He was also heard as the announcer on the NBC network program Mr. After serving in World War II, he returned to the station and was named chief announcer in 1947. With the smooth melodious voice of a classic announcer, Ward Fenton joined WBEN as a radio news man in 1941. Maybe more than in other cities, Buffalo’s sports guys have always been among the most popular broadcasters, as they seemed like one of us while helping to bring us closer to heroes on the court, on the field, in the ring, and on the ice through their work.
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The men in this photo and their compatriots across the radio and TV dials helped bring those diversions closer. Officially, they were Memorial Auditorium and War Memorial Stadium, but to Buffalonians they were the Aud and the Rockpile, and they were the great WPA-built stone homes of Buffalo’s greatest diversions: football, hockey, boxing, basketball, and wrestling.
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When injury ended Rifenburg’s professional football career with the Detroit Lions, the former All-American Michigan wide receiver turned to broadcasting and spent nearly 30 years at WBEN Radio and TV. WBEN’s Sports team: Dick Rifenburg, Chuck Healy, Van Miller, and Ralph Hubbell. News anchor John Corbett looks over news scripts hot off the typewriter of Fran Lucca in the Ch.4 newsroom. WBEN Operator/Engineer Tom Whalen gets ready to cue up albums for Clint Buehlman. Soon, his deep rich voice would be heard on WEBR, and in over 20 years there, he hosted the wartime “Noon Day Review” highlighting local GIs and as well as Uncle Ed’s Children’s Hour.Īfter stops at WWOL and WHLD, Tucholka moved to the WBEN stations in 1966 and oversaw WBEN-FM, always reflecting simple dignity and elegance he presented on the radio for nearly 70 years. Steve Geer, Harry Webb and Mike Mearian are among those seated.īob Diamond was a utility man on WKBW, at various times holding down the overnight shift, weekends, the farm report, and production work from the late-50s through the mid-60s.Īs a member of the boys’ choir singing on WGR starting in 1926, Ed Tucholka’s first announcing job was on the PA at Sattler’s, 998 Broadway-talking about the bargains of the day, paging mothers of lost children and generally keeping things moving without benefit of a script.
WBEN’s staff announcers in the late 50s included, standing, Jack Ogilvie, Lou Douglas, Van Miller, Ken Philips, Gene Kelly, Virgil Booth, Carl Erickson, and Bernie Sadler.
The Bisons moved to War Memorial Stadium in 1960. This team photo, with Mazer superimposed in the top right corner, was taken at Offermann Field in the early 50s. The Kenneth Baumler family won a 1959 Studebaker Lark in WBNY’s “Lark Hunt” contest, sponsored by Buffalo’s six-area Studebaker dealers.īill Mazer called Bisons games on WKBW before moving to WGR.
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WBUF-TV weather personalities Joy Wilson and Mac McGarrity share a laugh. Henry Brach (with dark glasses) broadcasting live from Sattler’s with WBNY deejay Mark Edwards.Įngineers Harold Smith and Leroy Fiedler in the WKBW master control room in the mid-1950s. WBNY’s bright red “News from Where It Happens” cruiser, with “Flash Mike and the Mike Patrol.”Ĭhuck Healy goes over prizes like a case of Squirt and TV dinners on Strikes, Spares, and Misses on Ch.4. Steve's Buffalo roots run deep: all eight of his great-grandparents called Buffalo home, with his first ancestors arriving here in 1827.Įxcerpt from 100 Years of Buffalo BroadcastingĬh.7’s Main Street studios on a snowy night in the late 50s. Why? Western New York’s embedded in his DNA. When you browse the blog here at Buffalo Stories LLC, you’re bound to not only relive a memory– but also find some context for our pop culture past– and see exciting ways how it might fit into our region’s boundless future. The 25-year veteran of Buffalo radio and television has written five books and curates The Buffalo Stories Archives- hundreds of thousands of books, images, and audio/visual media which tell the stories of who we are in Western New York.Ĭichon puts his wide range of professional experience-from college professor, to PBS documentary producer, to radio news director, to candidate for countywide elected office-to work in producing meaningful interpretations of the two centuries worth of people, places, and events that make Buffalo the unique place that we love.įrom the earliest days of the internet, Steve has been writing, digitizing, and sharing the stories and images of all the things that make Buffalo special and unique. He writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. writing about the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. Steve Cichon is a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves.
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