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Personalities
The
personalities you heard on the air came into your home like members of
the family. You
trusted them and believed what they said. Then most moved on to other
places, other
careers. Here's what they're doing now. (Profile) is a link to a 1973
Wethersfield Post or
other article about that person. Names that show as links take you to
remembrances.
Richard
Ahles, VP News. VP
Public Affairs WFSB-TV3. Now retired in Riverton CT. (Courant
OpEd)
Barbara Allan, Weather. Now retired in Vernon CT. Passed
Away.
Ken Allen, Announcer. Then freelance. Passed Away.
Ed
Anderson,
Announcer. Passed away
Orville Andrews, Ranger Andy on "The Ranger Station". Passed away.
Bob Arel, Announcer, color commentator with George Ehrlich. He went to
WDBO, Orlando FL.(Passed
Away)
Frank
Atwood, Announcer, Farm Show. Passed
Away
Bob Bacon, pre-TV Staff Announcer who signed-off his music show
with: 'This is Bob
-- bringin' home the -- Bacon'. Passed away May, 2006.
Charles Bagley, Dir Travelers Weather Service. Passed Away
Dana
Bate, Staff Announcer for FM, 1964-5, went to
WQXR New York Passed Away
Phil Becker, Announcer/News reader. Passed
away.
Milt Barlow, Weather forecaster. Retired in about 1975 living in
Newington CT. (Passed Away)
Dick
Bertel, (Profile)
Announcer. Retired from Voice of America. Passed Away
John Birchard, Radio Producer. Now with VOA in News. Passed Away
Larry Blair, Announcer. Went on to full-time free lancing in NYC.
Joseph Blume. Lead an orchestra in the 1930's. Passed Away. Memories
Joseph Bourret (Jon Stevens) Passed Away
.
Yolanda Carerra, News. Passed Away
Bill
Clede, (Profile)
Outdoors. Public relations. Now full time freelance writer
since 1985. (Passed
Away)
George
Conklin, Announcer/Producer (Reminiscences)
Jean Colbert, Director of Women's Activities. Passed
away Newspaper
Obituary
Joseph
F. Crowley,
News.
Went with CT State Police
as PIO then New Britain General Hospital. Retired in 1995 New Britain
CT. Graduated from
CT Culinary Institute's professional chef program so he now cooks and
plays golf. Passed Away
Denise D'Ascenzo, WFSB-TV
Honorary Member of WTIC Alumni. Passed Away
Brad Davis, (Profile-1994) (Profile-2002)
Announcer. Former morning man at WDRC Radio 1360.Passed Away
Arnold Dean, (Wethersfield
Post 03/01/1973) (Lifestyles in CT
03-04/2004) (CT
Life 12/2006) (Htfd Courant
07/01/2007) (Cortland
Standard 6/10/2008) Hartford Courant Front Page December 9, 2012
(CPTV Interview
May, 2011) Sports. Passed Away
Larrye deBear, Asst News Dir., Governor's Office. Now Real Estate in Old Lyme CT.Passed Away
Walt Dibble, News Dir. Passed away.
Dewey
Dow, News. Now
retired account
supervisor and freelance writer.
N. Thomas Eaton, VP News. Passed away
George Ehrlich, Sports Dir. Went to WINF Manchester where he did
play-by-play for the
Univ. of Hartford Hawks
basketball team -- all of whom attended his
funeral. Passed away
Bob
Ellsworth,
Announcer. Passed Away
Ralph Eno, News. Was First Selectman in Lyme CT.
Passed Away
John Erikson, Travelers Weather Service Passed Away
John Ferguson, News Passed
Away
William E. Flower, News. Retired CT Dept. of
Corrections. Formerly toured
in an RV. Passed Away
Ken Garee, Weather forecaster. Passed Away
Don Gorman, Radio news. Now newspaper publisher. Passed Away
Bill Hanson, Announcer. WKYU public radio. Passed away
Bill Haskell, News. Now reporter Torrington Register Citizen.Passed Away
Ben
Hawthorne,
Announcer. Passed away.
Bill Heard, News. Now in San Pedro CA.
Bill Hennessey, Announcer. Now CT Corp. for Special Revenue.
Bill Henry, Announcer. Now at CT Public Radio.
Phil
Henry, News.
Now Retired.
Paul Hayes, News.
Shorty Cook Hinderer, Downhomer.
Passed away
Chuck Hooker, News. Now in Daphne AL.
Dr. George Howe, Weather, Passed away
A.J.
Janschewitz, Announcer
(See
also Technical)
Art Johnson, Announcer, host "The Other Side of the Day". Passed
away.
Kathleen Johnston, WTIC-TV
talent Photo
Passed Away.
Lani Jurev, Announcer. Passed Away
Bruce
Kern, Announcer,
6pm TV news
anchor. Passed away December 21, 1977.
Robert Killian, News. Now Judge of Probate, Hartford; Killian
& Donohue LLC,
Hartford.
Jean Tucker Kravsow, News.
Jim Knowles, News. Studied at UConn. Came to WTIC News in 1968 from the
Willimantic Chronicle.
Left to return to England around 1972.
Olivia
Vanda (Thompson) Komp, Announcer on Mind Your Manners.
Jean Tucker Kravsow, News, Passed Away
Paul
Kuntz, News Dir. Passed
away.
John LaBella, Announcer. Passed
away
Lon Landis, Announcer. Now News Director at KCBS-FM.
Franz
Laubert,
Announcer. Now lives in
CA.
John Lenhoff, Announcer. Passed away
Paul Lucas, Chief
Announcer radio. Passed away.
Allen
Ludden, came up
through the ranks. Passed
away.
Jim
Macdonald,
Weather. Retired in South Windsor CT.
Bill Mammen, Weather Passed Away
Robert Maxwell, Harpist with studio orchestra 1939-40, Composed
Broadcaster's Suite. Passed Away
Gerry (Slim Coxx) Miclette, Downhomer. Passed Away
Rocky
(Rocky Coxx) Miclette, Jr., Downhomer Passed
Away
Bill
Mill, News.
Retired to Martha's Vineyard. Passed Away
Betty Miller, Radio & TV.
Ross Miller, Vice President of Programming. Passed
away.
Jan
Miner, Radio. Passed
Away
Bernard "Bunny" Mullins, Announcer before becoming management. Passed
away.
Doye O'Dell.
MC and played with "Hi Boys and their Radio Rangers". Passed away,
Lou Palmer (Puma), Announcer. West Palm Beach FL. Passed Away
Norm
Peters (Polman),
Announcer. Homes
in Newington CT and South Florida Passed
Away.
Jay
Ray, Announcer/Guy Hedlund Players. Profile.
Dale R. Reynolds, News. Now Dir. Advertising, Central Region, Adelphia
Media Services.
Ray Rice, Announcer. Left WTIC in 1967 for WNEW Radio News in New York
City, then to NBC
Network News. Left
New York to live on an Indiana farm in
1976. Came back to the media, at
WISH-TV Indianapolis in 1980 as anchor
and reporter. Since 1989 Ray has done
only feature reporting in a daily
series called "Indiana's Own." Web
site
Floyd Richards, (Profile) (2nd
Profile)Announcer.
Lives in Port St. Lucie FL and plays golf. (Remembrances) Passed
Away
Tony Riggs, Announcer. Now news writer/reader
with VOA.
Don Robertson, Announcer. Went to CBS NYC where he retired a few years
ago. Believed to be
in NC.
Rusty Rogers, Downhomer. Retired To New Harbor ME. Passed Away
Ronald Rolly, TV studio crew, on air with the Ron Rolly Puppets on "Hap
Richard's
Show". Mow Rolly Michaud Art
Galleries, Boston, New York.
John Russo, Weather forecaster. Now Just Restaurants business
broker in Wethersfield
CT.
Alan Sagal, News. Went to AAA. Passed away
Tony
Sargent,
Announcer. Now retired in
Annandale VA.
Tom Seem, News, CBS News Washington Bureau since 1988.
Stan Simon, News. Went to the Hartford Courant then sailed away on his
boat for early
retirement. He returned to
newspaper work at the New London Day.
Dillon Smith, News 1967-69. Passed Away
Robert
E. Smith, FM Music Director, Announcer (Robert E. Smith's
Theater of Melody)
Bob
Steele, (Profile)
Announcer. Passed away Remembrance Roast
Fran Stern, News. Now Media Consultant Web Site
John Stevens (Joseph Bourret). Announcer Passed Away
Sid Stewart, News. Passed
away.
Jim
Strongin
(Strong), Announcer 1949-51,
1953-55. Now retired in Hagerstown MD.
Paul
Sutton,
Announcer. Retired Weatherman.
WGGB-TV40, Springfield MA. Passed Away
Sherm Tarr, News. Now freelance.
Al Terzi, (Profile)
Announcer. Went to Channel 8 for a
while. Now back at Channel 3 as News Anchor.
Jim Thompson, Announcer. Was News Dir. WGCH Radio in Greenwich CT. Passed Away
Michael
Toscano, Announcer. Now freelance writer, narrator and TV producer.
Bill
Turkington,
Announcer. On-Air Personality KWXY-FM, Palm Springs, CA.
Bob Tyrol, (Profile) Gen.
Mgr. Named
President Passed away Newspaper Obituary
Kenn
Venit, (Profile 1), (Profile 2)
News. Now pres. Kenn Venit & Associates, talent coaching and
focus group research.
Fred Wade, Announcer. Passed away.
Doug
Webster, (Profile)
Announcer. Now Director of Public Relations, The California Maritme
Academy, Vallejo, CA.
Dana Whalen, News. Now News Director, WTIC Radio.
Russ Wheeler (Blood), Announcer. Lives in Orlando FL doing freelance
voiceover for
Universal Studios.
Jerry Wilson, Weather. Retired and now a full-time sculptor, Wilbraham
MA. Passed Away
Ginny Wiltse, News. Now writer in Cincinnati OH.
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