Tag Archives: WPIX
Leon Schweir
Leon Schweir (Television sports. Born, Manchester, CT, Aug. 17, 1952.) Beginning his career with Connecticut Public Television in 1974, Leon Schweir worked with born ESPN and USA Network in 1979-80 before joining MSG Network as a staff producer and director in 1980. Schweir produced Knicks telecasts from 1983-89, when MSG began televising the Yankees, and he […]
Jack Murphy
Jack Murphy (Broadcasting. Born, Trenton, NJ, Mar. 31, 1914; died, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Dec. 24, 1984.) Prior to 1948, there was no local television of baseball in New York as the three teams then active in the City generally agreed not to venture into the new medium. But after the successful telecast of the 1947 […]
Jerry Girard
Jerry Girard (Sportscaster. Born, Chicago, IL, Aug. 6, 1932; died, Hawthorne, NY, Mar. 25, 2007.) Famed for his deadpan wisecracks, Jerry Girard (born Gerard Alfred Suglia) was sports anchor at WPIX (Ch. 11) for over 20 years (1974-95). Girard was raised in The Bronx and attended Manhattan College before a series of disc jockey jobs […]
