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WSB’s Pete Combs

I noticed he was missing from overnights. The link does not work.
 
kf4rca said:
I noticed he was missing from overnights. The link does not work.
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The blog post has been deleted. It was based on a post to a private Facebook group the family has set up that the reporter presumably has access to.

I was kinda surprised it was reported in the first place. If the family wanted it public, they could have made the post public.
 
BoboKnight said:
The blog post has been deleted. It was based on a post to a private Facebook group the family has set up that the reporter presumably has access to.

I was kinda surprised it was reported in the first place. If the family wanted it public, they could have made the post public.
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Really ill-considered. Rodney must be regretful.
 
I'm shocked that a newspaper reporter would post a story about a person's medical condition based on information that they received secondhand from a closed Facebook group. I would guess there's something illeagal about that, at the very least it's stunningly unethical. Also, Pete Combs is a Cox employee as is Rodney Ho, you'd think there would be a corporate poilicy in place to handle that. In essence, Rodney published medical information about another employee of his company. Unbelievable.

I think Rodney Ho should issue an apology.
 
I knew Peter Combs when he worked in TV news in Tulsa roughly 30 years ago. He operated a BBS in town before the internet existed. He is a good guy, though, even as a sysop, he was quite a private person.
 
jabba17 said:
Apparently Pete Combs passed this evening https://www.wsbradio.com/news/local...orter-pete-combs-dies/zkwGm7jYODVrPwkvR9umcM/

Cancer sucks and can go to hell.
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Jabba - indeed. Hell is too good of a place for cancer.

This is a sad story to read and report. I just attended a visitation for a neighbor who passed away on Tuesday of lung cancer also diagnosed in September, like Pete. Such a short time and aggressive disease. Thoughts and prayers to Pete's family and friends.
 
Pete Combs

One of the best radio news reporters in the country, who spent a few years at KOMO, passed away this week.

I remember him for many, many years filing reports for the CBS hourlies with one of the smoothest voices in the business.

After getting pink slipped in Atlanta, he spent a few years at KOMO (where, tbh, he should have been PM drive anchor rather than the not fit for the role Tom Glasgow) and then when a position opened up in Atlanta, he headed back, also working as a national correspondent for ABC Radio.

https://komonews.com/news/local/former-komo-reporter-pete-combs-passes-away
 
Pete had one of the smoothest voices in the business, and was an excellent writer too.

He had a stand out voice in his years filing stories for CBS ... ending with the unmistakable "Pete Combs for CBS News, Atlanta."

A few years at KOMO in Seattle where he should have been a star, and then back to Atlanta, where his role also included covering the south for ABC News and I heard more than one hourly start "From ABC News, I'm Pete Combs live in Atlanta..." which was so impressive considering that network has very few radio reporters left.

https://komonews.com/news/local/former-komo-reporter-pete-combs-passes-away


CBS's Peter King voice an obit tonight on one of the hourlies at 4 minutes:

http://audio.cbsradionewsfeed.com/2019/12/12/23/Hourly-23.mp3
 
Only 60. I know so many people who didn't get a red cent of Social Security. Dene Hallam is another one you may know. And Allan Weiner's wife (the short wave guy) died at 58.
 
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