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Mike Barz
Mike Barz (born ''Michael Barszcz''; April 9, 1970) is an American broadcaster who was weekday morning news anchor at WFOX-TV and WJAX-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a morning news anchor at WFLD, the Fox affiliate in Chicago, Illinois from 2007-2009. Early life and education Michael Barszcz was born in Los Angeles to a military family. He moved to the Midwest to attend Indiana University Bloomington, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1993. Professional career Early in his career, Barz adjusted his surname and began working as a news anchor at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Illinois and at WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he worked as a feature reporter and anchor. Barz left WLUK in 1998 to come to Chicago to take a job at WGN-TV as the sports anchor for the ''WGN Morning News'', joining a morning news team with a controversially comedic bent. In early May 2005, Barz received an early release from his contract at WGN-TV to become a full-time feature contributor at ABC New ...
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WFOX-TV
WFOX-TV (channel 30) is a television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, affiliated with Fox and Telemundo. It is owned by Cox Media Group, which provides certain services to CBS affiliate WJAX-TV (channel 47) under a joint sales agreement (JSA) with Hoffman Communications. The stations share studios on Central Parkway, while WFOX-TV's transmitter is located on Hogan Road, both in Jacksonville's Southside section. History Early history in 1980s The station first signed on the air on February 15, 1981, as WAWS-TV (the "-TV" suffix was dropped from the call letters on October 8, 1981); it was the first general-entertainment independent station to sign-on in the Jacksonville market. It signed on more than a year after the market's first non-network station, WXAO-TV (channel 47, later future sister station WJAX). However, WXAO was mostly a religious station. The station's original studios and transmitter facilities were located on Hogan Road on Jacksonville's Southside, ...
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ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning news-talk show ''Good Morning America'', ''Nightline'', ''Primetime (American TV program), Primetime'', and ''20/20 (American TV program), 20/20'', and Sunday morning talk shows, Sunday morning political affairs program ''This Week (ABC TV series), This Week with George Stephanopoulos''. In addition to the division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live, plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities. History Early years ABC began in 1943 as the Blue Network, NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was Corporate spin-off, spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radi ...
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1970 Births
Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured. * January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. * January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon. February * February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 236. * February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists. * February 11 – '' Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. * February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. March * March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic. * March 4 — All 57 m ...
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WISH-TV
WISH-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is locally owned by Circle City Broadcasting alongside Marion-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WNDY-TV (channel 23) and low-power, Class A getTV affiliate WIIH-CD (channel 17). The stations share studios on North Meridian Street (at the north end of the Television Row section) on the near north side of Indianapolis; WISH-TV and WNDY-TV also share transmitter facilities on Walnut Drive in the Augusta section of the city's northwest side (near Meridian Hills). History Early history The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1954 at 6:00 pm. Founded by C. Bruce McConnell—owner of WISH radio (1310 AM, now WTLC)—it was the third television station to sign on in the Indianapolis market, after WFBM-TV (channel 6, now WRTV), which signed on in May 1949 and Bloomington-licensed WTTV (channel 10, now on channel 4), which signed on six months later in November 19 ...
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Jan Jeffcoat
Jan Jeffcoat is an American television personality, currently serving as the lead anchor for ''The National Desk'', a headline news service aired on Sinclair Broadcast Group stations. Career She's made brief appearances on several television shows including NBC’s This Is Us, Netflix’s “What If”, FOX’s “911”, “Family Time” as well as “Truth Be Told” on Apple TV. She also has appeared as an actress on Lifetime Movie “My Daughter was Stolen”. In November 2019, she appeared in films “In the Line of Duty” and “Mainstream” with director Gia Coppola. At age twelve she hosted a local children's program in her hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. Her first reporting job was in Tallahassee, Florida. She has worked as a reporter and/or anchor at WBTV in Charlotte, NC and WCSC-TV in Charleston, SC. Jeffcoat was a morning anchor at KRIV in Houston, TX from November 2004 to June 2007. During her time at KRIV, the morning show became Houston's fastest ...
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MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political commentary. As of September 2018, approximately 87 million households in the United States (90.7 percent of pay television subscribers) were receiving MSNBC. In 2019, MSNBC ranked second among basic cable networks averaging 1.8 million viewers, behind rival Fox News, averaging 2.5 million viewers. MSNBC and its website were founded in 1996 under a partnership between Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, hence the network's naming. Microsoft divested itself of its stakes in the MSNBC channel in 2005 and its stakes in msnbc.com in July 2012. The general news site was rebranded as NBCNews.com, and a new msnbc.com was created as the online home of the cable channel. In the late summer of 2015, MSNBC revamped its programming by entering ...
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David Novarro
David Novarro (born October 1, 1959) is an American television news journalist for WABC-TV in New York City. He is the co-anchor of ''Eyewitness News'' @Noon with Shirleen Allicot and the 4 pm newscast with Liz Cho. He is featured on a segment called The Trend on the 4pm newscast. Novarro returned to WABC-TV in December 2010, he was previously the anchor of ''Good Day Chicago'' at WFLD-TV in Chicago. Novarro anchored the "Ten" newscast at Fox Chicago from 2007 to 2009. He was selected to spearhead the station's expansion into the 10:00 PM time slot after anchoring "Fox News in the Morning" He was voted "Best Newscaster" in a Chicago Kiss FM radio poll. Novarro and his co-anchor Tamron Hall hosted the morning broadcast for seven years beginning in 2000. David Novarro was recruited to Fox Chicago from WABC-TV in New York where he was the morning weekend anchor and general assignment reporter. The documentary '' Cropsey'' is based on a real life serial killer which was the subject ...
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Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall (born September 16, 1970) is an American broadcast journalist and television talk show host. In September 2019, Hall debuted her self-titled syndicated daytime talk show, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award. Hall was formerly a national news correspondent for NBC News, daytime anchor for MSNBC, host of the program'' MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall,'' and a co-host of '' Today's Take'', the third hour of ''Today''. She hosts ''Deadline: Crime'' on Investigation Discovery channel. In summer 2016, Investigation Discovery premiered the TV special ''Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates'', which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the tower shooting at the University of Texas at Austin. Early life and education Hall was raised in Luling, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism from Temple University in 1992, after which she moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to begin her broadcasting career. Career Hall first worked at KBTX in Bryan, Texas ...
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Sam Champion
Samuel James Champion (born August 13, 1961) is an American weather anchor who is best known for his combined 25-year career on the ABC flagship station WABC-TV and ''Good Morning America''. He formerly co-anchored '' AMHQ: America's Morning Headquarters'' and ''23.5 Degrees With Sam Champion'' on The Weather Channel. After December 4, 2013, his final day with ABC, he became the managing editor of The Weather Channel, beginning on January 1, 2014. Champion also appeared on the ''Today'' show on NBC. After leaving NBC and the Weather Channel in 2016, he returned to ABC on a fill-in basis and returned to become the weekday morning and noon weather anchor at WABC-TV in June 2019. Early life and education Champion was born in Paducah, Kentucky, to Sylvia and James H. Champion on August 13, 1961. He has one sibling, sister Teresa. His father, who died October 25, 2010, was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Vietnam. He graduated from Fairfax High School in ...
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Tony Perkins (television Meteorologist)
Anthony Perkins (born August 25, 1959) is an American broadcast journalist, radio personality, and former weathercaster, best known for his work on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' as the primary weather anchor from 1999 to 2005. Perkins joined CBS affiliate WUSA in Washington, D.C. for six weeks, beginning October 21, 2019, for the station's morning show, ''Get Up DC!'', which became a full-time assignment when he was named full-time anchor of the show in January 2020. Early life and education Perkins was born on August 25, 1959 in New York City to Constance Bellamy (1938-2018) and Tommy Perkins (d. 1992). His parents had met when his father was working at a shoe store in New York. Together, the family lived in the South Bronx until moving to Washington, D.C., when he was five years old. His parents divorced when he was 11, and his mother worked as a telephone operator and night clerk to raise the family. He attended elementary school in Washington, D.C., junior high in Maryland ...
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Good Morning America
''Good Morning America'' (often abbreviated as ''GMA'') is an American morning television program that is broadcast on ABC. It debuted on November 3, 1975, and first expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on January 3, 1993. The Sunday edition was canceled in 1999; weekend editions returned on both Saturdays and Sundays on September 4, 2004. The weekday and Saturday programs airs from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. in all United States timezones (live in the Eastern Time Zone and on broadcast delay elsewhere across the country). The Sunday editions are an hour long and are transmitted to ABC's stations live at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, although stations in some media markets air them at different times. Viewers in the Pacific Time Zone receive an updated feed with a specialized opening and updated live reports. A third hour of the weekday broadcast aired from 2007 to 2008, exclusively on ABC News Now. The program features news, interviews, weather forecas ...
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