Category: History Tidbit

January 27, 2021 Off

Can you ID this anchor?

By Eric O'Brien

Alert reader Bruce chimed in the other day… There is a relatively famous picture of KDKA-TV’s news studio published in…

January 21, 2021 Off

History Tidbit

By Eric O'Brien

The video isn’t great, but the subject is. Remember the WQED Great TV Auction? (I personally hated it because it…

September 15, 2020 Off

Vintage Video

By Eric O'Brien

Mark Roberts, formerly of WTAE Radio, recently had some 16mm tape digitized and shared this gem with us today. Early…

September 14, 2020 Off

WTAE at 62

By Eric O'Brien

At age 62, WTAE is the youngest of the four VHF (analog, of course) stations in Pittsburgh. It took a…

September 3, 2020 Off

History Tidbit

By Eric O'Brien

This photo (submitted to us by Jason Togyer; but credited to Rex W. Athey) shows the WPEZ van in 1979…

September 1, 2020 Off

WPXI at 63

By Eric O'Brien

On this day in 1957, WIIC-TV, Channel 11 signed on as Pittsburgh’s NBC affiliate. That was two years after it…

August 18, 2020 Off

“Alice & Grough”

By Eric O'Brien

In the few years between “Cordic and Company” and “Bogut in the Morning” on KDKA Radio (roughly 1965-68), Art Pallan…