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Sue Simmons (born May 27, 1942) [1] is an American retired news anchor who was best known for being the lead female anchor at WNBC in New York City from 1980 to 2012. Her contract with WNBC expired in June 2012 and WNBC announced that it would not renew it. Her final broadcast was on June 15, 2012, shortly after her 70th birthday. [2]
Marsh was one of several personalities abruptly fired by WCBS-TV in October 1996 as part of a management-ordered shakeup of the station's news department due to declining ratings. [14] [15] Along with John Johnson, she was quickly hired by WNBC-TV to anchor a new midday newscast for the station. [16]
WNBC-TV was the first station on the East Coast to air a two-hour nightly newscast, [33] and the first major-market station in the country to find success in airing a 5 p.m. report, when NewsCenter 4 (a format created for WNBC by pioneering news executive Lee Hanna) [35] was introduced in 1974, a time when channel 4 ran a distant third in the ...
She became New York's first television helicopter traffic reporter at WNBC-TV in 1995. She was also a general assignment reporter for Live At Five, the 6 and 11 o'clock news and Weekend Today. Fiducia began her career at Shadow Traffic in New York. She went on to report from WNBC Radio's "N Copter", where she worked daily with Howard Stern and ...
In 2009, Tur joined NBC's local station in New York City, WNBC-TV, and then rose to the flagship NBC News at the national network level. [10] That year she was awarded AP’s Best Spot News Award for coverage of the March 2008 crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Bill Wolff (1927–2014), announcer for the soap opera Another World from 1964 to 1987, as well as WNBC staff announcer. Casey Kasem (1932–2014), West Coast announcer for NBC Television and staffer for KNBC. Hosted American Top 40 popular music countdown show from 1970 to 2009
originally voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, fired in 2011; now voiced by Daniel McKeague. [2] The Ajax pixies: Ajax cleanser: 1948–1950s: speaking voices are Joe Silver, Hans Conreid and June Foray: The White Knight: Ajax detergent: debuted 1963: Speedy Alka-Seltzer: Alka-Seltzer: 1952–1964, 2010–present: voiced by Dick Beals: Mayhem ...
An advertising agency offered her a shot, and she found that she had a natural talent for commercials. Making $150 a week at first, Furness did three Westinghouse commercials (they were the sole sponsor of the show) for every episode of Studio One, all of them shot live, since videotape did not yet exist. (One live spot featured a refrigerator ...