Tim Taylor (born Timothy Kropf on

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) is a retired

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newscaster/investigative reporter and news anchor for

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. Taylor served as the chief news anchor of WJW from 1977 to 2005.

Early life

Taylor was born on the east side of

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in the Buckeye neighborhood, moving at a young age to suburban

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. Taylor suffered from bronchial asthma as a youngster, though he overcame it and graduated from Bedford High School in 1961, and going to college at

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Broadcast career

In 1964, Kropf took the name of Tim Taylor, and began his broadcasting career. The first ten years of Taylor's 30-plus year career were spent in radio, including seven years as News Director of WHK Radio. It was there that Taylor earned recognition for his live coverage of such historic news events as the second Sam Shepard trial, the Hough Riots, the Glenville shootout, blastoff to splashdown live coverage of the aborted

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mission and the

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, for which he received an Emmy for his 25th anniversary perspective piece on the Kent State tragedy. In 1974, Taylor moved to television, first joining

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channel 5 as a consumer reporter/weekend anchor. He moved to WJW three years later, and in 1979 became a co-anchor on the weeknight newscasts, a post he held until his retirement in December 2005. While at WJW, Taylor did live reports from

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, interviewed four presidents, and even traveled to

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to cover the then growing Japanese auto industry.

Awards and honors

*1991 Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame inductee *1994

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Silver Circle Award recipient *2001 Cleveland Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame inductee *2002 Lower Great Lakes Emmy Awards recipient (as co-anchor of ''Fox 8 News at 10'') - Outstanding Daily Newscast *2007 Cleveland Press Club Journalism Hall of Fame inductee

References

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