportscaster.
  • Joined KABC in 1975, but left in 1986.
  • Returned to KTLA in 1986 and stayed until 1999.
  • The voice of KCET.
  • Sports personality for 1110 KRLA (now KWVE), 97.1 KHTZ (now KNX-FM), and 710 KMPC (now KSPN).
  • Co-host and managing editor of Real Orange for KOCE.
  • Announcer for the internationally televised Hour of Power religious program.

He died last Thursday after suffering from heart disease for many years. He was 86. 😔😖😞😓

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ed-arnold-dead-broadcaster-los-angeles-tv-stations-ktla-kabc-1236189868/

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Another legendary television and radio personality passes on, this time Wink Martindale

 

Mr. Martindale passed away today at the age of 91, at Eisenhower Health Center in Rancho Mirage, California (near Palm Springs).  He was a radio personality for many decades, but most notably he was the host of various game shows including Gambit, Debt, Headline Chasers (a show he co-created with Merv Griffin), the 1987-88 version of High Rollers, and the show that perhaps made him more famous--Tic Tac Dough.  He was also one of the first media personalities that helped introduced Elvis Presley in the mid-50s, when Martindale hosted a local dance show on WHBQ-TV in Memphis, and brought Presley on as a guest performer.

 

In later years, he and a couple of associates maintained a YouTube channel that features old and obscure game shows, including dozens of pilots that didn't become series.

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