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Wally Kennedy is a Philadelphia television and radio announcer. He hosted AM Philadelphia (later AM Live), Philly After Midnight, and Inside Story on WPVI-TV over a twenty-year period.
He is a native of Chicago, where he graduated from Columbia College Chicago.
His programs won their respective time periods in the Nielsen ratings, remaining the most successful talk programs in the TV market. He hosted a local, news-driven Sunday morning talk program, Sunday Live, on WPVI. He was among a handful of broadcasters to be honored by the Philadelphia City Council for outstanding service. He appeared on CNN, NBC and ABC television networks, at different times, to discuss stories he covered.
Kennedy was profiled in Philadelphia Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia City Paper. In 2004, he left WPVI and joined the faculty at Temple University's School of Journalism as an adjunct professor. Prior to WPVI, he was at WCAU in Philadelphia and WSB Radio in Atlanta.
He has been an anchor for KYW NewsRadio 1060 since 2006. He is also currently an adjunct professor at Immaculata University.
Following his selection by the board of directors, Kennedy was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia "Hall of Fame" in 2011.
Kennedy lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania with his wife, and has three grown children. [1]
WABC-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is the flagship station of the ABC television network, licensed to New York, New York, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. WABC-TV's studios are located on Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.
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David Cunningham Garroway was an American television personality. He was the founding host and anchor of NBC's Today from 1952 to 1961. His easygoing and relaxing style belied a lifelong battle with depression. Garroway has been honored for his contributions to radio and television with a star for each on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as the St. Louis Walk of Fame, the city where he spent part of his teenage years and early adulthood.
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Thomas James Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the prime time NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in prime time.
Robert John Brinker is an American financial advisor and radio host. From 1986 to 2018, Brinker hosted the syndicated financial radio show Moneytalk. He previously had a show on local New York radio on WMCA. Prior to that Brinker hosted talk radio programs on WCAU and WWDB in Philadelphia.
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Captain Noah and His Magical Ark was a television program for children and was generally broadcast around the Philadelphia area. The series aired from 1967 to 1994. It was filmed and produced at the WPVI-TV, Channel 6 studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Bill "Wee Willie" Webber was an American radio and television personality and pioneer. Webber worked in radio and television in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, region for more than 50 years.
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