Connect with us
BNM Summit

News Radio

WTOP Anchor Opens Up About COVID-19 Battle

“If you get anything out of my story, I hope it’s to take any sign of COVID-19 — or any health problem — seriously and get checked out,” Alan said.

Ryan Hedrick

Published

on

A Washington D.C. news anchor is sharing his story about his battle with the coronavirus. WTOP’s Bruce Alan told reporter Megan Cloherty that he tested positive for COVID-19 back on Jan 11. 

“I gave COVID-19 too much of a head start, and I almost paid for it with my life.”

Alan said he came down with a virus on New Year’s Day but that he took a COVID test a day later and it came back negative. 

“If you get anything out of my story, I hope it’s to take any sign of COVID-19 — or any health problem — seriously and get checked out,” Alan said during an exclusive interview on the station’s website

Alan said he visited an urgent care on Jan 9. for another test that also came back negative. Two days later, a polymerase chain reaction test; a test to detect the presence of a virus if you are infected at the time of the test, came back positive. 

“I couldn’t work, of course, but I told News Director Darci Marchese that I felt OK and would surely beat whatever it was pretty quickly,” he said. “But I continued to feel worse.”

“They say COVID-19 causes “brain fog,” said Alan. “I don’t know whether that’s what I had, but during the two days I was home after my positive test — Jan. 11 and 12 — I ignored some pretty obvious warning signs that I was really sick.”

Alan said he was hospitalized for 12 days but still considers himself lucky based on some of the other stories that he has heard about. 

“Take everything seriously,” he said “If you have any concerns, get tested and find out. If you even think you need medical care, go seek it out. The worst that can happen is they’ll tell you, “you’re OK.”

Subscribe To The BNM Rundown

The Top 8 News Media Stories of the Day, sent directly to your inbox every afternoon!

Invalid email address
We promise not to spam you. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Continue Reading
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

News Radio

77 WABC Cancels The Rudy Giuliani Show After Continued Discussion of 2020 Election Results

“We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice.”

Barrett News Media

Published

on

A photo of Rudy Giuliani
(Photo: BRENDAN MCDERMID | REUTERS)

According to a report from The New York Times, 77 WABC has ended the afternoon show hosted by former New York Mayor and Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The program — heard from 3-4 PM ET — was hosted by Curtis Sliwa Friday, but still used The Rudy Giuliani Show branding.

According to the Times report, station owner John Catsimatidis had continually told the former New York mayor not to air discussions about the 2020 presidential election, which Rudy Giuliani has continually shared he did not believe the results were valid. He has been criminally charged in both Georgia and Arizona for his role in attempting to overturn the results that went against the former President.

“We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election. We warned him once. We warned him twice,” Catsimatidis told the newspaper. “And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it. So, he left me no option. I suspended him.”

While he noted he “liked the guy as a person,” Catsimatidis said he couldn’t allow the former New York mayor “to cross that line.”

Subscribe To The BNM Rundown

The Top 8 News Media Stories of the Day, sent directly to your inbox every afternoon!

Invalid email address
We promise not to spam you. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Continue Reading

News Radio

KNX News Morning Co-Host Jennifer York Departs

Brand Manager Alex Silverman shared that York was exiting the station to follow “her calling to become a full-time therapist.”

Barrett News Media

Published

on

A photo of Jennifer York
(Photo: Jennifer York)

After more than a decade with the station, Jennifer York is departing her morning show co-host role on KNX News.

York began her media career at Good Morning America as a producer, before departing the field to work as a musician at Disneyland. She later began her traffic report career at KFWB and KTLA before joining KFSH. She ultimately landed at KNX News in 2012 and worked alongside Dick Helton until his 2022 retirement. She was then paired with Vicky Moore and Mike Simpson for a revamped LA’s Morning News.

Brand Manager Alex Silverman shared that York was exiting the station to follow “her calling to become a full-time therapist.”

“GOOD LUCK to an amazing colleague and better human!,” he wrote in a social media post.

Subscribe To The BNM Rundown

The Top 8 News Media Stories of the Day, sent directly to your inbox every afternoon!

Invalid email address
We promise not to spam you. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Continue Reading

News Radio

Mark Arum: I’d Love to Be a College Commencement Speaker

“You don’t have to pay for lodging, food, nothing. I just want an honorary doctorate degree.”

Barrett News Media

Published

on

A photo of Mark Arum
(Photo: WSB Radio)

Late last week, SiriusXM and CNN host Michael Smerconish revealed he had been uninvited to give a commencement address at a small Pennsylvania college. 95.5 WSB host Mark Arum just wants to be invited to give a speech.

While discussing pushback that President Joe Biden is receiving from Morehouse College students that he was selected as the college’s commencement speaker, The Mark Arum Show host said it is something he has always wanted to do.

“I will do it free,” Arum said. “You don’t have to pay me for travel. You don’t have to pay for lodging, food, nothing. I just want an honorary doctorate degree. And I’d be very happy to give a commencement speech somewhere. That’s an open offer to anyone out there.”

Radio hosts aren’t an uncommon commencement speaker as one might think.

Longtime Philadelphia sports radio host Howard Eskin spoke at the graduation at Goldey-Beacom College last week and was awarded the honorary doctorate degree that Arum is chasing.

Meanwhile, in Smerconish’s case, he said a passage from his 2004 book about travel safety procedures after 9/11 was the reason he was viewed as too controversial of a candidate for Dickinson College to host as its commencement speaker.

Subscribe To The BNM Rundown

The Top 8 News Media Stories of the Day, sent directly to your inbox every afternoon!

Invalid email address
We promise not to spam you. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Continue Reading
Advertisement

Advertisement
Advertisement

Upcoming Events

BNM Writers

Copyright © 2024 Barrett Media.