Walters, Fred

WXYZ: AM News Director.

WIP:

KYW:

Quoted from Broadcast Pioneers, “In 1978, he was transferred to the company’s all﷓news station in New York City, WINS. In 1980, he became National Political Correspondent for Westinghouse, but left the company in September of that year to become news director of the ABC﷓owned radio station in Detroit, WXYZ (now WHYT). Within a year that station became “Michigan’s Most Honored News Team” (based on awards in the state Associated Press and United Press International competitions). It repeated that honor in the next year and also won a national award for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.”

References:

• Broadcast Pioneers, Biography – May 2010 (PDF)
• H. John Heinz III visit to WXYZ, Press Schedule – May 10, 1983 (PDF)