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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.
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.
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 ...
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]
Channel 2: WCBS-TV - - New York City, CBS New York or CBS 2; Channel 4: WNBC - - New York City, NBC 4 New York; Channel 5: WNYW - - New York City, FOX 5, WABD when it was the Flagship station of the DuMont Television Network, became WNEW before 1986; Channel 7: WABC-TV - - New York City, ABC 7 or Channel 7
In late 1946, WGR was bought by a consortium of Western New York families known as the WGR Corporation. 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.
This lack of local news programming ended on April 8, 2013, as the 10 p.m. newscast produced by NBC affiliate WGRZ channel 2 moved from WNYO-TV to WUTV. Along with the move, it was expanded to seven nights per-week, and the station also announced plans to air an encore of the final hour of WGRZ's morning show on a one-hour delay.
Station: WGR-TV/WGRZ Channel 2; Host: Ed Kilgore; Sites: Original—In studio. (It's believed that the set shared the same studio with the news set.) Revival—Dave & Buster's at the Eastern Hills Mall in Clarence, New York. A revival of Bowling for Dollars aired between January and February 2008 on WGRZ, also hosted by Kilgore. This version ...