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In 1980, Wiggin turned down a news anchor job in Atlanta in order to join WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. [3] [4] She then became co-anchor of the weekend news at WTAE-TV in 1981. [1] In November 1986, she was named anchor for the weeknight news. [1] [3] In that position, she was part of a successful team with Don Cannon. [5]
WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC.It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signed on by Hearst (alongside company flagship WBAL-TV in Baltimore).
Children. 2. Ruth Elizabeth Wertz (1935 – July 14, 2021), known as Ricki Wertz, was an American actress and television personality. She was a pioneering figure in local television in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, appearing on several shows from the late 1950s until the 1980s. She was noted for hosting Ricki & Copper and Junior High Quiz.
Fox was named "Best Pittsburgh Newscaster" seven years in a row by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.During her ten-year television career, she was able to interview many prominent national figures such as Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (during the Iran Hostage Crisis), Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Governor Michael Dukakis, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Joe Biden, Reverend Jesse Jackson ...
In 1990, WPTT-TV and Pittsburgh's News Corporation (not affiliated with the News Corporation that owned Fox until 2013) entered into an agreement to produce a 10 p.m. newscast to air on WPTT-TV which was to begin in the summer of 1991, and would feature news anchors from WTAE-TV. After going through three owners, WPGH-TV was put up for sale ...
WPGH-TV started a 10 p.m. newscast, the Fox 53 Ten O'Clock News, in January 1997. It was the first such newscast on a broadcast station in the Pittsburgh market, but it was a ratings underperformer relative to similar newscasts in similarly sized markets.
Schano was a model and Pittsburgh's first female weather presenter, [ 5] before becoming a reporter and eventually news anchor in Pittsburgh television. [ 2] She was the first solo primetime news anchorwoman in Pittsburgh, when she held that position from 1969 to 1974 at WIIC ( WPXI ). [ 6] She hosted several programs, including Face to Face (a ...
Patti Burns. Patricia Jeanne Burns (January 27, 1952 – October 31, 2001) was an American journalist and television news anchor. Burns was a familiar face to television audiences in Pittsburgh, where she worked for many years for KDKA-TV, a station for which her father, Bill Burns, was also a journalist and anchor.