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WKBW-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company , the station maintains studios at 7 Broadcast Plaza in downtown Buffalo and a transmitter on Center Street in Colden .
Irwin B. "Irv" Weinstein (April 29, 1930 – December 26, 2017) [1] was an American local television news anchor and occasional radio actor. He hosted WKBW-TV's Eyewitness News in Buffalo, New York, for 34 years, from 1964 to 1998, becoming an iconic broadcaster well known in both the Buffalo area and in Southern Ontario, which was within WKBW's broadcast area. [2]
Tom Jolls (August 6, 1933 – June 7, 2023) was an American television personality best known for his 34-year tenure at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York.At WKBW, Jolls hosted "The Weather Outside" segments during Eyewitness News, performed many of the station's voiceovers, and served as host of the children's television show, the Commander Tom Show.
Channel 2: WCBS-TV - - New York City, CBS New York or CBS 2; Channel 4: WNBC - - New York City, NBC 4 New York; Channel 5: WNYW - - New York City, FOX 5, WABD when it was the Flagship station of the DuMont Television Network, became WNEW before 1986; Channel 7: WABC-TV - - New York City, ABC 7 or Channel 7
Off Beat Cinema was created by advertising executive James Gillan and is co-written by Gillan and creative consultant Jeffrey Roberts. It originally started airing in 1993 in the Buffalo/Toronto area on WKBW-TV.
The Commander Tom Show was a children's television series that aired weekday afternoons on Channel 7 WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, premiering on December 20, 1965. [1]The host of the show was Tom Jolls, who had joined WKBW as a weatherman earlier in 1965.
Michael E. Randall (born November 2, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, meteorologist and reporter from Buffalo, New York.He is best known within his native Western New York for his long run on WKBW-TV, where was an on-air personality for 40 years from 1983 to 2023 and was the chief meteorologist from 1999 to 2013, and outside Western New York for his stage shows.
In 1961, Roberts joined WKBW-TV as the station's weatherman and as the host of the children's show Rocketship 7, as well as hosting Dialing for Dollars. In Buffalo, because the use of ethnic surnames was at that time discouraged, [1] he temporarily adopted David Thomas as his stage name.