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TV Talk: KDKA-TV hires meteorologist; ‘Kingstown’ trailer debutsVideo

Following the August retirement of forecaster Kristin Emery, KDKA-TV this week announced a new weekend morning meteorologist hire, Rob Wilson. The Fox Chapel resident most recently worked as a financial adviser, but he had a long stint as a meteorologist in Erie at WICU, where he worked from 2000 to...
TV Talk: Upper St. Clair grad’s restaurants profiled on PBS; ‘Matlock’ returnsVideo

Upper St. Clair native Jamie Brown gained notoriety in her hometown as a standout basketball player alongside her identical twin sister, Kerry, who both went on to play for Davidson College. Since settling in Charlotte, N.C., Brown and her husband, Jeff Tonidandel, are better known as local restaurateurs. Their endeavors...
TV Q&A: Is there a clear TV season anymore?

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: It seems that there is no actual TV season anymore, even by network. I wouldn’t take up your time with this, but I was recently...
TV Talk: KDKA-TV names station veteran as news director

Almost two months after the departure of news director Shawn Hoder for the top news department job at CBS’s Atlanta affiliate, KDKA-TV named Cathy Noschese its news director. Noschese has worked at KDKA for three decades, rising from production assistant to writer, producer, executive producer, managing editor and most recently...
TV Talk: Western Pa. mansion profiled on HGTV’s ‘Scariest House;’ WPXI reporter exitsVideo

Former Pittsburghers Thom Hutter and Edward Handley weren’t looking to buy a haunted house. Initially, they just wanted to remodel the kitchen of their Observatory Hill home. But when the Greenville Manor, a former funeral home in Greenville, Mercer County, popped up on a Facebook feed for sale two years...
TV Q&A: Why are meteorologists on the move?Video

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: I have heard several announcements from KDKA-TV and WTAE that the weather forecasters’ schedules are changing. Jeff Verszyla on WTAE is now on weekends, and...
TV Talk: Green Tree native Zachary Quinto is back in season 2 of ‘Brilliant Minds’Video

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. This fall’s 10 p.m. Monday night broadcast schedule pits a Western Pa. native, Zachary Quinto, starring in NBC’s “Brilliant Minds,” against a Pittsburgh-set series, CBS’s “Watson” (debuting Oct. 13). Both shows are medical dramas. Both...
TV Talk: Pitt grad powers Glen Powell football comedy ‘Chad Powers’Video

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Given his recent run on the big screen starring in commercial hits (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Twisters,” “Anyone But You”) and critical darlings (“Hit Man”), it’s impressive that streamer Hulu got Glen Powell to lead the...
TV Talk: Stacy Smith, Patrice King Brown reunite for UPMC video podcastVideo

It’s been 14 years since they anchored a KDKA-TV newscast together, but Patrice King Brown, who retired in 2011, and Stacy Smith, who hung up his mic in 2021, reunited this summer to record a UPMC Health Plan video podcast, “Medicare for the Record.” Although the job was different, Brown...
TV Q&A: Where has KDKA-TV anchor Meghan Schiller been?

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Is Meghan Schiller among those let go from KDKA? — Jean, via email Rob: Nope, she’s just out on maternity leave and is expected to...
TV Talk: Ford exits WPXI; regional Emmy winners

Late last week, WPXI reporter Nicole Ford posted to Facebook that she’s leaving Channel 11 and broadcast news after her last report on Sept. 26. “Journalism was always the dream — helping people and sharing their stories through both the darkest and brightest moments of their lives,” Ford wrote. “This...
Some Western Pa. stations will block Jimmy Kimmel’s return — here’s where to watch

ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is about to have its highest-rated episode in years. Pittsburghers can see his return to the airwaves following a four-day suspension Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. on WTAE, which is owned by Hearst Broadcasting. However, some viewers won’t be able to watch on ABC affiliates owned by...
TV Talk: Scuzzy ‘Lowdown’ surprises with plot twists, kooky charactersVideo

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. A grungy comedic drama, FX’s “The Lowdown” (9 p.m. Tuesday, FX; next day on Hulu) introduces a passel of original characters, even if you can almost smell the stink wafting off many of them. A...
Filming of ‘The Pitt’ continues at Allegheny General Hospital

Noah Wyle wrapped filming in Pittsburgh after Wednesday’s first day of local production and was en route back to Los Angeles on Thursday. But filming continued around the exterior of Allegheny General Hospital for scenes in the upcoming second season of HBO Max’s “The Pitt,” which will stream in January....
TV Talk: BroadwayHD debuts ‘Jaws’ play; Daniel Tiger visits Etna

Pittsburghers who flocked to Barebones Productions’ “The Shark Is Broken,” take note: The original British production, written by playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, was filmed during a tour of the United Kingdom earlier this year and will stream on BroadwayHD beginning Oct. 16. This comedic stage play is set...
TV Talk: Noah Wyle rides a motorcycle as ‘The Pitt’ filming begins in Pittsburgh

A production assistant shouts, “Background!” An extra playing a jogger immediately goes from standstill to running as an ambulance rushes up Cedar Avenue toward Allegheny General Hospital, otherwise known as Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center on “The Pitt.” Behind the ambulance, Emmy-winner Noah Wyle, playing Dr. Robby, rides a motorcycle as...

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