WGRZ Buffalo Anchor Scott Levin Demands Apology From Niagara Falls Mayor After Abrupt Interview Exit
Earth-Shaking Breaking News Hits Buffalo TV Stations
On Monday, Feb. 6, at around 6:15 in the morning, a 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Buffalo, N.Y., the strongest recorded in the area in 40 years. Buffalo’s TV stations were airing their morning newscasts at the time and began reporting on the rare phenomenon.
WGRZ Promos Unite And Inspire The Buffalo Community
It’s been tough for the city of Buffalo, N.Y. First, a city used to snow gets a crippling blizzard. Then, a member of the Buffalo Bills football team is carted off the field, and the game is canceled. “These were difficult stories, so we wanted to keep the tone optimistic, positive, a bit uplifting and community-centric,” says Dan Meyers, the marketing director at WGRZ.
Exclusives
They may have left Buffalo, but many former local TV reporters also left a piece of their hearts there. That was clear recently when they left their current stations in bigger markets to help stations in Buffalo cover the racist mass shooting at the Tops supermarket. Those reporters were an asset in covering one of the biggest stories in recent local history because they knew the area and some of the newsmakers before they moved to bigger markets.
Tegna promotes him from director of sales to succeed the retiring Jim Toellner as head of the NBC affiliate.
WKBW, WGRZ, WUTV, WIVB and WNYO are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.
WGRZ’s ‘Most Buffalo’ Offers Light Take On News
WUSA in Washington, D.C., WVEC in Norfolk, Va., and WGRZ in Buffalo, N.Y., have returned to the Verizon Fios lineup.
WGRZ Hopes Welshofer Boosts ‘Daybreak,’ Website
Facebook Live Lifts WGRZ To Top Of Social
Strategic and regular use of Facebook Live has helped propel WGRZ, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Buffalo, N.Y., to first place among the market’s social media, says Kim Degeorge-Pike, WRGZ’s digital director. WGRZ has more than 2.5 million social actions, 31% of the total engagement generated by the DMA, according to data from audience insight firm Shareablee.
WGRZ Hires Welshofer For ‘Daybreak,’ Digital Content
WGRZ: Benigni Back To Sports, Gallivan To ‘Daybreak’
WGRZ Forced To Stop Streaming HS Game
Scott Levin Returns To WGRZ Anchor Chair
WGRZ’s Erica Brecher Sidelined By Softball Injury
WGRZ Promos Win Gold, Silver & Bronze Awards
Kate Glover wasn’t WGRZ Buffalo, N.Y.’s news director long enough to become a household name, but the Tegna NBC affiliate’s GM, Jim Toellner, decided Wednesday she was at the station long enough. A Western New York native who was hired last September, Glover was fired after only seven months on the job.
