Veteran New York Metropolis broadcast information anchor Invoice Jorgensen, remembered for his present’s nightly admonishment, “It’s 10 o’clock — have you learnt the place your youngsters are?” died on Wednesday at age 96.
Jorgensen was the founding anchor of the Ten O’Clock Information on WNEW, now Fox 5 New York, which he hosted for over 12 years. He was recruited from Cleveland’s KYW-TV in 1967 to fill the slot. He signed off nightly with “Thanking you in your time this time, till subsequent time.”
The “10 o’clock” message was learn on Jorgensen’s forged by the late Tom Gregory. It aired from the late Sixties by way of the Eighties.
Jorgensen’s daughter remembered him in a Fb submit.
“His ‘never-give-up’ spirit lasted till his finish of life, and I simply hope to have the ability to comply with his instance so long as doable,” his daughter, Rebekah Jorgensen, wrote in a Fb submit on Thursday. She didn’t give the reason for loss of life or location.
“I grew up realizing him, behind the scenes, as a person deeply dedicated to discovering the story that put individuals and their rights in peril, intent on discovering revolutionary methods of telling it,” she stated.
His daughter recalled his protection of environmental tales together with Cleveland air pollution, in addition to the story of Robert Manry, a duplicate editor from Ohio who sailed throughout the Atlantic Ocean in 1965 in a 13-foot sailboat.
He additionally reported on the well-known case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was accused after which acquitted of his pregnant spouse’s 1954 homicide.
Jorgensen moved from WNEW to WPIX-TV in 1979, the place he anchored nationwide and native segments. He later was one of many co-founders and first anchors of the Impartial Community Information, which was produced at WPIX.
The nightly broadcast was helmed by Jorgensen, Pat Harper, and Steve Bosh. He retired in 1987.
