Pittsburgh TV Stations Had Whirlwind Year In 2021

January

• The Post-Gazette announced it was cutting its print edition to two days per week.

• KDKA-AM news anchor Rose Ryan Douglas announced her retirement.

• WTAE-TV weekend anchor Brittany Hoke abruptly left the station.

• Jean Connelly, former WTAE-TV talk show host, died at 97.

February

• WPXI's Amy Marcinkiewicz resigned to run for public office.

• WTAE-TV meteorolgist Cam Tran departed the station.

• Rush Limbaugh, 70, conservative talk show host and former KQV-AM disc jockey, died of lung cancer.

March

• Ron Jaye, former WPXI-TV anchor, died at 86.

April

• Cary Pall, former 13Q disc jockey, died at 69.

May

• Veteran KDKA-TV anchor and reporter Paul Martino announced he would retire.

• Longtime KDKA-TV anchor Stacy Smith retired.
  

• The Rev. Dennis Benson, talk show host at WDVE-FM, KQV-FM and WQED-TV., died at 85.

June

• Froggy-104.3 disc jockey and program director David Hopperfield left the station.

• Caleb James, former WHTX-FM disc jockey, died at 58.

July

• WTAE-TV added a new 4 p.m. newscast.

• WPXI-TV investigative reporter Aaron Martin left the station.

• Former KDKA-TV anchor Susan Koeppen was named to anchor WPXI-TV's new 4 p.m. newscast.

• Ricki Wertz, longtime host of WTAE-TV's "Junior High Quiz," died at 86.

• WPXI-TV's Amy Hudak and WTAE-TV's Jim Madalinsky got married.

August

• Veteran WTAE-TV reporter David Kaplan left the station.

September

• Controversial conservative talk show host Wendy Bell found a new radio home.

• WPXI-TV And KDKA-TV "traded" news reporters.

• WTAE-TV hired southwestern Pennsylvania native Ashley Zilka as a reporter.

October

• WTAE-TV hired Kasey Reigner for its weather team.

• KDKA-TV hired southwestern Pennsylvania native Erika Stanish as a new reporter.

• WPXI-TV reporter Michele Newell left town.

• WPXI-TV reporter Mike Holden returned to the air after suffering a mysterious medical ailment.

November

• Longtime WTAE-TV anchor Kelly Frey left the station after more than two decades.

• After six years, Katelyn Sykes left WTAE-TV.

December

• Elena LaQuatra was named anchor of WTAE-TV's noon newscast.

• Longtime WDSY-FM disc jockey Stoney Richards left the station.

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