![]() ![]() ![]() anchorwoman Elsa Ramon is back doing television news - in Los Angeles. “My friend (sportscaster) David Chancellor is supposed to be on vacation with his beautiful family.and is coming in just for me Sunday night at 10. “I’m not sure what they have planned, but I’m sure it will be entertaining,” Ortiz said. news Sunday and enjoy the special farewell Jackie’s colleagues have planned for the Southside High School grad with the radiant smile. Such a confidence-booster could help them tremendously. Titled “Who Has the Power? I Do,” the book sounds like a must-read for youngsters, who, oft-times, aren’t as carefree as they seem. No one else can make them feel that way.” It’s a story that helps children understand they have the power to be happy or sad. I now need to meet with an illustrator and publisher. “I’ve been working on a children’s book,” Ortiz revealed in a message. This weekend is your last chance to enjoy the personable, down-to-earth anchoring of WOAI-TV veteran Jacqueline Ortiz (photo above) on the local news.Īs I explained before, Ortiz is waving goodbye to 16 years of newscasting/reporting to devote more time to her family.Īs it turns out, however, her own children, ages 6 and 9, aren’t the only young people who will benefit from her newly freed-up energies. I’m still covering television in La-La Land, but right now, I’m channeling San Antonio. ![]() He’s certainly a San Antonio name I’ll never forget, one of only a handful of radio personalities during my 30-plus years as a media columnist who regularly, without fail, kept my job interesting.īEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Rumor has it he will be doing mid-days at KGOD.”Īmong his survivors are Wiglesworth’s wife, Laurie Malfatano Wiglesworth, who also was a long time WOAI 1200 employee.Īccording to WOAI, relatives have said there will be simply an ‘intimate family gathering’ to remember Carl. Carl hired me at KONO/KITY in 1975.” Woods then added a bit of humor: “May he rest in peace. radio legend.” Lee Woods, another local radio veteran, also wrote special words Tuesday night to honor him: ”A dear old friend and fellow Radio Hall of Famer, Carl Truman Wigleswoth, passed away today. Longtime KTSA morning talk host, Trey Ware, wrote a tribute to Wiglesworth on his Facebook page Wednesday morning, calling him an “S.A. “To talk to people who had differing opinions from the status quo, that was the bread and butter of Carl’s program,” Sonneland said in a remembrance of Wiglesworth on. Their programs were discontinued in 2007, however, to make room for an all-music format. Wiglesworth made a brief radio comeback in 2005, when he and another WOAI and KTSA veteran, Eliza Sonneland, were hired to helm talk shows for nostalgia - now easy listening - station KAHL. He railed on that station as well from 1998 through 2004 when the talk station discontinued his show because of what managers termed lagging ratings. It wasn’t long before he caught on at competitor, KTSA. Wiglesworth, then 57, walked out of his afternoon show after upstart WOAI sports voice Jim Rome berated him publicly with what Wiglesworth called “ageist” remarks. Wiglesworth was a force to be reckoned with when he helmed talk shows on, first, WOAI for 21 years, then KTSA for six.Įven his departure from WOAI in 1997 was anything but quiet. He suffered a massive heart attack Friday night, WOAI reported on its webpage, and was rushed to Methodist Stone Oak Hospital, but never regained consciousness. One of S.A.’s most articulate and vociferous “angry men,” he railed against government interference and waged talk campaigns against everything from fluoride to the Applewhite reservoir to the building of the Alamodome. Wiglesworth was a prominent staple on the airwaves here during the ’80s and ’90s. The conservative talk institution, who helmed shows on local radio for nearly three decades, has died. Farewell, Carl Wiglesworth, you were one of San Antonio’s most prominent radio warriors, particularly when it came to fighting City Hall.
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