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Roger Olin Grimsby (September 23, 1928 – June 23, 1995) was an American journalist, television news anchor and actor.Grimsby, who for eighteen years was seen on ABC's flagship station WABC in New York City, is known as one of the pioneers of local television broadcast news.
Despite this report, a week later, WABC told the press that no final decision had been made. Protests were being held in front of the ABC headquarters from the National Organization for Women (NOW), who demanded that Antoine be fired. [18] The decision was announced on December 18 to reinstate Antoine in a non-televised role.
WABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.
Beutel returned to WABC-TV and Eyewitness News, though he maintained a presence on the network as the anchor of its 15-minute late newscasts on Saturday and Sunday nights through the late 1970s. The reformed Grimsby-Beutel team kept Eyewitness News on top of the ratings through the middle 1980s, when it briefly fell to last place. Though the ...
She moved to the 6 p.m. newscast, rotating the anchor chair with John Johnson alongside Bill Beutel after Roger Grimsby was fired in 1986, [8] while still co-anchoring the 11 p.m. broadcast with Anastos until he left for WCBS in 1989. Eventually her sole anchor role was the 11 p.m. news, as Beutel became solo anchor of the 6 p.m. broadcast.
Kane would leave WPVI in 1977, in order to take daily limousine trips to New York City and join WABC-TV. Kane was an anchor on New York's WABC-TV's Eyewitness News for one year from 1977 to 1978; during that time, he was the lead anchor the night after the infamous New York City blackout of 1977 [7] and also anchored news updates for ABC News.
Storm Field's first foray into weather-casting came as part of WABC-TV's Eyewitness News program. Hired by the station in March 1976, he first appeared on television when covering Hurricane Belle, followed by working when Tex Antoine was ill. Field did the weekend weather broadcasts as well as the 11:00 PM weather broadcast on weekdays. [1]
wabc-tv (2003–present) Folasade Olayinka Baderinwa (born April 14, 1969), known professionally as Sade Baderinwa ( / ˈ ʃ ɑː d eɪ ˈ b ɑː d ər ɪ n w ɑː / SHAH -day BAH -dər-in-wah ), is an American broadcast journalist .