{ The channel feed features advertising specific to Fairfield County, rather than the Connecticut Valley. Bill You can catch Jill on our weekend evening newscasts doing the weather as well as doing stories throughout the week. Doug Passed away Remembrance Roast John Russo, Weather forecaster. Besides, for 4 years, Mark as well served as the host of WFSBs Cool Schools franchise. Meet the WTNH News 8 team of reporters, anchors and meteorologists ROCKY HILL Longtime WFSB anchor Denise D'Ascenzo, who brought Connecticut news into homes across the state for decades, died suddenly and unexpectedly Saturday, the station announced Saturday The 220,000-square-foot building, The Summit at Danbury, is being redeveloped by. It is also not known if he has any siblings. Away Monitoring A Minor System Tuesday Morning & A More Impactful One Late Next Weekend! 2023 Audacy, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Paul Hayes, News. Passed & Donohue LLC, Dillon Smith, News 1967-69. 03-04/2004) (CT Dixon grew up and started working in Oklahoma and then in Arkansas, his experience with the severity of Tornado Alley has provided him with extensive experience pertaining to all types of extreme weather. Cross joined CBS in 1971, becoming the first Black network sports show anchor. For the radio station known as WFSB from 1970 until 1974, see, federally mandated transition from analog to digital television, "Fates & Fortunes (Death notice for Frederick Sessions Beebe)", Meredith Corporation to acquire Hartford Conn., television station, "Gray Television Closes on Acquisition of Meredith Corporation's Local Media Group", "WFSB Wins the May Ratings Race in Hartford | Hartford", "November 2015 Ratings Results for Hartford | Hartford", "WFSB's 'Face the State' beats national Sunday shows in Hartford/New Haven", "Denise D'Ascenzo Dies: Emmy Winning News Anchor For WFSB-TV In Connecticut Was 61", https://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=WFSB, "UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program". He has been with Channel 3 since 2004 . Gilardi is currently a. Former NFL star, CBS anchor Irv Cross had brain disease CTE, Items stolen from CVS, Walmart, and Stop & Shop resold at Hartford convenience store. Its great to have another native New Englander on the team!, Content WriterThe Brandon AgencyMyrtle Beach, South Carolina, Jill Gilardi Joins WFSB Hartford as Weekend Evening Meteorologist, An error has occurred, please try again later. [9] The new studio opened in 2007. By the mid-1990s, however, WFSB found itself in a shrinking market without any significant growth opportunities. Profile)Announcer. Passed away In addition, he hosts "Science Sunday" a segment that was done in partnership with the Connecticut Science Center, airing every weekend. It is at OU that he earned a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. 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Jim Lives in Port St. Lucie FL and plays golf. //END --> //END --> Newington CT. (Passed Away) Job Summary/Description: The Chief Meteorologist prepares and presents accurate and up-to-date weather forecasts and warnings across multiple platforms: multiple on-air newscasts, 24/7 weather channel, station website and partner radio station (s). In 2009, he received the Pro Football Hall of Fames Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. Announcer. William E. Flower, News. site Profile. Connecticut news broadcast around the Hartford, New Haven, and Springfield vicinities. away. Brothers mourn West Hartford man murdered in Israel. Betty Miller, Radio & TV. Passed Away Away), George Passed Away Bill Brad Davis, ( Profile-1994) ( Profile-2002 ) Announcer. Slifer wrote on Facebook. Gerry (Slim Coxx) Miclette, Downhomer. They made him a stronger helmet.. Denise D'Ascenzo, WFSB-TV Honorary Member of WTIC Alumni. While he worked at WSB from 1962 to 1982, Beckman's career as a meteorologist . Ellsworth, in Newington CT and South Florida Passed Turkington, basketball team -- all of whom attended his Gilardi studied weather at one of the country's top schools for meteorologists, Lyndon State College in Vermont, and earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal from the American Meteorological Society. NewWords = unescape(Words); Passed away May, 2006. Lives in Orlando FL doing freelance Now in San Pedro CA. All rights reserved. On-Air Personality KWXY-FM, Palm Springs, CA. with VOA. in Journalism. Arnold Dean, (Wethersfield [16] On February 28, 2012, WFSB entered into a partnership with The Bulletin in which the two media properties share news footage and stories, along with WFSB providing local forecasts for the Norwich, Connecticutbased newspaper.[17]. 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Rusty Rogers, Downhomer. away Doye O'Dell. Passed away Gilardi worked at WBRC in Birmingham since 2013, according to the company's website. Passed away Once a student of the game, NFL games were mostly background noise because he didnt know who was playing. Making Connecticut his home now for over a decade and working with Bruce DePrest, a forecaster of New England weather for well over 30 years, has enabled him to hone his forecasting abilities in the realm of winter storms. Dr. Ann McKee, a professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University, said she was not surprised Irv Cross brain reached stage 4 given the length of his overall football career (the study counted 17 years) and his age. Now back at Channel 3 as News Anchor. trusted them and believed what they said. www.wticalumni.com: A site that was created by Bill Clede and carried on by David Kaplan featuring pictures, audio, information and trivia about the old WTIC AM/FM/TV before its sale by the Travelers in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WFSB&oldid=1142699675, This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 22:26. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on Denise D'Ascenzo Way in Rocky Hill and a transmitter on Talcott Mountain in Avon, Connecticut. WGCH Radio in Greenwich CT. Now reporter Torrington Register Citizen. Most of WFSB's programs are seen in Springfield, Massachusetts, over a low-power semi-satellite station, WSHM-LD (channel 3.7). Stan Simon, News. Now full time freelance writer WFSB announced Thursday that it was making further staffing cuts. Retired to Martha's Vineyard. Galleries, Boston, New York. Teresa Hamilton Hall . In the late 1980s, Post-Newsweek moved its corporate offices from Washington, D.C., to space located alongside Broadcast House making the station the company's flagship. Now retired in Vernon CT. Kathleen Johnston, WTIC-TV She graduated from SCSU with a B.S. Passed away. VP Walt Dibble, News Dir. Left WTIC in 1967 for WNEW Radio News in New York He began his on-air career while attending college, as a junior, at the same station where he toured and interned in Tulsa. Then freelance. As of September 2022, the station's only syndicated program on weekdays is Inside Edition. Bill Henry, Announcer. Lou Palmer (Puma), Announcer. Whatever the future holds, I know you will join me wishing them much luck and success in their journey. Passed AMS Certified. Barbara Allan, Weather. PHILADELPHIA (AP) Irv Cross was a man of faith and devout fan of football who could no longer in his final years attend Bible study or watch NFL games with friends. A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - 2002-2023 Gray Television, Inc. 2002-2023 Gray Television, Inc. Christine and Salt celebrated Mark's big promotion by giving him a veeeeeerrrrrry DIFFICULT weather quiz. STEVE FENN STF. Passed Away. CT Culinary Institute's professional chef program so he now cooks and For somebody who had been so active and so able to do everything, and an athlete, not having balance, not having strength, not being able to do any of the things he had done before, it was embarrassing, she said. Jim Mark Dixon is an American Meteorologist working for WFSB where he forecast weekdays on Channel 3 Eyewitness News from 4:00 to 6:30 pm. Jill Gilardi has joined Hartford, Ct., CBS affiliate WFSB as weekend evening meteorologist. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Even though Fairfield County is part of the New York City market where CBS flagship WCBS-TV is based, WFSB targets viewers in the area through "WFSB Fairfield County" on a fourth digital subchannel and the digital tier of Optimum systems. Went on to full-time free lancing in NYC. Honorary Member of WTIC Alumni. of Hartford Hawks