On this edition of “Fireside Chats With Nyberg” former News 8 anchor, Janet Peckinpaugh. She was at the news desk from 1984 to 1987 at Channel 8. She told me stories I never knew about her. She was raised in Ohio and went to Indiana University. She is now a realtor and lives in Essex Read more…
On this date, January 16th, 1987, 30 years ago, I came to WTNH-TV, I was a mother of one, the twins had not arrived, that would be in 1989. In 1987, which seems like a lifetime ago, we were Action News 8. One gallon of gas cost 89 cents on average, a US Postage Stamp Read more…
We hear it everyday, attention spans are short, keep stories shorts and videos too. Twenty-eight-year old, Rush Sadiwala from Bombay, India wanted to keep young people informed about the world around them and has figured out a way to do that with his news app called “ZOLT.” He is aggregating news stories, boiling them down to 60 Read more…
Broadcast Engineer, Phil Zocco of Niantic, Connecticut lives, eats, breathes and drinks WTNH-TV, News 8 in New Haven, Connecticut. The station (abc affiliate) wouldn’t be on the air without his steadfast dedication to “making it happen” on time and live. Zocco began his career in October of 1979, he remembers the exact date, it was Read more…
