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Trailblazing Los Angeles TV newswoman Ruth Ashton Taylor, a longtime reporter at KNXT (now KCAL News) passed away a few days ago at 101. She also worked alongside Edward R. Murrow and See it now.

 

 

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Was not sure whether to post this here or on our radio page of the forum… a broadcaster regardless… but one of the victims in the KC Super Bowl Parade shooting was a local radio host on KKFI-FM. 

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A sad day at KXAS.  Bobbie Wygant, who was a lifestyle/entertainment reporter, host, and even commercial pitch person back to the station's earliest days as WBAP, has passed. Bobbie had her own daytime midday show called Dateline for many years.  She participated in the local Jerry Lewis telethon segments for several of the years that KXAS carried the telethon. She had a longer presence in Dallas-Fort Worth media than anyone else.  Bobbie was 97, and will be missed.

 

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/trailblazing-nbc-5-reporter-bobbie-wygant-dies-at-97/3466101/

https://www.bobbiewygant.com

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3 hours ago, MD TV said:

Former WNEW and WPIX anchor Bill Jorgensen dead at 96:

 

https://deadline.com/2024/03/bill-jorgensen-dead-tv-anchor-wnew-new-york-was-96-obituary-1235860393/

 

Being with WPIX he was also one of the founding anchors of the Independent Network News.

Bill also worked at WTVN radio and WTVN-TV (WSYX) in Columbus, and KYW-TV (WKYC) and WEWS in Cleveland before going to New York.

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Harry J. Pappas, co-founder of Pappas Telecasting Companies (whose stations have since become part of Sinclair's broadcasting portfolio), died on April 24 in Reno, Nevada. He was 78.

 

https://deadline.com/2024/05/harry-j-pappas-dead-pappas-telecasting-companies-founder-1235910952/

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I’m watching KTLA’s livestream right now. It’s heartbreaking hearing about this. They’ve had celebrities and fellow entertainment journalists that knew him on the phone to talk and reminisce.

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This is shocking and sad. I admittedly hadn't watched the KTLA Morning News in probably 16 years since I dropped Dish Network who had a Superstations package but Sam Rubin was a reporter who didn't go too "tabloidy" with his entertainment reporting something ET and Access Hollywood has fallen into instead of reporting Entertainment news straight. RIP Sam. 

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