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Sad news out of Atlanta tonight. Dave Michaels, a longtime news anchor for 11Alive, CNN and other outlets died this month at 88 years old.

His wife, Ann, contacted 11Alive on Friday and said he had passed away on Feb. 1 – after a long illness of Alzheimer's and congestive
heart failure. He was at home in hospice care at the time he died. Michaels worked at WXIA from 1976 to 1985.
 
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Sad news out of Los Angeles, longtime KTTV news reporter Tony Valdez has passed away. I grew up watching him in Los Angeles for many years and he was a true Los Angeles Historian. Our condolences to his family. He will be missed.

 

Speaking of Paul Bloom, he worked at KHJ-TV in the 1980s, along with two other recently deceased anchors Tom Lawrence and Wendy Gordon.

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Newton Minow, the former FCC chairman who once coined television as a "vast wasteland" has died.

https://tvnewscheck.com/regulation/article/newton-minow-former-fcc-chief-who-dubbed-tv-a-vast-wasteland-dies/

 

During his time, he championed the passage of the All-channel receivers act, mandating that all televisions had the ability to receive the UHF band, as well as helping lay the groundwork for NET and later, PBS.

 

The "S.S. Minnow" on Gilligan's Island was coined after him, in jest to his "vast wasteland" remarks.  A minnow being a small fish, helped to make the name stick.

 

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Former longtime WNEW/WNYW FOX 5 News anchor John Roland passed away. Condolences go out to The Roland Family and to his extended family at New York's FOX 5. RIP John and Godspeed. And say hello to Bill McCreary from all of us here. I know that they're now reunited in heaven and anchoring the news together again.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/john-roland-fox-5-anchor-passes-away

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Former longtime WNEW/WNYW FOX 5 News anchor John Roland passed away. Condolences go out to The Roland Family and to his extended family at New York's FOX 5. RIP John and Godspeed. And say hello to Bill McCreary from all of us here. I know that they're now reunited in heaven and anchoring the news together again.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/john-roland-fox-5-anchor-passes-away

Here's his former co-anchor Rosanna Scotto with the report.

 

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A Salt Lake City news legend is gone. Dick Nourse the longtime anchor of KSL 5 (Eyewitness) News has passed away at the age of 83. Dick was a Utah Institution alongside weatherman Bob Welti and sportscaster Paul James and became the #1 rated news team in Salt Lake City. Nourse worked alongside many KSL legends like Shelly Thomas, Bruce Lindsay, Carole Mikita, Craig Bolerjack, Keith McCord and the list goes on and on. Prayers and condolences go out to the family of Dick Nourse and the staff and management of KSL 5 (Eyewitness) News at this challenging time.

 

https://ksltv.com/551381/tv-legend-and-longtime-ksl-anchor-dick-nourse-has-died-at-83/

 

Dick may your memory and legacy of SLC television news lives on in spirit and say hi to Welti and James from all of us here. RIP and Godspeed, you are in a better place.

 

 

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