30 Years at KDKA

Patrice King Brown, who co-anchors the 4, 6, and 11PM broadcasts, celebrated 30 years at KDKA-TV on Wednesday, October 1st. She started at KDKA as co-host of Pittsburgh 2 Day first with Wayne Van Dine and later with Jon Burnett. After Pittsburgh 2 Day was cancelled in 1990, Patrice King Brown moved to the news desk. Over the past 30 years, Patrice has covered several major stories such as the Quecreek Miracle and the crash of Flight 93 in Somerset County.

Here is a special section on KDKA-TV's website which also includes a video look back at her career: http://kdka.com/seenon/Patrice.King.Brown.2.830075.html

Congratulations Patrice!

Big Changes at Channel 4

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that there are some anchor line-up changes at WTAE/Channel 4.

• Mike Clark moves from the 6 and 11pm broadcasts to the early morning and noon broadcasts.



• Andrew Stockey will move from the early morning newscast to the evening broadcasts, co-anchoring the 5 and 11pm broadcasts with Wendy Bell and the 6pm broadcast with Michelle Wright.



• Sally Wiggin will stop doing the 6pm broadcast and will only anchor the noon newscast with Mike Clark. She will also contribute reports to the evening broadcasts



• Michelle Wright will stop doing the noon newscasts and anchor only the 6pm newscast. She will also contribute reports to other newscasts as well.



• Demetrius Ivory will now start doing the weather at 5pm in addition to the early morning newscasts.



• Erin Kienzle will now do the weather on the noon newscasts during the week from Monday through Thursday and will do the weather on the morning and evening newscasts on Sunday. Michael Haynes will do the weather at noon on Friday and on all of the newscasts during the day on Saturday.

These changes will take effect on Monday, September 29th.

WTAE goes Hi Def

WTAE - Channel 4 Action News is now officially broadcasting their newscasts in Hi Definition. They started broadcasting in HD on Monday during their noon broadcast. With the HD debut also comes new graphics and a new open. WTAE-TV General Manager Rick Henry says “High definition gives us the ability to give our viewers a clearer, sharper look at the weather that affects Western Pennsylvania. We’re excited to take our weather forecasting to a whole new level." Field shots are still being done in standard definition, however, WTAE is in the process of upgrading their field cameras.

Link from WTAE: http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/station/17486485/detail.html

Julie Bologna returning to Pittsburgh

Julie Bologna, the former, well liked morning meteorologist at Channel 11, is coming back to Pittsburgh to work at her former station. Bologna, who will start on Sept. 15, first worked at WPXI-TV from 1999 to 2004. She then moved to Dallas, TX to work as the morning meteorologist at CBS owned and operated station KTVT-TV, where she has been for the past 4 years. Bologna will work as the meteorologist on the 5PM newscast on Channel 11 and then on the 10PM newscast on Fox 53. Mike LaPoint, the current chief meteorologist who works on the 5 and 10PM broadcasts, will continue to work at the station on the 6 and 11PM broadcasts.

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