Friends, Former Co-Workers Remember Pat Barry
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...
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