John Verrilli, news director for Pittsburgh television station KDKA-TV, told TPM that the McCain spokesman "gave one of (Verrilli's) reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, 'You're with the McCain campaign? I'm going to teach you a lesson.'" Verrilli also said that the spokesperson had claimed the "B" on Todd's face stood for "Barack".
KDKA-FM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which formerly branded as B94
Following his baseball career, Purkey worked as a sportscaster for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, then opened a successful insurance business.
With these successes, several Pittsburgh-based media programs such as KDKA-TV's "Pittsburgh Today Live" and WQED (TV)'s Holiday Jam, as well as their radio stations, featured the ensemble.
It was during this time he began his career in the then new medium of television, spending a few years with KDKA-TV, followed by 22 years as Musical Director for WTAE-TV.
He later moved to KDKA-TV (CBS) in 1985 and was an anchor and primary Pittsburgh Steelers reporter for 30 years.
KDKA-FM, a radio station (93.7 FM) licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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WLTJ, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, which used the call letters KDKA-FM until 1979
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KDKA-TV, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
WBZZ ended the Top 40 format at 8:30 AM with "Move This" by Technotronic, while K-Rock's first song was "For Those About To Rock" by AC/DC.
In 1957, the Post-Gazette launched WIIC-TV (now WPXI) as the area's first full-time NBC affiliate three years after Westinghouse Electric's Group W spurned NBC for CBS with its newly acquired former DuMont O&O WDTV (now KDKA-TV) despite KDKA Radio's longtime affiliation with NBC Radio.
Butala began his professional singing career in 1948, when he appeared on "Starlets on Parade", a Saturday morning show on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh.
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29 October – President Carter on a visit to Pittsburgh gives a nationally broadcast campaign interview to KDKA-AM of that city.
When Cordic left for Los Angeles in 1965, Trow was added to the KDKA staff and did the morning show with Art Pallan, continuing the characters.
From Detroit, Rathaus moved to Pittsburgh to become production director and assistant program director at Westinghouse’s KDKA Pittsburgh.
By the 1950s, and continuing through the mid-1970s, many of the most powerful North American "clear channel" stations such as KDKA, WLW, CKLW, CHUM, WABC, WJR, WLS, WKBW, KFI, KAAY, KSL and a host of border blasters from Mexico pumped out Top 40 music played by popular disc jockeys.
The view was also the inspiration for the news open on CBS affiliate KDKA-TV for several years in the 1980s and 1990s.
Colony also provides sports updates three times an hour from 6 a.m. to noon, reports on the Steelers, Penguins, Pirates and Pitt football and basketball, and appears hourly on the Y108 Morning Show and two days a week on the KDKA-AM Morning News.
Ucelli began her career as the Anchor and News Director of WCLG-FM Radio in Morgantown, West Virginia and later as News Editor for KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.