Just heard that Tom Foty died. He was 77 and had worked at CBS Radio Network since 1998, usually anchoring the network's overnight hourlies.
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Tom Foty dead at age 77, CBS News Radio anchor and reporter
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Story including Tom's radio history and colleague's remembrances via social media:
radioinsight.com
Radio Industry Remembers Tom Foty - RadioInsight
Longtime radio news anchor, reporter, manager and technology consultant Tom Foty died earlier today at the age of 77. Foty has been with CBS News Radio since 1997, most recently serving as a fill-in anchor. Born in Budapest, Foty fled with his family to America following the failed 1956...
radioinsight.com
Sad news indeed. I associate his voice most with the UPI audio service way back when, but definitely heard him many a time on the CBS network. I didn't know of his work in newsroom technology (as reported by RadioInsight). An interesting and diverse life indeed.Just heard that Tom Foty died. He was 77 and had worked at CBS Radio Network since 1998, usually anchoring the network's overnight hourlies.
In this remembrance by radio veteran Howard Dicus, he notes that Tom Foty missed a shift and CBS sent a welfare check.
Going through the hourly archives, it looks like Jennifer Keiper worked her normal evening shift on Christmas 12/25. The overnight anchor typically starts with the 11:31PM update, then the midnight hourly. Keiper stayed on through the midnight and Christopher Cruise was called in for the remaining newscast.
Later that day on 12/26, CBS announced his passing.
What a loss.
Going through the hourly archives, it looks like Jennifer Keiper worked her normal evening shift on Christmas 12/25. The overnight anchor typically starts with the 11:31PM update, then the midnight hourly. Keiper stayed on through the midnight and Christopher Cruise was called in for the remaining newscast.
Later that day on 12/26, CBS announced his passing.
What a loss.
I never met Tom Foty face-to-face, but we had a couple of email exchanges related to threads about WOR-FM/WXLO NYC on the dentist's message board. Tom board op'ed at OR-FM in the early 70's, I knew some people there and had been to the station a handful of times. Despite that imbalance of experience with the station, and his subsequent career, he was down-to-earth and displayed no attitude of superiority. Seemed really genuine. What's a shame that it took missing his shift to wake them up that something was wrong. And on Christmas to boot. RIP.
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