(Update: WJAS changed to a Talk format in August 2014 and dropped Bogut.) I'm not certain about his age, but the fact that he was married in 1961 suggests he's in his early-80s. He's still on the radio, now on WJAS, and I listen to his show whenever I visit my mother. I listened to his show as I got ready for school and still remember his creepy/comical ode to the ' Slithery Dee'. She died in 1989 at the age of 49.īogut came to Pittsburgh in 1968, working for KDKA Radio.

Not very knowledgeable about sports, she lasted just two years. She rocked the boat as Pittsburgh's first female TV sports announcer, first appearing on KDKA in 1973. (This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, just the people who made a lasting impression with me.) (And with no cable channels back then their presence was even more ubiquitous.) Here, in alphabetical order, are the names and faces from that era that I remember best.

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