WLIO-TV co-anchor women

[Limp73]

Been noticing in recent years how WLIO-TV in Lima, Ohio goes through a lot of female co-anchors on its 6pm newscast.

Where are these intelligent and attractive women now???

Jennifer Keat(late 1990s..last seen on a commercial for a local Verizon celphone delaer)
Jamie Winder (2000-2006)
Billie Hazle(2007-2008)

I am happy that Holly Geaman Koza remains at WLIO for the newscast at noon....but why do they go through so many 6 and 11pm female co-anchors?

 

[gr8oldies]

I can imagine WLIO is a starter station, like it's former sister WLFI in Lafayette, where I once worked. I haven't seen WLIO in a while, they had an anchor named "Dancie Moore" and I kinda wondered how I could take a news anchor named "Dancie" seriously.

 

[FRR]

I remember watching WLIO in the early 80's when I lived in Findlay. What a backwoods operation. The anchor desk looked like cardboard with pieces of carpet on it. The weather maps looked hand drawn. The weather girl would point to Cleveland and say, "now down here in the southern part of the state near Cincinnati"...It was fun to watch. I met a gal who had done weather there in the 70's and was told she got the job because she had "great tits". I asked her about her formal training in meteorology and she just laughed. I do have some great memories from those times though. If I remember correctly, WLIO was an NBC affiliate at that time.

 

[kirkiefan]

WLIO has come a long way from the comparatievly crude B&W days of WIMA-TV. They are STILL an NBC affilliate...at one time it aired some ABC programs in the 60s since WIMA-AM was also an ABC affiliate at that time.

Vince Koza was the best all around sports guy there before he moved on to 93.1 "The Fan" (WWSR calls transplanted from 92.1) Funny dude with his "Beat The Koz" segment.

Jamie Winder was a sweet young lady on the air...and miss her on-air news delivery and style.

I remember "The Barry Patch"(Barry Lillis) on Saturday mornings in 1967...and my favorite weekday show was "IN-SIDE" with Ron (Blazer) and Bob (later replaced by Charlie Chunk (Chuck Osborne)..a really wacky live show that featured the hosts on barstools interacting with puppets in a window(a concept copied by "Clubhouse 22" on Dayton's WKEF in 1970)Ron and Chuck sang popular hit songs (in lip-sync to the record),old Republic serials(mocked by Ron and Chuck at the beginning credits ala MST3K)Deputy Dawg cartoons and the hosts romping all over the studios being chased by studio cameras while a Top 40 song was playing...almost a prelude to Monkees romps. Ironically "IN-SIDE" was cancelled and left the air a week before The Monkees premiered! Goofy and ate-up show...it cracked me up!

 

[gr8oldies]

I moved to the area in 1967; we didn't have the extra UHF antenna so we got a snowy picture on WIMA-TV/WLIO. (Typical setup for rooftop antennas: VHF pointed to Dayton, UHF pointed to Ft Wayne and a smaller UHF pointed to Lima. Once we got cable we didn't have the issue. Of course i remember Easter Straeker and Ric Bratton's shows (sponsored by Ric's Station Break Deli). IIRC Ch. 35 had the ABC affiliation mostly for the college football package.

 

[JJWALKER]

I remember watching WLIO in the early 80's when I lived in Findlay. What a backwoods operation. The anchor desk looked like cardboard with pieces of carpet on it. The weather maps looked hand drawn. The weather girl would point to Cleveland and say, "now down here in the southern part of the state near Cincinnati"...It was fun to watch. I met a gal who had done weather there in the 70's and was told she got the job because she had "great tits". I asked her about her formal training in meteorology and she just laughed. I do have some great memories from those times though. If I remember correctly, WLIO was an NBC affiliate at that time.

I just laughed my butt off and you are so true. Remember Laura Lis, the hottie weather gal back in the 70's. As I recall ND George Dunster was Easter Straker's sidekick and in charge of the birthday chair segment. Local kids would come and get their chance to come be on tv and reach into a jar, grabbing a handful of pennies. Laura had a son who was in the birthday chair and he proceeded an attempt at double dipping in the stash of pennies. When George on live TV attempted to stop the double dip, this kid caught everyone off guard when sounded off letting george know that junior wasn't going to let him kiss mommy anymore if he didn't get the extra pennies. Clasic Live Local TV

 

[JJWALKER]

I remember "The Barry Patch"(Barry Lillis) on Saturday mornings in 1967...

Barry ended up on tv in buffalo doing weather for more than 20 years. last i heard he was out of the biz and preaching jesus. Greg Garlock who was Garfunkle retired about a year ago as police chief in Lima.

 

[KR4BD]

I remember "The Barry Patch"(Barry Lillis) on Saturday mornings in 1967...

Barry ended up on tv in buffalo doing weather for more than 20 years. last i heard he was out of the biz and preaching jesus. Greg Garlock who was Garfunkle retired about a year ago as police chief in Lima.

I worked with Barry Lillis at WKTR Ch16 in Kettering/Dayton in late 1968. He was our staff announcer.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Vince Koza was the shizz...Back in the late 90's St. Marys HS had a running back named Bo Frey, and when Vince did the highlights, he'd always say "Bo Frey...Half Nan...Half Beeeeeaaaast!"

 

[schmave]

My mom, who grew up in St. Marys in the 1950s and 1960s, fondly recalls watching Easter Straker as a kid. For years, WLIO has been my grandmother's station of choice for news, largely because it actually covers her area. WHIO is her second choice, but of course they don't do as much with Auglaize County, and then there is WBNS to keep up on Columbus news.
When I think of female anchors on WLIO, the one who immediately jumps to mind is the late Laurie Omness. She was there for decades, along with Vince Koza on sports. For the life of me, I can't remember who did the weather in those days (thinking late 80s to mid 90s). I also remember Ric Bratton, George Dunster, Jeff Fitzgerald and Holly Geaman.
More recently, Amyre Makupson was on WLIO but I think she is down south now. Her mother of the same name was an anchor for years at WKBD in Detroit, and I believe still might be. Watched her when I went to the U. of Toledo back in the late 1990s.