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KGO TV- ABC7's Pete Wilson Dies

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Shockingly, it was reported that Pete Wilson, ABC7's 6pm Anchor died last night during hip replacement surgery at Stanford Medical Hospital in Palo Alto. During the operation he suffered a massive heart attack. He was 62. Full story at www.abc7news.com

For bay area folks, more on ABC7 and basically all the local news stations.
 
Re: KGO TV- ABC7's Pete Wilson Anchored in Sacramento before SF

Wilson co-anchored KTXL, 40, Sacramento's hour-long "News Plus" with Pat McConahay in 1979 after KTXL reformatted its 10 p.m. news broadcast. Wilson (if I recall correctly) anchored the broadcast solo after McConahay was let go.

She went to KVIE, 6, Sacramento's PBS member station, and returned there after a stint in public relations. She's seen on PBS stations around the country in "America's Heartland" and in California on "California Heartland," both produced at KVIE.

Wilson left Sacramento (market 20) for SF (market 5) in 1983 and spent six years at ABC owned KGO-TV before jumping to what was then a highly regarded news department at NBC affiliate KRON-TV.

Toward the end of Wilson's 12-year tenure there, KRON's owners sold the co-owned San Francisco Chronicle newspaper to Hearst and the television station to Young Broadcasting. When NBC lost the battle for KRON, the network pulled its affiliation.

KRON's news effort suffered from money trouble and a decline in ratings without the network affiliation.

Wilson suddenly departed KRON and returned to KGO-TV in 2002. He also hosted an afternoon talk show on co-owned KGO radio.

He talked about the hip surgery on what turned out to be his last program, Wednesday afternoon.

http://podcasting.fia.net/5151/2051866.mp3

KGO-TV announced the news Saturday.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5498475


Ted.
 
At KTXL, then known as TV40, Pete Wilson was instrumental in creating the format for 'News Plus'. Doing Sports at TV40's, 'News Plus' was Gary Radnich.

When Pete left for KGO, the people at TV40 slowly did away with 'News Plus'. Then went back to a traditional news format.

Pete will sorely be missed.
 
Re: KGO TV- ABC7's Pete Wilson Anchored in Sacramento before SF

TedL said:
Wilson co-anchored KTXL, 40, Sacramento's hour-long "News Plus" with Pat McConahay in 1979 after KTXL reformatted its 10 p.m. news broadcast. Wilson (if I recall correctly) anchored the broadcast solo after McConahay was let go.

She went to KVIE, 6, Sacramento's PBS member station, and returned there after a stint in public relations. She's seen on PBS stations around the country in "America's Heartland" and in California on "California Heartland," both produced at KVIE.

Wilson left Sacramento (market 20) for SF (market 5) in 1983 and spent six years at ABC owned KGO-TV before jumping to what was then a highly regarded news department at NBC affiliate KRON-TV.

Toward the end of Wilson's 12-year tenure there, KRON's owners sold the co-owned San Francisco Chronicle newspaper to Hearst and the television station to Young Broadcasting. When NBC lost the battle for KRON, the network pulled its affiliation.

KRON's news effort suffered from money trouble and a decline in ratings without the network affiliation.

Wilson suddenly departed KRON and returned to KGO-TV in 2002. He also hosted an afternoon talk show on co-owned KGO radio.

He talked about the hip surgery on what turned out to be his last program, Wednesday afternoon.

http://podcasting.fia.net/5151/2051866.mp3

KGO-TV announced the news Saturday.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5498475


Ted.
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Didn't Pat McConahay host PM Magazine on then-ABC KOVR 13 as well?
 
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