The Dawgz
Thanks to Big Dawgz Bill Tanner and Pat Mars for allowing me to talk about UND’s Great Conversation with Sam Anderson on their enormously popular, hugely rated, impeccably produced radio program this...
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Looking back on the year about to end, we’ve had some awesome (as the children say) guests on WDAZ News @5 this year. In the studio, we’ve talked with the likes of actor Sam Anderson from Lost and...
View ArticleTwenty (or so) Questions for Casey Wonnenberg
My new co-anchor Casey Wonnenberg and I have a week’s worth of WDAZ News @5 broadcasts under our collective belt now. (That doesn’t sound right.) Anyway, it seems like a good time to find out a...
View ArticleMr. Awesome
It’s been a sad day for many of us at WDAZ–especially me. This was Darren’s Lien’s last day at Channel 8. Darren is the man who has directed WDAZ News @5 for the past several years. At the station,...
View ArticleDavid, Rick, A.J. & Me
So, I’m getting ready to talk via satellite with illusionist extraordinaire David Copperfield and athlete turned actor Rick Fox on News @5 this evening. Just before we go on, I notice the two of them...
View ArticleMy Jack Benny Anniversary
Thanks, everybody, for the nice comments about my first thirty-nine years at WDAZ, or as Pat Sweeney calls it my Jack Benny anniversary. (Pat & I are the only two in the newsroom old enough to...
View ArticleWDAY now airs 5 p.m. news
WDAY now airs 5 p.m. news By Garrett Richie Herald Staff Writer For the first time since the flood of 1997, viewers of WDAZ’s local 5 p.m. Monday broadcast didn’t see local Grand Forks anchors....
View ArticleWDAY ‘Zxtra
Ginny and I had a great time at the WDAY alumni luncheon today in Fargo catching up with old friends and some new ones we didn’t know we had. It’s fun being around such happy, upbeat and relatively...
View ArticleThe Shortest Song In The World
An interview I did with Dan Keating of KMAV/KMSR Radio in Mayvillle stirred up some memories for me earlier today. Clomping down memory lane a bit. For me, before there was television, there was radio....
View ArticleA Death In The Family
I don’t know why but as each passing year draws to a close, I get a little verklempt. For me, one of the saddest things this year was learning that WDAZ-TV newscasts would no longer originate from...
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