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WJZ-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, and maintains studios and offices on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, adjacent to the transmission tower it shares with several other Baltimore broadcast outlets.
Jerry Turner (August 6, 1929 – December 31, 1987) was an American television news anchorman at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland.He was from Meridian, Mississippi and began working at the Baltimore television station in August 1962, starting the 6PM Newscast with Al Sanders in 1977.
Sanders joined WJZ-TV in 1972. Five years later, he would replace Oprah Winfrey as Jerry Turner's co-anchor. [2] Turner and Sanders were Baltimore's top news team until 1987, when Turner succumbed to esophageal cancer. Denise Koch joined Sanders on the anchor desk as a fill-in, gaining the role permanently in 1988.
His Sunday morning public affairs forum Square Off, which he had hosted for many years on WJZ, continued on WMAR-TV. In 2015, Sher began hosting a game show at the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore. The show was named People Are Winning, as "a nod to People Are Talking, the long-running morning show that Sher hosted on WJZ-TV."
Thorner in 2000. Sally Thorner is a retired television news journalist who was a reporter and an anchor for several different markets over the course of 30 years. Although she worked in both Springfield, Massachusetts, and Wichita, Kansas, Thorner is primarily known as an anchor in Baltimore, Maryland, where she was on WMAR for ten years before joining WJZ-TV in 1993.
King began her career as a production assistant at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, where she met Oprah Winfrey, an anchor for the station at the time.King later trained as a reporter at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. [7] [8] After working at WJZ, she moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she was a weekend anchor and general-assignment reporter at WDAF-TV. [9]
In 1978, she became the nightly sports anchor for WDIV-TV in Detroit. At the time of her hiring she was the only woman to serve as a daily sports anchor in a top-10 market. [8] She then worked as a reporter and weekend sports anchor for WJZ-TV in Baltimore. [9] After being hired by ESPN in 1983, Gardner served as a SportsCenter anchor
Adam May is a former television news anchor and reporter, best known for his work on Al Jazeera America and with WJZ-TV and WBAL-TV in Baltimore. He was previously lead contributor to Al Jazeera America's flagship show, America Tonight. May was also previously an anchor and reporter at Baltimore's CBS-owned station, WJZ-TV. [1]