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>In the 70’s and 80’s, Channel 11 seemed to struggle >the most(especially whent there's no Burns, Long or >DeNardo at your station). Newscast titles would >include “News/Watch,” “Instant News,” “Steel City >News,” “Newscenter 11,” and finally “Channel 11 News.” > The station’s call sign would change from WIIC to >WPXI in 1981. > >Some iconic personalities would anchor the news from >Television Hill. Starting in the early 70’s to late >70’s, they would include Adam Lynch, Ray Tannehill, >Eleanor Schano, Pat Kiley, Bob Cochran, Beverly Byer, >Hank Baughman and Alan Frio just to name a few. >Weather would also tend to have plenty of turnovers >with such personalities around the same time such as >Ralph Fallert, Don Riggs, Russ Montgomery, Ken >Phillips, PJ Maloney, Pat Finn and Pat Shingleton. >Sports was about the only stability Channel 11 had. >Sam Nover lasted from about 1970 to 1979, left for >NBC, then came back after Bill Currie, Dave Sullivan >and Rocky Blier all held the sports anchor chair for >about two years. By the 80’s when Channel 11 launched >a 5:30 newscast, Baughman, Jane Crawford, Roxanne >Stein and Jim Scott (who would go back to Channel 4) >became the main anchors, Shingleton (who like Phillips >was a meteorologist) would leave and be replaced by >Barry Lillis who really never caught on with viewers. >Finn would replace Lillis, then would be replaced by >Tim Earl, who would be switched with weekend weather >forecaster Dennis Bowman. Baughman and Stein would be >the main anchor team until 1985 when Mike Hambrick >would replace Baughman who’d go back to weekends and >anchor with Della Crews. Stein would be replaced by >Kelley Mitchell who was interim for Edye Tarbox. >Channel 11 brought back a 5:30 newscast to replace the >one as mentioned that was cancelled in 1984. Mitchell >would anchor with Ron Jaye and John Fedko would do >sports. David Johnson would replace Hambrick in >early 1989. Later that same year, Peggy Finnegan >would replace Tarbox. > >My apologies if I left anybody off the list. Thank >you for remembering Barry Judge. I knew there was a >guy named Barry who co-anchored 11's 6PM news with Ray >Tannehill. I do remember Barry Judge when I was in >Seattle when he was KING-TV 5's anchor in the early >'90's.

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