Miller, William R. – ‘Bill’

WXYZ: TV Engineering, film, news ENG editing.

William Reid (Bill) Miller
18 May 1930 – 28 January 2000
Worked at WXYZ: 1966 to 1992

Bill’s Daughter Remembers…

I fondly remember growing up around the station house, typing on Erik Smith’s typewriter (his cubicle was across from my dad’s editing booth, at the time), hanging out with Rob Kress in the weather room (I had wanted to be a meteorologist at one point), playing badminton with Doris Biscoe at a family picnic, eating in the cafeteria in the old farm house, working on the garden plots that we got to use for a few summers, etc. I remember dad was in charge of getting the coffee service set up for everyone at one point. It seemed that place existed solely on caffeine! I remember visiting you [Terry Pochert] in your office, with all the shelves of films and videotapes you were in charge of. Now that I work in a library (not a librarian, just in circulation services), I can only imagine what fun that must have been, keeping track of all those and cataloging them.

Bill’s daughter, Kristin Frasier

• WXYZ Newsroom circa 1980s

  WXYZ: An amazing group of people making WXYZ News number one in the market during the 1980s.

  Nelson Burg, Fran Victor, Marv Rockford, Audio: Greg Karrer, Val Clark, Cheryl Chodun, Bill Miller, Jeff Rundell, Bill Becker,  Garrett Glaser,  Terry Frisco, Mark Zahnow,  Denny Shleifer, Andrea Parquet-Taylor, Garry Kelly,  Dean Erskin,  Al Volker, Jim Powers,  Pat Elnicky, Phyllis Eliasberg, John Gross, Charles Munro,  Judy Miller, Tom Cleeves

• Craig and Bill in Bill Miller’s Edit Room

  In the age of video before hard drivers and digital storage, editing was by analog systems such as what Craig Weiland and Bill Miller are discussing here.