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After a radio interview in which his former girlfriend provided messages he had left on her phone answering machine, Richards became despondent. After delivering the 10pm weather report on the night of March 23, 1994, Richards took off from Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield, Missouri, and flew his plane, a Piper Cherokee, [3] into the ...
Anne Keefe (February 12, 1925 - December 29, 2015) was an American radio and television broadcaster and talk show host who worked in Rochester, New York and St. Louis, Missouri. She had a major role in radio and television for 50 years. [1] [2] The St. Louis Dispatch described her as a pioneer and a legend. [3]
Several members of the news department staff in its early years started at WBRC radio including news anchors Harry Mabry and Joe Langston (the latter of whom would also take on a management role as its director of news and editorial policy in 1969), and sports anchor Tom York. In 1969, former WSGN radio anchor Bill Bolen joined WBRC to replace ...
In 1969, Wilkerson got his first job on KMOX in St. Louis.He partnered with Bob Costas for the first year of St. Louis Spirits (), 1975–76.He served as a radio play-by-play announcer for St. Louis Cardinals ("Big Red") football from 1973 until the team left for Phoenix following the 1987 season, and returned for one season in 1994, the franchise's first as the Arizona Cardinals.
WBRC began airing the second hour of GMA in the early 1980s and only began airing the entire show in 1989 after York retired. After retiring from broadcast television, York was a weekly columnist for his hometown newspaper, The Hoover Gazette, from 2006 until shortly before the newspaper's demise in 2007. York won a regional Emmy Award in 1995.
This resulted in Lundy being hired as a full-time radio announcer by Hodding Carter for WDDT 1330 AM, the latter's new station in Greenville, Mississippi. [ 2 ] After a stop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana , at WLCS-AM , Lundy was brought to WIL-AM in St. Louis, Missouri , in 1960 by Dan Ingram , who was the station's program director until the ...
Early in his career, Lemon reported as a weekend news anchor for WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, and for WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.For several years he was an anchor and investigative reporter for Fox affiliate KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri, and Fox's Chicago affiliate. [14]
Mike Shannon (1939-2023), affiliated with St. Louis Cardinals for over 50 years, as a player (1962–1970), in front office, and, since 1972, radio and TV announcer; Scott Shannon (born 1947), a radio disk jockey hosting WCBS-FM in New York City. Augustus Shapleigh (1810–1902), president of Shapleigh Hardware Company and early pioneer of St ...