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Fox 5 news anchor fired4/4/2024 I covered two Super Bowl parades, one Stanley Cup parade, the 2011 Winter Classic between the Pens and Caps, and the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star game. I was hired as a traffic reporter, but soon found myself on the anchor desk, in the field, co-hosting a Pittsburgh Steelers pre-game show with Hines Ward, Ryan Clark, and Antwaan Randle-El, and doing intermission reports for Pittsburgh Penguins preseason games. I fulfilled my dream of working in television news in my hometown a few years later, spending more than six years at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. Don’t get me wrong – I loved my time there, but during my first winter there, I dug out through 181 inches of snow. I did everything from reporting and anchoring to (once again) covering high school football. I covered some Pittsburgh Pirates games for a sports radio station, too.įrom there, I moved to the snowy abyss of upstate New York to work for Time Warner’s 24-hour news operation in Syracuse. until 5 a.m., writing, editing, and anchoring newscasts for several stations. I did play-by-play for California University athletics (go Vulcans!), but during the 2000 elections, my passion became news.įor two years, I ran the overnight operations for a radio news operation in Pittsburgh. I lugged the camera around, shot the games, and turned around the highlights for a local cable channel. Someone once said I looked like a sports guy (even though my athleticism extended to bowling and mini-golf), so I went right into covering the dozens of high school football teams throughout Western Pennsylvania. If that didn’t foreshadow where I’d end up thirty years later, then I don’t know what would have given it away! I know there are some junior high yearbooks inscribed with "Jim Lokay, the 45th President of the United States," but I opted for radio and television the day I arrived on the campus of California University of Pennsylvania, and I never looked back. I worked the rooms at family parties, I recited current events for total strangers, and I used any excuse to make announcements over the loudspeaker at the bowling alley my dad ran for years. When I was a kid, I had this knack for talking to just about anyone and an obsession with being near a microphone.
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