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Patti Burns. Patricia Jeanne Burns (January 27, 1952 – October 31, 2001) was an American journalist and television news anchor. Burns was a familiar face to television audiences in Pittsburgh, where she worked for many years for KDKA-TV, a station for which her father, Bill Burns, was also a journalist and anchor.
Burns anchored KDKA-TV's noon news continuously for over 35 years until he retired in 1989. For most of that time, he also anchored the station's 11 p.m. newscast, working a split 14-hour shift. Pittsburghers still recall his familiar sign-off from his late newscasts, wishing viewers a "Good night, good luck, and good news tomorrow."
Stacy Smith is a retired news anchor at CBS owned and operated KDKA-TV, a local television station based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was also a contributor to OnQ, a news magazine program that aired on WQED-TV. Education and career. Smith attended Marian College in Indiana and graduated in 1971, majoring in theatre and drama.
KDKA-TV (channel 2), also known as CBS Pittsburgh, is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Jeannette-licensed WPKD-TV (channel 19), an independent station.
KDKA eventually made the decision to switch from a full-service format that included music to one that was an exclusively news/talk. The changeover occurred at noon on April 10, 1992, when Larry Richert played the last song aired as a regular part of KDKA programming: Don McLean's "American Pie", signifying that, for KDKA, this was "the day the ...
April 13, 2024 at 4:43 PM. KDKA. A pair of Pittsburgh-area bridges reopened Saturday morning after 26 barges broke loose the previous night and floated uncontrolled down the Ohio River, damaging a ...
Wiggin became a host for the Pittsburgh Steelers pre-game shows in 1993 and continued until December 2017. She also makes regular guest appearances on WDVE morning comedy show. Wiggin's role with WTAE shifted in 2004 when she left the 11 pm news and joined the noon news.
On June 16, 2009, KDKA began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, starting with its weekday noon broadcast, with the introduction of a new set and weather center. KDKA was the last major Pittsburgh television station to begin airing newscasts in HD and the WPKD-TV (as WPCW) shows were included in the upgrade.