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Buffalo television news journalist

Irv Weinstein
Irv Weinstein in 1973
Born	Irwin B. Weinstein (1930-04-29)April 29, 1930 Rochester, New York, US
Died	December 26, 2017(2017-12-26) (aged 87) Mission Viejo, California, US
Nationality	American
Occupation	Broadcaster, television news anchor
Years active	1945–1998
Notable credit(s)	WKBW Eyewitness News
Spouse(s)	Elaine Weinstein
Children	Beth Krom, Marc Weinstein, Rachel

Irwin B. "Irv" Weinstein (Apr 29, 1930 – Dec 26, 2017)^[1] was an American local telly news anchor and occasional radio actor. He hosted WKBW-TV's Bystander News in Buffalo, New York, for 34 years, from 1964 to 1998, becoming an iconic broadcaster well known in both the Buffalo area and in Southern Ontario, which was within WKBW's broadcast expanse.^[two] Weinstein was known for his powerful delivery and sense of humor. Weinstein, weatherman Tom Jolls and sports anchor Rick Azar fronted the circulate from 1965 until Azar's retirement in 1989. Weinstein was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998^[three] and the Due north.Y. State Broadcasters Association in 2006.^[iv]

Life and career [edit]

Born in Rochester, New York, to Jewish emigrants from Lithuania,^[v] Weinstein began his broadcast career while he was in high school, working at WHAM Radio as an actor on several locally produced programs under the tutelage of Nib Hanrahan. He was paid $7 a day for his work on WHAM, in which Weinstein, whose voice was already mature by the age of 15, would ofttimes play the roles of adults. Weinstein's work on WHAM somewhen led to a single national radio advent, as a i-scene graphic symbol on The Aldrich Family unit, for which he was paid $230, an unusually high sum for the twenty-four hour period.^[6] He initially hoped to pursue an acting career, simply a conversation with Robert Mitchum, who warned Weinstein of a shortage of opportunities in the entertainment industry, convinced Weinstein to nourish broadcasting schoolhouse in New York Metropolis instead.^[five]

After sending out hundreds of resumes and barely getting any responses, he began his professional career at KWWL-Goggle box in Waterloo, Iowa (which lasted only a few months) and various stations in Due west Virginia, in-between working low-end jobs and almost giving up before his wife convinced him not to accept a job with the United States Postal service.^[6] In Due west Virginia, he took the pseudonym "Mark Roberts" and was influenced by the styles of Paul Harvey.^[v] He was hired every bit a newscaster at WKBW Radio in Buffalo in 1958, a role he chose to be closer to his hometown; initially working nether Art Wander, Weinstein eventually became news director.^[3] His fast-paced manner featured strong writing and alliteration ("pistol-packing punks" referring to fiddling criminals, or "Buffalo blaze busters" in identify of firefighters), and it was here where he began referring to himself as "Irv."^[7]

In 1964, Weinstein was hired as news director and anchorman at sister station WKBW-Telly, an ABC Network affiliate.^[3] At the time, the station'south news programs were rated #3 in a three-station market.^[8] Past 1974, WKBW-TV's Bystander News plan had an audition larger than the combined audience of the two competing Buffalo stations. It remained the top-rated newscast until Weinstein'due south retirement in 1998 and beyond. Weinstein's innovations would later exist adapted by Mel Kampmann for the national "Action News" franchise.

In 1968, Weinstein briefly returned to his broadcast beginnings as an histrion in WKBW radio's Halloween accommodation of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. Weinstein also appeared in a 1971 remake, which was re-run in 1998. During his 40-year career in Buffalo, Weinstein appeared in numerous stage productions and, in the early on 1980s, co-owned The Playhouse, a legit theater in downtown Buffalo.^[9]

A WKBW-TV promo for Eyewitness News included a jingle:

"Irv Weinstein, you're really a pro!

Ya got all the news that we wanna know.

You tell information technology like information technology is and never throw us a curve,

Nobody says information technology similar Ir-r-r-r-v !

Eye-wit-ness News (Yes-sah!)"

In 1991, Weinstein was defenseless in a hot mic moment when he critiqued, often harshly, the talent on the station, which was inadvertently fabricated public.^[10]

The day of his retirement, Dec 31, 1998, was proclaimed "Irv Weinstein Day in Erie County" by then-Erie County Executive Dennis Gorski.^[11] V days later, Toronto columnist David Frum wrote a tribute titled "He came from Buffalo" in Canada's National Post paper, writing, "The way the French experience about Jerry Lewis, that's how we feel virtually Irv Weinstein".^[12] In October 2004, Weinstein'southward status as "an icon of tv set journalism in Buffalo" was discussed on the floor of the Ontario Legislature past MPP Tim Hudak.[1] Weinstein was considered a quintessential part of Buffalo culture during his fourth dimension with WKBW and across.^[vi] At the time of his retirement, his 33-year tenure with WKBW was the longest for any news ballast with a single boob tube station in Buffalo, a record that would stand until 2017 when Jacquie Walker of WIVB-TV surpassed Weinstein.^[xiii]

Weinstein, who shifted away from the sensationalist approach toward the cease of his career, explained that the reason he reported on arson and so much compared to, for case, Toronto, was a practical one: Toronto had most of its wood structures burnt down in the 1904 Corking Fire of Toronto, while Buffalo withal had a large stock of wood-frame houses, and thus there were indeed more than fires in Buffalo than in Toronto.^[6]

Weinstein was known for using alliteration in his reporting. Either he or WNEW-TV's Mel Epstein coined the phrase "It'southward eleven:00. Exercise you know where your children are?," a public service declaration now used on numerous other U.South. stations.^[14] The phrase "topping this evening's Eyewitness News" continues to be used to open WKBW'southward newscasts to the present day.

References in popular culture [edit]

Eugene Levy's "Earl Camembert" character on SCTV drew inspiration from Weinstein.^[15]
Producer Brad Grey and comedian Mike Myers cited Weinstein as influences.^[five]
Actor Jim Carrey's grapheme in Bruce Omnipotent, Bruce Nolan, is reported to be partially based on a real-life WKBW-TV reporter who wanted to replace the retiring Weinstein in 1999 only didn't go the job, and partly on real-life feature reporter Don Polec, who handled lighter and humorous features on WKBW during the 1970s.^{[ citation needed ]}
The Buffalo-based comedy stone band Green Jellö parodied Irv and Jolls (as Irv Weinsteingate and Tom Jooles respectively) in the video "Flight of the Skajaquada" from 1992's Cereal Killer.^{[ citation needed ]}
In the film Airplane II: The Sequel, as Boob tube news stations around the world report on an imminent plane crash, a Buffalo newscaster (played by Pat Sajak) is reporting a local arson. This was an homage to Weinstein, who was known for roofing Buffalo's many arson-induced fires.^[15]
In the early 1990s, the Buffalo Bisons would wink Weinstein's confront on their scoreboard during the 7th inning stretch in time to the vocal "Rock and Curl Pt. two" past Gary Glitter. The chorus of "Hey!" was replaced with "Irv!".^[6]

Personal life [edit]

Weinstein and his wife Elaine spent most of their retirement in Irvine, California; they also maintained a second home in Ellicottville, New York until a few years earlier he died. Irv and Elaine Weinstein were married from 1955 until his death. Their daughter, Beth Krom,^[16] served two terms as mayor of Irvine and at present serves on the City Quango. The Weinsteins' son, Marc, is co-owner of Amoeba Music, and their younger daughter, Rachel Lloyd, is an artist and theater administrator in the Pittsburgh surface area.

In summertime 2016, Weinstein was diagnosed with amyotropic lateral sclerosis, after offset experiencing symptoms of the illness in March. With the diagnosis, Weinstein relocated to an assisted living facility in Mission Viejo, California, where he would spend the end of his life. As of November 2016, he could no longer walk but still had full function of his artillery and torso and was in skillful mental condition; he was given a prognosis of five years to live and could notwithstanding speak (with some audible difficulty equally the disease as well affected his breathing).^[17] ^[xviii] Past April 2017, Weinstein was no longer able to speak and communicated solely past typing.^[19] Weinstein died in Mission Viejo on December 26, 2017, aged 87, from complications of the affliction.^[v] ^[15]

References [edit]

^ Pergament, Alan (29 April 2010). "Happy 80th Birthday, Irv". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on v June 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
^ Warley, Stephen (2006-01-xv). Serving their communities: 50 years of the New York Land Broadcasters Clan. Fordham University Press. p. 196. ISBN978-0-9776117-0-6 . Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Broadcasting Hall of Fame - 1998 Inductees". buffalobroadcasters.com. Buffalo Broadcasters Association. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ "Irv Weinstein". nysbroadcasters.org. New York State Broadcasters Association. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^eastward Pergament, Alan (December 26, 2017). "Irv Weinstein, legendary Channel 7 ballast, has died". The Buffalo News . Retrieved December 27, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cichon, Steve. Remembering a Buffalo legend with excerpts from Irv, Buffalo'due south Anchorman. BuffaloStories.com. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
^ "Where Are They Now - Irv Weinstein?". WGRZ. Archived from the original on ten February 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ Baker, Vic. 50 Golden Years of Excellence on WIVB-Boob tube. WIVB-TV. Retrieved 2010-12-10.
^ "Awards & Achievements". Business Commencement of Buffalo. American City Business Journals. 24 July 1998. Archived from the original on xi July 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ Pergament, Alan (September ten, 1991). Weinstein memo riles staffers at Ch. vii. The Buffalo News. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
^ "From top to bottom". FindArticles. 8 June 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ David Frum, "He came from Buffalo", National Mail, January 5, 1999
^ http://weblog.buffalostories.com/jacquie-walker-record-setting-form/
^ "Top 10 Public-Service Announcements - What Time Is It?". Fourth dimension. Retrieved three April 2016. Starting time launched by a pocket-sized ABC chapter in upstate New York...
^ ^a ^b ^c "Remembering Irv Weinstein: A Buffalo Broadcasting Fable". WKBW.com. 26 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^ Nair, K.B. (vii Baronial 2008). "IMA Program Seeks To Build Bridges Between Bharat, State of israel, Southward. Korea". India Periodical . Retrieved 29 July 2010. ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
^ Pergament, Alan (October xvi, 2016). "Circulate fable Irv Weinstein has Lou Gehrig's Illness". The Buffalo News . Retrieved October 16, 2016.
^ Radford, Keith (November 4, 2016). "A few minutes with our love Irv Weinstein". WKBW-TV . Retrieved November 5, 2016.
^ Tan, Sandra (Apr 1, 2017). "ALS won't continue Irv Weinstein from supporting Variety Kids Telethon". The Buffalo News . Retrieved September 5, 2017.