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Search found 19 matches
- Mon Oct 14, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Rob Kress - WXYZ TV Meteorologist 1977-1993 Obituary
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2596
Re: Rob Kress - WXYZ TV Meteorologist 1977-1993 Obituary
Kress had a really rough go of it with the Lyme Disease that forced him to retire in 1993, I wonder if he was eventually able to recover to a degree.
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:33 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Really MeTV???
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9723
Re: Really MeTV???
Am I the only one feeling deeply sorry for lido watching Gunsmoke reruns on Thanksgiving Day? I picture him alone, in front of his 27" Zenith tube TV eating a Swanson turkey dinner, drinking a Stroh's and rooting for Marshall Dillon to get a posse together. To some of us that sounds much more ...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Really MeTV???
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9723
Re: Really MeTV???
Just buy the series DVD set. All 635 episodes for $173.41 on Amazon. A lot better quality than MeTV. The parade is over with now. :rollin :rollin :rollin Just was making a suggestion so he can spare himself from future anguish when it inevitably gets pre-empted again for one thing or another.
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 8:40 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Really MeTV???
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9723
Re: Really MeTV???
Just buy the series DVD set. All 635 episodes for $173.41 on Amazon. A lot better quality than MeTV.
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:16 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Joe Gagnon The Appliance Doctor
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20834
Re: Joe Gagnon The Appliance Doctor
Gagnon's first WCAR show was on Sept. 6, 1985. I found a 1988 article which says he already had 20 years of experience by then.
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:44 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: WJR - Guy Gordon gets a co-host
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4410
Re: WJR - Guy Gordon gets a co-host
I assume she has the prerequisite conservative qualifications or learns quickly to affect them.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 10:20 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Paul W. Smith moving to middays + other changes at WJR
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27069
Re: Paul W. Smith moving to middays + other changes at WJR
I looked up Ann Thomas (who has been with WJR since 1982 according to her station bio) in old Free Press articles. In the Detroit Press Club Foundation's Michigan Excellence in Journalism competition (apparently discontinued forever after 2008) she won 1st place in radio reporting in 1986, "UAW ...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:21 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Paul W. Smith moving to middays + other changes at WJR
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27069
Re: Paul W. Smith moving to middays + other changes at WJR
Swirsky worked for WJR from 1994 to 1998 and I remember him hosting Sportswrap.
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: June 2023 radio ratings
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12995
Re: June 2023 radio ratings
1.9 for WJR, a record low?
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:10 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: WWJ 950
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9834
Re: WWJ 950
As I recall. when I475 in the Flint area was first built, it was named after Walter Ruether also. After a while, the names came down; I don't recall hearing anything why. In 1969 I-475 was designated the Buick Freeway and I-69 (then M-78) named the Chevrolet Freeway. In 1980 I-475 was renamed the ...
- Fri May 27, 2022 12:04 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: WFDF 910 Is 100 Years Old 5-25-22 As A Commercial Station
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1608
Re: WFDF 910 Is 100 Years Old 5-25-22 As A Commercial Station
I doubt if more than 1 or 2 of the staff or personalities are aware of or care about its Flint-period history. It's connected to its first 80 years of history only by its call letters and frequency.
- Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:10 am
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Frank Beckmann in hospice care
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12021
- Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:29 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Which Detroit station will make the bold move back to the city??
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4904
Re: Which Detroit station will make the bold move back to the city??
Why would a station want to put their employees lives at risk by moving back to the city?That has no bearing on a newscast. It would not be a bold move, it would be a bad move. You realize that WDIV never left, right? I guess they've been putting their employees' lives at risk the whole time. It ...
- Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:30 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: WJR Local News
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7831
Re: WJR Local News
WJR news team from 1/2/1974 Free Press ad:
Frank Beckmann
Bill Curnow
Gene Fogel
Oscar Frenette
Rod Hansen
Gene Healy
Mike Kenny
Dennis Larsen
Doris McMillon
Carl Metcalf
Cliff Mosley
Dave Taylor
Dave White
How the mighty have fallen.
Frank Beckmann
Bill Curnow
Gene Fogel
Oscar Frenette
Rod Hansen
Gene Healy
Mike Kenny
Dennis Larsen
Doris McMillon
Carl Metcalf
Cliff Mosley
Dave Taylor
Dave White
How the mighty have fallen.
- Fri Jun 11, 2021 4:57 pm
- Forum: Metro Detroit/SE Michigan
- Topic: Newspaper Website Coverage of Schembechler/Anderson Story
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6174
Re: Newspaper Website Coverage of Schembechler/Anderson Story
Bo's name should be removed from all athletic facilities immediately and the statue needs to come down. Immediately upon accusation , rather than as the result of an investigation? Methinks, Mark, you would not wish to have sentence executed upon you without due process. We aren't talking about a ...