We'd be remiss in our role as a site honoring local media history if we didn't mention the passing of Alice Weston on Tuesday.Generations of Cleveland TV viewers - and we mean literally, generations - watched Alice Weston on local TV. In her 50-plus year career, which took her to pretty much every local TV station, Alice was a true fixture of this TV market.
She was a pioneer, as well...becoming the first female TV host in this region when she joined WEWS/5 just a year after the station hit the airwaves.
After a stint in Pittsburgh in the 1960's, Weston returned to Cleveland, where she ended her TV career in the mid-1990's at WKYC/3...at the age of 86. She died at her Sheffield Lake home at the age of 95.
OMW reader and regular tipster Nathan Obral tells us that Weston, a long-time Lorain County resident, was also one of the first announcers for Elyria's WEOL/930 and its FM sister station, which is still co-owned as today's WNWV/107.3 "The Wave".
Her first station, WEWS, weighs in online here...and WKYC.com has an item here...
I remember Alice back in the day on CH.43 with her public affairs program and then her last run at CH.3 ALWAYS A TRUE LADY WITH CLASS,YOU'LL BE MISSED AND GOD BLESS YOU ALICE.
ReplyDeleteI mostly associate Alice Weston with WUAB Channel 43.
ReplyDeleteYes, Alice did join WUAB when the station signed on in 1968. She contributed Lorain-related news and features (to furfill the Lorain COL, IIRC, there was a small remote studio WUAB used from downtown Lorain fed back to the Day Drive studios) for many years.
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As an ex-Pittsburgher, I remember Alice Weston for her daytime ladies' chat show, "Luncheon at the Ones," for WIIC-TV, Channel 11 (hence the program title) in the early- to mid-1960s. A program format and personality style that now are both long gone.
ReplyDeleteHope she's spending some time now with Ms. Fuldheim.
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