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William Robert Cardille (December 10, 1928 – July 21, 2016), also known as "Chilly Billy", was an American broadcast personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He was well known to regional viewers as a late-night horror host, but is perhaps more widely remembered for his appearance in George A. Romero's landmark zombie film Night of the Living Dead (1968), portraying a fictional version of ...
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Patricia Jeanne Burns (January 27, 1952 – October 31, 2001) was an American journalist and television news anchor.. Burns was a familiar face to television audiences in Pittsburgh, where she worked for many years for KDKA-TV, a station for which her father, Bill Burns, was also a journalist and anchor.
Jim Quinn – radio talk show host; Martha Rial – 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography; Rick Sebak – WQED documentarian; Paul Shannon – host of WTAE-TV children's show Adventure Time; John Stehr – anchorman at WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana; Bari Weiss – opinion writer and editor
Stan Savran (born Stanley George Savransky; February 25, 1947 – June 12, 2023) was an American media personality based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] He was a member of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame and a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates Media Wall of Fame. [3] [4]
Limbaugh worked at KQV and at WIXZ in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, as a disc jockey under the name Jeff Christie. Quinn is best remembered in the Pittsburgh area as the vociferous nighttime host on KQV radio in the 1960s, during the station's peak as a Top 40 power. Quinn was hired from WING/Dayton in 1967 and had an immediate impact on the market.
George Jacob Chedwick (he later informally changed his first name to "Craig") was born on February 4, 1918, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, one of ten children of Theodore Chedwick (d. 1970), a steelworker. George's mother died when he was still a child.
Among colleagues, Burns was beloved for his gruff sense of humor and admired for his near photographic recall of details of news stories and the arcania of Pennsylvania politics. It was Bill Burns who broke into KDKA's broadcast of The Mike Douglas Show around 1:40 p.m. on November 22, 1963 (KDKA pre-empted CBS' As the World Turns during that ...