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Station Longevity

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So I was debating where to put this and whether it was wise to add on to a topic or start anew. Chose the latter.

After reading the post by formerra about Linda Williams longevity wondering about which station in the area has the news persons (including anchors and reporters) with the greatest longevity. From the looks of it FOX 10 might take the cake.

Makes me wonder if FOX/Channel 10 has been and is a great place of employment.

I sense Channel 15 is at the bottom of that list.
 
Fox 10 has a lot of longtime personalities:

Linda Williams since 81
Ron Hoon who was there during the KOOL news era left and went to 12 News and then came back.
Dave Munsey, who has been there since late 70's?
John Hook and Jude LaCava have been there since the early 90's (about 15-18 years)
Rick D'Amico has been there since the mid-late 80's
Troy Hayden since the early 90's

Any others I am forgetting?
 
Dave Munsey is the longest-serving, but I couldn't give you a number. While 12 has lost Rick DeBruhl, Mark Curtis has been around for 20+ years (with a brief exile to St Louis I think). Patti Kirkpatrick started at 12 before jumping to 3, but I can't recall her start date.

Off air is more fun: Jaime was shooting at 3 when they were still using film and Jay has been at 12 for 27 years.
 
mninmesa said:
Fox 10 has a lot of longtime personalities:

Linda Williams since 81
Ron Hoon who was there during the KOOL news era left and went to 12 News and then came back.
Dave Munsey, who has been there since late 70's?
John Hook and Jude LaCava have been there since the early 90's (about 15-18 years)
Rick D'Amico has been there since the mid-late 80's
Troy Hayden since the early 90's

Any others I am forgetting?



Add Diane Ryan too that mix, just noticed she has been there since early 80s.
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Market15Schmifteen said:
Lin Sue has been at 12 since '84...
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Hasn't Frank Camacho been at Channel 3 since the mid '70s?
 
50kguy said:
Dave Munsey is the longest-serving, but I couldn't give you a number. While 12 has lost Rick DeBruhl, Mark Curtis has been around for 20+ years (with a brief exile to St Louis I think). Patti Kirkpatrick started at 12 before jumping to 3, but I can't recall her start date.

Off air is more fun: Jaime was shooting at 3 when they were still using film and Jay has been at 12 for 27 years.
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1985-86, around the time Linda Alvarez left for L.A. and 12 threw Action News out the window.
 
I remember Dave Munsey DJing on KOOL-FM until sometime in the mid-80's (I think). I don't think he was doing weather on TV at the same time but might be mistaken. Channel 10 was CBS then.
 
Raymie said:
50kguy said:
Dave Munsey is the longest-serving, but I couldn't give you a number. While 12 has lost Rick DeBruhl, Mark Curtis has been around for 20+ years (with a brief exile to St Louis I think). Patti Kirkpatrick started at 12 before jumping to 3, but I can't recall her start date.

Off air is more fun: Jaime was shooting at 3 when they were still using film and Jay has been at 12 for 27 years.
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1985-86, around the time Linda Alvarez left for L.A. and 12 threw Action News out the window.
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I spent the summer of 83 in Phoenix and I remember Action News. Channel 12 had the "Hello Phoenix/Arizona" campaign. It was exactly the same as WPRI in Providence (except there it was "Hello Rhode Island"). At the time, I thought that this was rather amazing. Now, of course through the miracle of the internet, I realize that almost every tv market in the country had "Hello" at one time or another.
 
Not to Hijack a thread, but all these people in Phoenix are virtual kids when it comes to longevity when you compare to other markets like Cleveland for example:

Tom Haley, News/Public Affairs/Movie/Game Show Host WNBK/KYW/WKYC Cleveland 1948-97 (49 years)

Jay Miltner Announcer/News Reader WNBK, etc..1948-86 (38 years)

Chuck Schodowski Producer/Director/ On air talent 1961-2007 WJW-TV Cleveland (47 years)

Dorothy Fuldheim News Reporter/Commentator 1947-84 WEWS-TV Cleveland (37 years)

Dick Goddard Weatherman 1966-Present WJW-TV (44 years and counting)..Add in 1961-65 at KYW He's been in Cleveland nearly 49 years (Spent a few months in 1965-66 in Philadelphia)
 
formeraa: We've even found the Hello News image package in Calgary, Canada and Perth, Australia!

Tim L: Stuff this in your pocket, too - more well-known long-tenured TV newsmen:

Harold Taft, KXAS-TV Dallas Texas, 1948-91 (I think). And when he did leave, he did so because he had severe cancer. Pioneering, well-known weatherman.

Roy Leep, WTVT Tampa, 1957-2009. Even more of a tenure.

Bob Palmer, KOA/KCNC and KMGH-TV Denver, 1957-1997. 40 years, became Colorado's best known TV personality, still did specials until his 2003 death.

Ralph Renick, WTVJ Miami, Florida, 1947-1985 (and then WCIX sporadically in the late 1980s). Died in 1991. Pioneering local newsman who helped define the role of news anchor. (And some of his colleagues too: Bob Mayer, Bob Weaver (deceased), Tony Segreto (retired)!)

New York alone: Bill Beutel, Michele Marsh, Jim Jensen, Frank Field, Warner Wolf...

LA also has a bunch: Johnny Mountain, George Fishbeck, and others I cannot name from the top of my head.

Vince Leonard's also been a longtime in the business (especially Philly and...KPNX until the mid-1980s). But Phoenix as a growing small town market for its history meant no real big names.
 
Raymie and others:
I didnt mean to imply that Cleveland is the only market that has the corner on TV longevity-Those are great names you brought up..Just stating what I am familiar with..no offense intended to the good Phoenix folks..
 
We have a Tucson resident who knows a thing or two about longevity. His name is Don Pardo, and he is 92 years old. He worked as an announcer for NBC for 60 years. He then retired and moved to Tucson, but SNL couldnt think about the show without him, so they fly him in every weekend they are live.

That's longevity, PEEPS!!!
;D
 
landtuna said:
I remember Dave Munsey DJing on KOOL-FM until sometime in the mid-80's (I think). I don't think he was doing weather on TV at the same time but might be mistaken. Channel 10 was CBS then.
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Dave was doing the weather when I interviewed at 10 in the fall of '85.
 
Raymie said:
LA also has a bunch: Johnny Mountain, George Fishbeck, and others I cannot name from the top of my head.
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Jerry Dunphy...1960 until the 2000s...dropped dead at 83...on his way to anchor a newscast.

Stan Chambers...sometime in the 50s until the late 90s.

Hal Fishman...the 60s until the 2000s.

Jess Marlow...1966 until the 90s.

Paul Moyer...1972 until 2009.

Chuck Henry...1972 and still on KNBC.

There are probably a dozen or so more.
 
michael hagerty said:
landtuna said:
I remember Dave Munsey DJing on KOOL-FM until sometime in the mid-80's (I think). I don't think he was doing weather on TV at the same time but might be mistaken. Channel 10 was CBS then.
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Dave was doing the weather when I interviewed at 10 in the fall of '85.
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A late-summer 1984 KOOL-FM jock schedule does not have Munsey on it
(Mike Farrell in mornings), so he would have already been doing weather
on channel 10.

BTW, the afternoon jock at the time was some guy named Tom Peake.
Whatever happened to him? ;)
 
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