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The current brand, Channel 2 News, dates to the 1980s and early 1990. WGRZ was the first in the market to adopt a 5 p.m. newscast (hence the newscast retaining its title "First at Five" ever since). In the early 1990s, WGRZ-TV used the "24 Hour News Source" format, providing news briefs each hour outside of regular newscasts.
In 2009, Beard returned to Buffalo and began anchoring for Channel 2 News Daybreak and Midday on WGRZ, an NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc. While anchor, WGRZ's morning newscast, Daybreak vaulted into first place in Buffalo's Nielsen ratings. [7] On November 1, 2016 it was announced that John Beard would be leaving WGRZ at the end of the year. [8]
O'Connell was chief weather anchor for WGRZ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Buffalo, New York, from the mid-1990s until 2018. [2] O'Connell also sub-hosted on The David Letterman Show on NBC, hosted the game show Go on NBC from October 1983 to January 1984, and presented the syndicated disco series Disco Step-by-Step from 1977 to 1980.
English: WGRZ-TV's studio facility at 259 Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo, New York, as seen in August 2021. Broadcasting on Channel 2 and an affiliate of the NBC network for all but the first four years of its history, WGR-TV (as it was originally known) signed on the air in 1954 from studios located in what's now the Jericho Road Community Health Center.
Channel 2: WGRZ - - Buffalo, 2 On Your Side.Originally WGR prior to 1983. Channel 4: WIVB-TV - - Buffalo, News 4.Call letters stand for We're IV 4 Buffalo; originally WBEN-TV until 1977
Demler anchors Channel 2 News at 5:00, 6:00,7:00,10:00, and 11:00. She joined Channel 2 in September 1993. She attended Niagara University, graduating in 1986 with a B. A. in Political Science, and a B. A. in French. [4] She won the title of Miss New York in 1990 [5] and participated in Miss America 1991 on September 7, 1990. On April 18, 2010 ...
WGRZ-TV: Ted Darling: Jim Lorentz or Mike Robitaille: Ed Kilgore: 1984–85: WGRZ-TV: Ted Darling: Jim Lorentz: Ed Kilgore: 1983–84: WGRZ-TV: Ted Darling: Jim Lorentz: Ed Kilgore: 1982–83: WGR-TV: Ted Darling: Paul Wieland and Jim Lorentz: Ed Kilgore: 1981–82: WGR-TV: Ted Darling: Paul Wieland and Jim Lorentz: Ed Kilgore: 1980–81: WGR ...
This company signed on WGR-TV (channel 2) in 1953 and WGR-FM (now WGRF) in 1959. WGR Corporation bought several other television and radio stations in the 1950s, and eventually became known as Transcontinent Broadcasting. Transcontinent merged with Taft Broadcasting in 1964. Taft sold off WGR-TV in 1983.