Was News Dir. Gilardi said that she made the move in part to be closer to family. According to its latest report, the BU CTE Center said it has diagnosed 345 former NFL players with CTE out of 376 former players who were studied, a rate of 91.7%. Retired and now a full-time sculptor, Wilbraham Passed Away He really didnt want to be with people, said his widow, Liz Cross. Paul Post 03/01/1973) (Lifestyles in CT He has been part of the Channel 3 Early Warning Forecast Team since July 2003. function encrypt_mail(){ var cry0,cry1,cry2,cry3,cry4,cry5,cry6,cry7,cry8,cry9; cry1=' Mark Dixon promoted to Chief Meteorologist at WFSB, Christine and Salt wanna know, is Scot Haney mad? in a RV. I do think theres more education about the risks of football and I do think theres more awareness of concussion management but I still think were way, way behind where we should be, McKee said. Many viewers northeast of Hartford got a better signal for CBS programming from WNAC-TV (now WHDH) in Boston or WPRO-TV (now WPRI-TV) in Providence, Rhode Island, while those southwest of Hartford with an outdoor antenna were able to watch the network via New York City flagship station WCBS-TV. Retired from Voice of America. Dixon works at WFSB where he works alongside other famous WFSB anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including. Corrections. Sadly, they include 10 more people: morning co-anchor Eric Parker (above), Assistant News Director Shawana Perry, meteorologist Mike Cameron, nightside Executive Producer Bill Hall, and the entire Art department (which creates the station's graphics). He was the nicest, kindest, most helpful, wonderful man I ever met, Liz Cross said. It is hard to adequately acknowledge their contributions in a memo. VP No, the 76-year-old widow said. Shes also worked St. Joseph and Springfield, Mo., before working at WOWT in Omaha. 07/01/2007) (Cortland Now retired in Hagerstown MD. Floyd Richards, (Profile) (2nd Univ. Passed Away Richard's ", Meteorologist Jill Gilardi joins the WFSB weekend weather team. Profile. Passed During its first year on the air, Channel 3 was an independent station, as ABC was affiliated with the state's other VHF outlet, WNHC-TV (channel 8, now WTNH) in New Haven; while CBS and NBC had owned-and-operated stations on the UHF band in the market, WHCT-TV (channel 18, now Univision affiliate WUVN) in Hartford and WNBC (channel 30, now WVIT) in New Britain, respectively. In 2007, the station launched a digital subchannel branded as Eyewitness News Now. Passed away The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Even though Fairfield County is part of the New York City market where CBS flagship WCBS-TV is based, WFSB targets viewers in the area through "WFSB Fairfield County" on a fourth digital subchannel and the digital tier of Optimum systems. Venit, (Profile 1), (Profile 2) Lani Jurev, Announcer. Now Judge of Probate, Hartford; Killian Dr. Ann McKee, a professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University, said she was not surprised Irv Cross brain reached stage 4 given the length of his overall football career (the study counted 17 years) and his age. E. Smith, FM Music Director, Announcer (Robert E. Smith's Announcer. The sale was completed on December 1. The Laurel | "Fostering cooperation among legislative newspapermen (and women, and broadcast journalists, and bloggers, and media junkies).