TheRob 938 Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 (edited) Unfortunately, a lot of the speculators out there have seized on the Clinton angle in regard to Mr. Sign. Very sad. I feel badly for his kids, now having to grow up without their father. Edited June 13, 2021 by TheRob 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-261160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3955 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) A very class move by the stations in Birmingham, to help out ABC 33/40 so they were able to attend the funeral of Christopher Sign: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=355015712651216&set=a.207048637447925 Edited June 17, 2021 by tyrannical bastard 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-261313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 938 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 He appeared in a lot of late-night ESPN telecasts too. 6 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-261386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin2kx 237 Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 (edited) Former anchor at Univision Chicago (WGBO), Noticiero Univision + Telemundo Chicago (WSNS), Edna Schmidt died June 24 at her home in native Puerto Rico. She was 51. Her struggle with alcoholism were well documented, which ended her time at Univision in 2011. Last seen at Telemundo Chicago in 2014, where she later ended up suing them for discrimination. No official word on the cause of death, although her former colleague stated she suffered from a fall. https://www.chicagotribune.com/espanol/entretenimiento/sns-es-edna-schmidt-univision-chicago-periodista-television-20210625-o2ngduzf7jabfl67rob7gsprta-story.html (couldn't find any suitable english article. If possible, google translate it) Edited June 26, 2021 by justin2kx 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-261666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 938 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-261981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Former WNEP Anchor/Reporter Jill Garnett has passed away. https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/former-newswatch-16-anchor-jill-garrett-has-died/523-1ab19aa8-7682-48a6-8f3e-fddfb62c6f57 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-261999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillynewslover 134 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Former WPVI assignment editor Eric Hughes passed away last night. He had a pulmonary illness for the past several years. Prayers to his family. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-262031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFloTVClassics 976 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Former WPLG reporter and anchorwoman Jilda Unruh has passed away at the age of 65. https://www.local10.com/station/2021/07/09/former-local-10-news-anchor-jilda-unruh-dies-at-65/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-262074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Sad news out of Albuquerque, longtime KOAT-TV weatherman Howard Morgan pas passed away at the age of 91. https://www.koat.com/article/longtime-koat-weatherman-howard-morgan-dies-at-91/37102857 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-262593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoseRM303 171 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 WBZ editor Jim Murphy died suddenly last week of a heart attack at 44 https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wbz-editor-dies-of-heart-attack-at-44/233362/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-262810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Sad day in Birmingham, longtime WBRC personality Tom York passed away yesterday at the age of 96. https://www.wbrc.com/2021/08/02/wbrc-tv-legend-tom-york-passes-away/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-262971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town TV Fan 219 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Former KTRK ABC 13 reporter Stuart Stanley died last weekend at the age of 56: mikemcguff.com: Stuart Stanley has died 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartheJokester 27 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Jeanetta Jones, a former OCM on the weather channel from the 80s to the mid 2000s has passed from Coronavirus. 4 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 596 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) Lisa Schaffner, former longtime anchor for WRIC, has passed away at 59. https://twitter.com/8news/status/1428698966091259907 Edited August 20, 2021 by Ntropolis 5 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 511 Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Bob Rogers, the legendary KENS-TV news director who led the station to market dominance in the 1970s and 80s, died from heart failure earlier this week. He was 87. https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/bob-rogers-obituary-kens-5-community/273-1971eca3-c5ec-481c-9c6d-7ab92b7b299f 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartheJokester 27 Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 A former meteorologist from WALB and WFXL died this morning. He was at WFXL from 2007 to November 2017. https://wfxl.com/news/local/former-walb-fox-31-meteorologist-chris-nisinger-dies-at-49 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 938 Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 This goes back a ways; I think Dobyns retired from TV in the late 1980s. ----- MEBANE, N.C. (AP) - Lloyd Dobyns Jr., an award-winning NBC News correspondent who reported from places around the world and who anchored an innovative U.S. television newscast in the early 1980s, has died, his family said. He was 85. Ken Dobyns said in a statement that his father died Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, northwest of Raleigh. He said his father suffered complications from a series of strokes. Dobyns worked for NBC News in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and was known in the U.S. for working with Linda Ellerbee on the late-night news series “NBC News Overnight” in 1982 and 1983, according to a statement released by Ken Dobyns and online with a Raleigh funeral home. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 I'm sad to announce that legendary EMMY award winning actor Edward Asner, the man that played tv news director turned newspaper editor Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and his own spinoff series "Lou Grant" has passed away of natural causes. Asner was 91 years old. https://tvline.com/2021/08/29/ed-asner-dead-mary-tyler-moore-show-lou-grant/ 5 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3955 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 hours ago, TexasTVNews said: I'm sad to announce that legendary EMMY award winning actor Edward Asner, the man that played tv news director turned newspaper editor Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and his own spinoff series "Lou Grant" has passed away of natural causes. Asner was 91 years old. https://tvline.com/2021/08/29/ed-asner-dead-mary-tyler-moore-show-lou-grant/ Even though Ed Asner played a fictional character on both shows, his "Lou Grant" character gave millions of Americans a view into a newsroom and how it works. Through his gruff and caring sides, it showed that a news director was a person too, and had the same life struggles along with their job duties. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiveNews 372 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 RIP Mr. Asner. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3955 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 I wish I could find the KSTP promos he did in the 2000s. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-263978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodfreyGR 652 Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Not directly a broadcaster, but it's big enough in MN that competitors are covering the death of former WCCO Sports Anchor Mark Rosen's wife after a long battle with cancer. (Rosen is now with KFAN Radio) https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/08/31/my-heart-is-aching-mark-rosen-announces-wife-denise-passed-peacefully/ https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/denise-rosen-dies-cancer-battle-wcco-mark-rosen/89-c7de92a3-8149-4f8d-b936-c1d8752f1aa6 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-264115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2896 Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 KLAS veteran Gary Waddell has died of a heart attack while battling COVID-19 in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 77. According to the linked article, he was fully vaccinated but suffered a breakthrough case. 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-264302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFloTVClassics 976 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 (edited) Very sad news. Longtime Today show weatherman Willard Scott has passed away at the age of 87. https://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/willard-scott-legendary-today-weatherman-dies-at-87/2544452/ We send our condolences to Willard's family, and thank you for giving us the best history making, entertaining, and charming weatherman. Edited September 4, 2021 by SoFloTVClassics 6 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-264358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHSgoodiesWA 307 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 A compilation of Smuckers Birthdays in honor of Willard. I will miss you forever and so will millions. Whether you were getting ready to go to work, or if you were a little kid watching the Macy's Parade with mom and dad, Willard was a presence that NBC can never replace. RIP forever, Willard. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/18066-in-memoriam/page/16/#findComment-264363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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