KYW-TV 3 Philadelphia – Eyewitness News Nightcast with Steve Bell & Diane Allen Intro – May 1988

KYW-TV 3 Philadelphia – Eyewitness News Nightcast with Steve Bell & Diane Allen Intro

Stephen Scott Bell (December 9, 1935 – January 25, 2019) was an American journalist and educator. He was news anchor of the ABC News programs Good Morning America and World News This Morning, and a professor emeritus of telecommunications at Ball State University.

Bell was an ABC News correspondent from 1967 to 1986. He first covered the Vietnam War in 1967, and was held in detention in Cambodia in 1970 while investigating an alleged massacre of nearly 100 Vietnamese civilians by Cambodian soldiers. He met Ted Koppel, later the anchor of the ABC program Nightline, during his years in Southeast Asia, and they became good friends. After his return to the United States, he began working on Good Morning America, becoming the broadcast’s news anchor in 1975. On January 28, 1986, Bell broke the news via an ABC News Special Report that the space shuttle Challenger had exploded.[9] He stayed for 11 years. He left ABC in 1986 and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to co-anchor evening newscasts for KYW-TV. While there, he also anchored short-form news updates for the USA Network, alongside his colleagues at KYW, titled USA Updates.

Bell left KYW in 1992 during an overhaul of the station’s newscasts. He became a telecommunications professor at Ball State University in August 1992. He was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2004. Interviewed in 2005, Bell said he did not miss his work as a newscaster and reporter. He retired from Ball State in 2007, becoming a professor emeritus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bell_(news_anchor)

Diane B. Allen (born March 8, 1948) is an American politician and television journalist. A member of the Republican Party, she represented the 7th legislative district in the New Jersey Assembly from 1996 to 1998 and New Jersey Senate from 1998 to 2018.[1] Allen was the senate majority whip from 1998 to 2001, deputy Republican conference leader from 2002 to 2003, and later deputy minority leader. In 2002, she was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senate, finishing second in the Republican primary.

Allen was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2021 after Jack Ciattarelli announced she had agreed to join his ticket. The pair narrowly lost the general election to the incumbent Democratic ticket of Phil Murphy and Sheila Oliver.

Allen began her broadcast news career in 1970 with WJJZ, an AM radio station based in Mount Holly, New Jersey. She worked at the New Jersey Network before joining an ABC affiliate in Chicago.

In 1976, Allen returned home to cover New Jersey politics for KYW-TV, the then-NBC (now CBS) affiliate in Philadelphia. In 1985, she co-moderated the New Jersey gubernatorial debate between Governor Thomas Kean and Peter Shapiro. She left the network in 1988 and later won a lawsuit against CBS for discriminatory practices.

In 1989, she joined WCAU, the then-CBS (now NBC) affiliate in Philadelphia, and remained there until 1994.

In 2000, Allen briefly served as an interim anchor for CN8 while another anchorwoman was on vacation. This prompted criticism from Senate Minority Leader Richard Codey, who criticized her for conducting her duties as an officeholder while reporting on politics.

Allen is the president of VidComm, Inc., a media production company she founded after her broadcasting career ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Allen


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