Sally Wiggin To Retire From WTAE Pittsburgh

Chronicle host Sally Wiggin has announced plans to retire in November 2018, after nearly four decades of broadcasting on Hearst Television’s ABC affiliate WTAE Pittsburgh (DMA 24). Wiggin made public her decision Monday evening during WTAE’s Black & Gold Primetime special, prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers game.

“My decision to retire next year is something I’ve been planning for quite some time now,” Wiggin said. “Serving southwestern Pennsylvanians as a news anchor, Black & Gold Primetime co-host, and in my current role as Chronicle host has always been both a joy and an honor. I have worked with the best and have served the best community any journalist could ask for.”

Wiggin joined WTAE in 1980, and in January 1981 became co-anchor of the weekend news, a position she held until November 1986, when she was named anchor on the weeknight newscasts. She anchored the 11 p.m. news for 16 years and the 6 p.m. news for 22 years.

During her career Wiggin has earned numerous awards including a George Foster Peabody Award, regional Edward R. Murrow Award, a National Headliner Award, and the Board of Governors Award for the Mid-Atlantic Emmys, and she was inducted into the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.