In this week’s issue… WRGB’s Bishop to retire – CT “tower” coming down – Remembering Robin Marshall
By SCOTT FYBUSH
*When Liz Bishop started in upstate NEW YORK TV in 1973, she was a pioneer – a SUNY Albany student hired by WRGB (Channel 6) in Schenectady to be a weekend sportscaster, a rarity for any woman at the time, much less a college student.
Over the course of a 52-year career at the station, Bishop moved from sports to news, becoming the station’s lead evening anchor and, we believe, one of the longest-tenured female anchors in the country (not to mention the longest-tenured in the state after Don Alhart’s retirement here in Rochester last year!)
Now, she says, it’s time to retire, which she’ll do on May 30th.
“If you know me at all, you are well aware that I do not “do” change very well,” Bishop wrote on Facebook. “While the rest of the world moves from place to place and job to job in search of gratification and reward, I found all the fulfillment, and adventure, and excitement I could ever want for a lifetime in reporting for work every day at WRGB.”
“There are all kinds of forces that fight to keep us at the center of the vortex. It’s a lot harder to break out than it is to let it keep swirling around you,” she wrote.
Bishop, 72, is a 2016 inductee into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, a three-time Emmy winner and recipient of numerous Murrow awards. She tells viewers she’s not sure what comes next – “I promise to share my plans as we go along, confident that I will make some good ones because my top priority is to find a way to give back for all the kindness that has come my way over a lifetime” – and there’s also no word on who will replace her yet at WRGB, which will honor her with a farewell special on the 30th.
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