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Milana Vayntrub was born on March 8, 1987, to a secular Ashkenazi Jewish family in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then a Soviet republic. [5] [6] Her grandparents were from Ukraine.[7] [8] When she was two years old, she and her parents immigrated to the United States as refugees from antisemitism, [9] settling in West Hollywood, California.
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]
Senior correspondent Gabe Pressman was at the station from 1956 until his death in 2017, save for a seven-year stint (from 1972 to 1979) at WNEW-TV (now WNYW). 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 ...
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 ...
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization. It conveys a message promoting, and aiming to market, a product, service or idea. Advertisers and marketers may refer to television commercials as TVCs. [1]
These were locally produced commercial television programs intended for the child audience with unique hosts and themes. This type of programming began in the late 1940s and continued into the late 1970s; some shows continued into the 1990s. Author Tim Hollis documented about 1,400 local children's shows in a 2002 book, Hi There, Boys and Girls ...
Today in New York (displayed on-air as "Today in NY") is a local morning news and entertainment television program airing on WNBC, an NBC owned-and-operated television station in New York City. The program is broadcast each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Eastern Time , immediately preceding NBC's Today .
In January 1995, Janice joined WNBC as the weekend meteorologist for "Today in New York," "News Channel 4" at 6 and 11 p.m. In 2000 Janice added "Live at Five" to her duties. She is the host of "Wednesday's Child," a weekly adoption feature that airs Wednesdays during "News 4 You" and again on "Sunday Today in New York ."