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Chris Ulanowski RIP

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Mark Giardina

From www.fybush.com

Chris Ulanowski was a longtime staple of the news department at public station WRVO (89.9 Oswego), where he worked for 27 years before departing (as news director) in 2009. Ulanowski died last Monday (May 30); he was just 51 years old.

Wow this came as a shocker! And so young too.
 
I want to add that Chris was a Buffalo native -- Kenmore, to be exact. He was a 1981 grad of Canisius College, and interned at one of the Buffalo public stations (sorry, I can't remember). He earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Syracuse Press Club in 2008, and before that he and WRVO racked up an unbelievable number of journalism awards from AP, UPI, PRNDI, etc. He was dedicated to fairness, balance, and always maintained a strong skepticism towards our institutions and the people that run them, which drove his reporting. He also served on the NYS AP board for a time, and was active in the Oswego County Press Club.

A number of people who went on to NPR and other great things worked in his newsroom at the SUNY Oswego campus, first in Lanigan Hall, then when it moved to the Penfield Library building. I knew him from his first days at WRVO, in the summer of 1982.

And he loved his wife, three daughters, and his Buffalo Bills.
 
Indeed, it is so sad that Chris has passed at such a young age. I got to know Chris during his senior year at Canisius College. In 1982, he was hired at a then small public radio station in Oswego, New York that had little to no visibility and built a news department, so much so that WRVO today is a major and respected source of information in the Syracuse market. When news of national importance broke in Central New York, Chris was always there to cover it for NPR. As mentioned, he and his department have been honored with many awards through the years. You were always guaranteed a good time when running into Chris at the annual AP banquet in Saratoga Springs. Ironically, WRVO was awarded top honors (the third or fourth time, I believe) at this past weekend's AP awards. A share of that honor goes to Chris because of the high standards he set at WRVO during his long tenure as news director. My sympathies to Chris' family for their loss.
 
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