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Nexstar Media today promoted Bina Roy to vice president and general manager of its multicast networks, responsible for business development and affiliate partnerships with more than 15 networks providing programming across the company’s portfolio of more than 600 subchannels. She will also oversee efforts to maximize the use of Nexstar’s broadcast spectrum in 116 television […]
The Dresswala’s Tale One star dimmed, another dazzled in true Bollywood tradition Ramdas Madvi was getting restive as Madam had not come. It was already 9.30 PM. This does not usually happen. Though weak and frail with cancer sapping all her youthfulness, she walks to his vegetable pushcart to collect some capsicum, tomatoes, potatoes and cauliflower meant to be discarded after the day’s brisk business. Ramdas, however, keeps fresh vegetables in his cane tokri. But he tells Madam they are all meant to be thrown away, as he keeps his pushcart in a warehouse a little way from the Bandra t...
John Kiesewetter Saying that Pat Barry's death Feb. 20 won't stop him from helping "the city he loved and its people," his closest friends have established the Pat Barry Memorial Scholarship Fund. The fund announced Thursday "will give a boost to the next generation of broadcasters and help further other worthy causes," said the release from former WLWT-TV reporter Bina Roy, a longtime friend. "Over the decades, Pat found himself surrounded by a cadre of loyal fans, from Hall of Famers to countless up and coming broadcasters. Their dedication was rooted in Pat's lifetime of helping others, ...
Courtesy Bina Roy Update 9 a.m. Tuesday Feb. 23: Jerry Springer called from his Sarasota home to talk about his old pal Pat Barry, and told me how and why Pat left radio to become WLWT-TV's main weatherman in 1984. It was Springer's idea. Springer says he suggested to general manager Tony Kiernan that they hire Barry in an attempt to replicate the success of Willard Scott, NBC's hugely popular Today show weatherman who was not a meteorologist. Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie "Pat Barry was a big name on local radio, on Q102. Instead of hiring a meteorologist, I told Tony, 'Why not spice u...
John Kiesewetter Pat Barry, who parlayed his Q102 popularity into a Greater Cincinnati radio and TV career spanning five decades, died of COVID-19 Saturday afternoon, Feb. 20. He was 69. The Springfield, Ohio, native burst upon WKRQ-FM’s airwaves in 1974, playing Top 40 hits, and became one of the best known TV/radio personalities in town, thanks to his welcoming smile, loyalty to friends and self-deprecating humor. Pat Barry in the WKRQ-FM (Q102) studio in the early 1980s. Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie He liked to joke that he started his career in his hometown "at a really big station...