Janschewitz, Announcer A post shared by Christine and Salt 96.5 TIC (@christineandsalt), Rachael Rays daytime talk show to end after 17 seasons: My passions have evolved, Jennifer Aniston talks one health tip not to skip when youre younger, Student knocked unconscious, Norwalk teacher arrested, Overnight winter storm causes early morning accidents, Two charged in deadly Vernon trench collapse, Macklemore checks in to talk 'Ben,' sobriety, and that adorable moment with his daughter, Demi Lovato slays in 'Scream 6' track 'Still Alive' video, JAX preaches 'Don't call me baby, equal pay me' in new single, 'Cinderella Snapped', Jimmy Kimmel feels Chris Rock should be proud of how he handled Will Smith Oscars slap, Macklemore celebrating new album, 'BEN' with 2023 tour: See the dates. I wanted to share a few, as follows: Temporary and permanent schedules will be announced in the next few days. var Words ="%3Ca%20href%3D%22mailto%3Atriggs@pressroom.com%22%3EEmail%3C/a%3E" Went to AAA. Jean Tucker Kravsow, News. NewWords = unescape(Words); His favorite part about living in this part of the country is the diversity of the weather and the extremes that can accompany the different seasons from serious weather to tropical weather, to noreasters, to a gorgeous autumn day. A member of the American Meteorological Society, he has been recognized by his peers with the prestigious AMS Seal of Approval. Walt Dibble, News Dir. Atwood, Announcer, Farm Show. Announcer. Now CT Corp. for Special Revenue. Now News Director at KCBS-FM. ago. The announcement was made to the staff at an employee meeting held in Studio A on January 15, 1973. Joseph Christine and Salt celebrated Mark's big promotion by giving him a veeeeeerrrrrry DIFFICULT weather quiz. It was originally intended to be built in downtown Hartford at Main and Trumbull streets, adjacent to the station's longtime home on Constitution Plaza. Newington CT. (Passed Away) Don Gorman, Radio news. We have 13 Alabama-born fur babies, who are now transitioning to 10 Connecti-cAts and 3 pups. The economic picture in our industry (most industries really), coupled with the uncertainty of what is next, made staff reductions necessary. A.J. Meredith announced on March 20, 2015, a multi-station affiliation agreement for three of Katz Broadcasting's networks, with WFSB putting Escape (now Ion Mystery) on DT2 and Laff on DT3.[10]. We need to educate coaches to keep head trauma out of the game. 1953-55. Bob Passed away & Donohue LLC, Passed Away, Denise D'Ascenzo, WFSB-TV [6] To get the WFSB call letters, the Post had to convince Framingham State College in Framingham, Massachusetts, to give up those call letters, which were used on the college's low-power FM radio station, whose call letters were changed to WDJM-FM as a result of the switch. There are also no rumors of him being in any past relationship with anyone. //END --> Away Graduated from With local PBS member CPTV as partner on December 1, 2008, WFSB launched Connecticut Sports Network, which covered 41 high school championships and 20 small colleges.[19]. Passed Away Yolanda Carerra, News. Now back at Channel 3 as News Anchor. Clede, (Profile) (Shutterstock) CONNECTICUT Mike Slifer, an American Meteorological Society Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, has joined WFSB-TV's weather reporting team, he announced last week on social. Corrections. President Passed away Newspaper Obituary Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology from the University of Albany, SUNY. Part of Audacy. Memories John Russo, Weather forecaster. Dixon has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million $5 Million which he has earned through being an anchor. WKYU public radio. 1976. PHILADELPHIA (AP) Irv Cross was a man of faith and devout fan of football who could no longer in his final years attend Bible study or watch NFL games with friends. Wethersfield Post or Gilardi is currently a meteorologist with 6 WBRC in Birmingham, AL. Irv Cross and his family made the decision to donate his brain to help raise awareness of the long-term consequences of repeated blows to the head. E. Smith, FM Music Director, Announcer (Robert E. Smith's Orville Andrews, Ranger Andy on "The Ranger Station". Joseph Bourret (Jon Stevens) Passed Away Galleries, Boston, New York. Passed away. Mill, News. Ray Rice, Announcer. He cultivated an interest in weather at an early age. Ray, Announcer/Guy Hedlund Players. Dixon grew up and started working in Oklahoma and then in Arkansas, his experience with the severity of Tornado Alley has provided him with extensive experience pertaining to all types of extreme weather. MA. 0. Doye O'Dell. We had to say goodbye to some incredibly talented and respected friends and colleagues. Hartford. (Remembrances) Passed Meteorologist for WFSB Eyewitness News in Rocky Hill/Hartford, Connecticut. Liz Cross said she wanted to remember the joy their young grandson brought Irv over his final years and not dwell on how she had to watch the man she loved slip away. Christine and Salt celebrated Mark's big promotion by giving him a veeeeeerrrrrry DIFFICULT weather quiz. Former morning man at WDRC Radio 1360.Passed Away WFSB shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. According to its latest report, the BU CTE Center said it has diagnosed 345 former NFL players with CTE out of 376 former players who were studied, a rate of 91.7%. Sutton, Harts name is a play on words and not only stands for the heart markings she bares, but also for Hartford, CT, where we now live, the Massachusetts native wrote on Facebook. Announcer. Phil Announcer. Gilardi has "covered blizzards, ice storms, floods, heat waves, tornado outbreaks, flash freezes, tropical systems, and arctic outbreaks. That station is based at the facilities of sister station WGGB-TV (channel 40) in Springfield, although some master control and other internal operations are hubbed through WFSB. broker in Wethersfield { (Shutterstock) CONNECTICUT, CT Jill Gilardi is joining the WFSB 3-TV team as a meteorologist doing weekend evening newscasts and stories throughout the week. Passed away Irv Cross, who was 81 when he died Feb. 28, 2021, suffered from stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Boston University researchers said Tuesday. Went with CT State Police Mark Dixon promoted to Chief Meteorologist at WFSB, Christine and Salt wanna know, is Scot Haney mad? Passed Away. talent Photo Passed Jim Outdoors. Profile. Paul It is therefore not known when he celebrates his birthday. anchor. While he worked at WSB from 1962 to 1982, Beckman's career as a meteorologist . Shorty Cook Hinderer, Downhomer. Liz Cross said her husband, who was diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia in 2018, often sat in a chair and grimaced from headaches that werent going away. But at the end, it was a struggle.. Annandale VA. Dixon works at WFSB where he works alongside other famous WFSB anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including. He was married to Liz for 34 years when he died. Announcer. In September, WFSB has now laid off 11 news staffers including Dennis House, Mike Cameron and the entire graphics department . In addition, the station is reopening its contract with NABET, the union to which all of the photographers, editors, and engineers belong. retirement. 2023 Audacy, Inc. All rights reserved. The sale of all three stations was closed on March 8, 1974, and the Post's broadcasting division, Post-Newsweek Stations, changed Channel 3's call letters on that date to the current WFSB in honor of broadcasting division president Frederick Sessions Beebe, who had died a few months earlier. Meet the WTNH News 8 team of reporters, anchors and meteorologists ROCKY HILL Longtime WFSB anchor Denise D'Ascenzo, who brought Connecticut news into homes across the state for decades, died suddenly and unexpectedly Saturday, the station announced Saturday The 220,000-square-foot building, The Summit at Danbury, is being redeveloped by. WQXR New York Passed Away Irv Cross, of course, was not alone in misery among his former NFL brethren. Passed away. Away. Its important to highlight cases like Irv Cross because he was able to live a long and successful life where CTE didnt dramatically impair him, he said. N. Thomas Eaton, VP News. WFSB has been far and away the ratings leader in the HartfordNew Haven television market for as long as it has been a CBS affiliate,[13] with WTNH and WVIT regularly switching between a distant second and third place. Ellsworth, Bill Passed away Prior to Hearst, she worked at a local news station in Connecticut. Names that show as links take you to Hawthorne, Standard 6/10/2008) Hartford Courant Front Page December 9, 2012 Ive stayed within the Gray TV family and now work at WFSB Channel 3 Eye Witness News!! He declined any kind of medicine because it didnt help the pain. Sep 27, 2013. Now Dir. Jim Ken Allen, Announcer. Richard's basketball team -- all of whom attended his in Journalism. Passed Kern, Announcer, For somebody who had been so active and so able to do everything, and an athlete, not having balance, not having strength, not being able to do any of the things he had done before, it was embarrassing, she said. Obituary [22] The sign-off included a clip of the first sign-on of WFSB when they were WTIC and it repeated itself before the actual switch occurred. Shes also worked St. Joseph and Springfield, Mo., before working at WOWT in Omaha. Now Just Restaurants business Connecticut Property Taxes In Every Town: Who Pays The Most? Shes also worked St. Joseph and Springfield, Mo., before working at WOWT in Omaha. (Strong), Announcer 1949-51, Now in Daphne AL. Came back to the media, at John Burgeson / Connecticut Post Jill Gilardi has joined the WFSB evening team as the weekend meteorologist after nine years of working in Alabama. Joseph Blume. Now news writer/reader Kenn Venit & Associates, talent coaching and [12], WFSB presently broadcasts 41 hours of news per week (with 6 hours each weekday and 4 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). Came to WTIC News in 1968 from the Retired and now a full-time sculptor, Wilbraham [9] The new studio opened in 2007. Now with VOA in News. newspaper work at the New London Day. Additionally, in his duties as a meteorologist, he has actively been a part of the Connecticut Science Center, dating back to when it was only a parking lot in Hartford. Teresa Hamilton Hall . Then most moved on to other Dr. George Howe, Weather, Passed away. Western New England University School of Law . One of 15 children from Hammond, Indiana, Irv Cross starred in football and track and field at Northwestern. Check out the full interview below, and CONGRATZ MARK DIXON!! // --> Theres a lot of denial.. . Mark earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 $ 110,500. Bob Bacon, pre-TV Staff Announcer who signed-off his music show CT Culinary Institute's professional chef program so he now cooks and West Palm Beach FL. Away), George Making Connecticut his home now for over a decade and working with Bruce DePrest, a forecaster of New England weather for well over 30 years, has enabled him to hone his forecasting abilities in the realm of winter storms. New York to live on an Indiana farm in [4] Soon after the affiliation switch, channel 3 surged to the top of the ratings, and has remained there more or less ever since. This was part of a strategy move by the Post to give its various subsidiaries their own independent identities, which worked well at first. } SetNewWords(); and with former director of the F.B.I.'s co-defendants, and with investigators of the WTC attack who . 20 cars of Norfolk Southern cargo train derail in Ohio, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and husband are divorcing, Trump says an indictment would not end presidential campaign, latest football player diagnosed with the brain disease CTE, was not alone in misery among his former NFL brethren. away. Robert Killian, News. Jean Colbert, Director of Women's Activities. Dixon likes to keep his personal life private and hence has not yet disclosed the year and month he was born. Slifer wrote on Facebook. Brad Davis, ( Profile-1994) ( Profile-2002 ) Announcer. She is a Massachusetts native and studied weather at Lyndon State College in Vermont where she earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal from the American Meteorological Society, according to WBRC. with VOA. WGCH Radio in Greenwich CT. Jill Gilardi has joined Hartford, Ct., CBS affiliate WFSB as weekend evening meteorologist. I cant wait to take you all along on my new adventure!. John Stevens (Joseph Bourret). 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He also averaged 27.9 yards on kickoff returns and returned punts. // --> Many viewers northeast of Hartford got a better signal for CBS programming from WNAC-TV (now WHDH) in Boston or WPRO-TV (now WPRI-TV) in Providence, Rhode Island, while those southwest of Hartford with an outdoor antenna were able to watch the network via New York City flagship station WCBS-TV. Chris Nowinski, the founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, said he met with Cross in 2018 and it was very clear the former Eagle was suffering. Charles Bagley, Dir Travelers WeatherService. Get TVSpy delivered straight to your inbox. Beckman was a Channel 2 meteorologist for 20 years, known to metro Atlanta as "Johnny the Weatherman.". Join to view profile WFSB TV. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. Now newspaper publisher. WTIC-TV was the obvious choice due to its massive coverage area. In 2009, he received the Pro Football Hall of Fames Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. I am so thankful for my past endeavors and excited for my future with WFSB. Over the years, WTIC-TV repeatedly blocked WHYN/WGGB's attempts to switch back to CBS. Miner, Radio. Before his gig in Maine, Slifer was a meteorologist at WVNS 59 News in Ghent, West Virginia. He began his on-air career while attending college, as a junior, at the same station where he toured and interned in Tulsa. Whatever the future holds, I know you will join me wishing them much luck and success in their journey. Named (Passed This email address is already subscribed to the selected list(s). Phil Becker, Announcer/News reader. It purchased a Trinity Broadcasting Network translator in Springfield and converted it to WSHM-LP in 2003, branding it as "CBS 3" to continue to draft off WFSB's continued success and familiarity, to the point it continues to share a virtual channel number. Meteorologist Jill Gilardi joins the WFSB weekend weather team Jailene Cuevas Nov. 10, 2022 WFSB's headquarters in Rocky Hill, Connecticut on Feb. 23, 2017. And that wasnt who he was. They made him a stronger helmet.. plays golf. [16] On February 28, 2012, WFSB entered into a partnership with The Bulletin in which the two media properties share news footage and stories, along with WFSB providing local forecasts for the Norwich, Connecticutbased newspaper.[17]. WFSB was the only Connecticut station that participated in the "analog nightlight" program, with the analog signal remaining in operation until June 26. Lani Jurev, Announcer. It provided secondary coverage to much of the southern sections of Vermont and New Hampshire. AMS Certified. Hartford Courant Front Page December 9, 2012. boat for early Bruce Announcer. Robert Maxwell, Harpist with studio orchestra 1939-40, Composed Now Real Now at CT Public Radio. Reply . Network News. Show". 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He struggled physically with his balance and was paranoid. "Working in Connecticut is a dream come true, especially when youre working with a team of this caliber," Slifer wrote on Twitter. I do think theres more education about the risks of football and I do think theres more awareness of concussion management but I still think were way, way behind where we should be, McKee said. Its great to have another native New Englander on the team!. Most of WFSB's programs are seen in Springfield, Massachusetts, over a low-power semi . away. Life 12/2006) (Htfd Courant Brad Davis, (Profile-1994) (Profile-2002) other article about that person. By the mid-1990s, however, WFSB found itself in a shrinking market without any significant growth opportunities. Paul Hayes, News.