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WPXI was the first station to offer a 5:30 p.m. newscast in Pittsburgh from 1981 to 1984 (titled 5:30 Live); it was then revived in 1987 with the name Channel 11 News First Edition. It was also the first station to offer a 5 p.m. newscast in the early 1990s, titled Channel 11 News First at 5.
The station was verbally branded as "The WB, Channel 11" (simply adding The WB name to the "Channel 11" branding in use since 1986), until it was simplified to "The WB 11" in 1997, and further to "WB11" in 2000. Initially, WPIX's programming remained unchanged, as The WB had broadcast only prime time shows on Wednesday nights at its launch.
Mark Thompson moved from the station's 10 p.m. newscast to serve as its weather anchor; Dagny Hultgreen served as the entertainment anchor; and Suzanne Dunn was the traffic reporter, reporting from the station's news helicopter Sky 11 (now SkyFox). A weekend public affairs show with the same name aired during the 1980s.
A California native, Miranda served in the United States Air Force and worked as an air traffic controller in Korea. After the Air Force, Miranda attended California State University, East Bay, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications in 1985. [2]
Ted Koppel, ABC News; Bill Kurtis, former WBBM-TV anchor, now at CBS News; Nicole Lapin, CNN, CNN Pipeline, HLN; Matt Lauer, formerly of NBC News Today; Jim Lehrer (deceased), The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ; Don Lemon, formerly CNN; Dan Lewis, KOMO-TV News; Art Linkletter (deceased), KGB-AM radio, San Diego (1930s) Tom Llamas, WNBC-TV former ABC ...
She worked for KTVI-TV in St. Louis, for WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois, and for WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee, before her start in major network news. She worked for ABC News from 2000 to 2004, and as the Washington-based correspondent for Lou Dobbs Tonight .
Morning anchor Andrew Kinsey was promoted to the evening shift [22] while longtime reporter and fill-in anchor Tim Miller assumed morning anchor duties as of June 18, 2018. Longtime sports director Dan Cummins, a fixture at WTOL since 1980, also moved to the news desk and is co-anchor of the noon news. Jordan Strack was named the new sports ...
As a fill-in anchor, she was regularly seen on the station’s 18:30 newscast. In 1990, on joining Fox, she became the first journalist from a Spanish-language station to successfully "cross over" to English-language TV news. [1] In May 1991, Gonzalez spearheaded Fox 11’s On Our Toes programme.