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Name Local TV Personalities, Anchors and reporters that also does Talk Radio?

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recto101

I noticed in San Francisco we tend to have lots of TV personalities that also succeeded in Talk Radio like Brian Copeland, the late Pete Wilson and James Gabbert on KGO AM 810.

Barbara Simpson and Brian Sussman on KSFO.

Michael Savage had a failed stint on MSNBC but better on KSFO, and National via KNEW and KTRB now Savage has faded.

Barbara Rogers better on KPIX tv and KCBS AM but flopped on 960.

Jack Friday on KOFY TV 20 in the 1980's and 1990's was also a DJ on KFRC and KBLX.



I know on the National spotlight of TV people on Talk radio are Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity of Fox doing Talk Radio on the Daytime hours

Glenn Beck faded from TV like HLN and Fox and now has faded from radio.
Dennis Miller does well on radio in certain areas but the former HBO host is now a pundit on Fox.

Rush Failed on TV but did better on Radio.
 
Gary Radnich- KRON4 Sports also on KNBR...THE Sports Leader

Sacramento had KCRA Newsradio 132. Afternoon host, Bob Whitten also KCRA Channel 3's main anchor
 
recto101 said:
Glenn Beck faded from TV like HLN and Fox and now has faded from radio.
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Beck still has the radio show, and has switched his TV stuff to an Internet-only streaming service, GBTV. He's distributing the video stream through Major League Baseball's online subsidiary.

Of course, the creator of confrontational right-wing talk radio, Joe Pyne, was on KLAC and KABC Radio in Los Angeles while doing his TV show for KTTV/11; the TV show was distributed nationally by Metromedia until Pyne's death, and Pyne's radio shows were also intermittently syndicated by smaller firms. George Putnam, the longtime Los Angeles TV news anchor for KTTV/11 and KTLA/5, also briefly did a show with Mort Sahl on KHJ-TV/9 before turning to talk radio; as I recall, he was on KIEV when Salem rebranded that station KRLA. Sahl later did talk radio locally on WRC Washington and fill-ins on Tom Snyder's ABC Radio show.

Another alumnus of WRC is John McLaughlin, who was taping his McLaughlin Group and McLaughlin One-on-One shows at WRC-TV/4 simultaneously.

Don Imus did a TV talk show in '78 for WNEW-TV/5 New York, Imus Plus, at the same time he was working local radio at WHK Cleveland (Metromedia syndicated the TV show nationally).

In Milwaukee, Mark Belling did a Sunday-morning show on WISN-TV/12 and weekday afternoons on WISN Radio when Hearst owned both signals; when Clear Channel bought the radio station, Belling's TV show moved to WDJT/58. WTMJ Radio's midday talker Jeff Wagner also did (still does?) a Sunday TV show on WTMJ-TV/4.

New York's talk radio pioneer Barry Farber worked for WMCA at the time he replaced the late Lou Gordon on the latter's Detroit-based syndicated TV show; a few years later, Farber starred on a second syndicated TV series, Farber!, which lasted one season.

In Chicago, as I recall, talk radio pioneer Paul Gibson did not only several programs on WBBM Radio but also some TV work on WBBM-TV/2. Gibson's co-host on the WBBM Radio show The Lady & The Tiger, Lee Philip, also had a long-running noon-hour chat show on WBBM-TV that was carried by CBS-TV in the early '60s; Philip later co-created the CBS-TV soaps The Young & The Restless and The Bold & The Beautiful. Alex Dreier drew double duty on WENR Radio and WBKB-TV/7, ABC's late '50s/early '60s stations in Chicago. And, of course, the granddaddy of them all was Paul Harvey, who did a daily TV commentary for WBKB-TV/7 (later carried on WFLD/32, then WSNS/44) at the same time as his ABC Radio commentaries in the '50s, '60s and '70s.
 
bob and tom in indianapolis durring the early 80`s hosted movies on channel 59 on saturday night at the same time they were doing their morning radio show.

not the same as talk radio hosts doing shows but it is radio hosts doing tv when doing radio shows.

was imus doing a music show in 1978 ?
 
In Charlotte, we now have former WSOC-TV news anchor Vince Coakley hosting his own radio show on WBT. Right now pretty dry if you ask me.

On a side note, back in the late 90's, former WBTV news anchor Bob Inman use to do radio spots for The Charlotte Observer. He was great on TV, but horrible on the radio.
 
Ultimajock said:
Don Imus did a TV talk show in '78 for WNEW-TV/5 New York, Imus Plus, at the same time he was working local radio at WHK Cleveland (Metromedia syndicated the TV show nationally).
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He also put out an "X-rated" record around that time, titled "This Honky's Nuts" (I kid you not).

I totally forgot about Savage's show on MSNBC, which these days is synonymous with all things not related to his politics... ::)
 
Marty Griffin, an investigative reporter for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, also holds down
the late morning talk show shift on KDKA radio.

Albeit this seems to be largely a cost-cutting effort. The radio station let another
host go, and since Griffin was already under contract to CBS this probably worked out
to be cheaper for them.
 
DToTheJ said:
I totally forgot about Savage's show on MSNBC, which these days is synonymous with all things not related to his politics... ::)
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...that's a pile of crap. Joe Scarborough gets three times the hours of any other host on MSNBC every weekday, and they still allow Pat Buchanan to vent his right-wing claptrap...
 
Mary Starret (she hosted "AM Northwest" on KATU in the 1980s-mid 90s alongside the weatherman Jim Bosley, and occasionally did their evening "news") had a talk programme several years ago on (if I remember correctly) KPAM.

Maybe she still does. I don't listen to commercial talk radio myself, so I couldn't tell you for certain.
 
DToTheJ said:
Ultimajock said:
Don Imus did a TV talk show in '78 for WNEW-TV/5 New York, Imus Plus, at the same time he was working local radio at WHK Cleveland (Metromedia syndicated the TV show nationally).
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He also put out an "X-rated" record around that time, titled "This Honky's Nuts" (I kid you not).

I totally forgot about Savage's show on MSNBC, which these days is synonymous with all things not related to his politics... ::)
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Damn I remember when Imus had a simulcast on MSNBC and WFAN 66 AM
also I know that Armstrong and Getty does a simulcast on KFTY METV and KNEW 910 AM in San Francisco
 
Ultimajock said:
Don Imus did a TV talk show in '78 for WNEW-TV/5 New York, Imus Plus, at the same time he was working local radio at WHK Cleveland (Metromedia syndicated the TV show nationally).
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Wasn't Imus at WNBC radio at the time?
 
azumanga said:
Ultimajock said:
Don Imus did a TV talk show in '78 for WNEW-TV/5 New York, Imus Plus, at the same time he was working local radio at WHK Cleveland (Metromedia syndicated the TV show nationally).
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Wasn't Imus at WNBC radio at the time?
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...nope. After Bob Pittman lucked out and struck paydirt with WMAQ Chicago's country format, NBC gave him a couple of years to finally beat WABC with WNBC. One of the first things he did, in the late summer of '77, was can Imus and Bruce Morrow; almost immediately, Imus grabbed a job at WHK Cleveland and planned out the WNEW-TV talk show, which would keep his image active in New York during the "exile." Meanwhile, Imus' replacements at WNBC, Ellie Dylan (Pittman's girlfriend at the time) and Brink & Belzer (featuring Richard Belzer, the comedian and actor), flopped horribly and NBC fired Pittman in '79, setting the stage for Imus to return that September...
 
In Boston, the late David Brudnoy was a TV entertainment reporter before he did his long-running talk show on WBZ. And Dan Rea, who currently does that time period on WBZ, was previously a reporter on WBZ-TV.
 
TV to radio:

* Brand new CBS Radio sports talker WKRK/92.3 "The Fan" features WEWS/5 (ABC) sports director Andy Baskin middays on "Cleveland's Talking Heads". The other "Talking Head" is supposed to be Fox Sports Ohio's Jeff Phelps, whenever he gets his contract squared away (perhaps later today).

"The Fan" also featured, Saturday, a show with WOIO/19 (CBS) sports director Tony Zarella and sports anchor Mark Schwab, who had a long run at Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100 before going into TV. We don't know if that show was more than a tryout.

* Before 92.3's start as a sports talker, Local TV Fox affiliate WJW/8 sports anchor Tony Rizzo did double duty at the incumbent sports talker in town, Good Karma Broadcasting ESPN affiliate WKNR/850 "ESPN 850 WKNR". He eventually left WJW, and is now doing only radio.

* Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 sports director Jim Donovan is the primary play-by-play voice of the Cleveland Browns radio network (hubbed at Clear Channel rock/talk WMMS/100.7).

Radio to TV:

* WTAM afternoon driver Mike Trivisonno has done live camera segments during his show on WOIO's "19 Action News" ("Triv TV").

* Former radio morning guy Joe Cronauer (late of Clear Channel's then-WMVX/106.5 "Mix 106.5" fixture "Brian and Joe") is now a regular on WKYC/3's midday service/talk show "Good Company".

* Joe and his former radio morning partner Brian Fowler host a show on Time Warner Cable's "NEON" (Northeast Ohio Network) local programming channel called "This One Time".

* Former morning co-host at CBS Radio hot AC WQAL/104.1 "Q104", Rebecca Wilde, has been a regular contributor on Fox 8's midday service/talk shows, first "The Robin Swoboda Show", and later, the current "Good Day Cleveland".

I know I'm missing someone...
 
wncc said:
In Charlotte, we now have former WSOC-TV news anchor Vince Coakley hosting his own radio show on WBT. Right now pretty dry if you ask me.

On a side note, back in the late 90's, former WBTV news anchor Bob Inman use to do radio spots for The Charlotte Observer. He was great on TV, but horrible on the radio.
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We also had Morgan Fogarty who went the other way. Morning co-host on WIBT, and she and her partner did commentary on an "edgier" 10:30 news program on the Fox station. Now she's the 10:00 co-anchor.
 
Back to Boston for a moment, Jack Williams(WBZ-TV News)did sit in now and then for the late David Brudnoy on WBZ Radio.
 
In Rochester NY WHAM 13 TV news anchor and reporter Rachel Barnhart sometimes fills in for WHAM 1180 AM radio talk show host Bob Lonsberry when Lonsberry is on vacation.

For those not familiar with the Rochester market, WHAM TV and Radio are separately owned operations, despite having the same call letters.
 
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