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Here are 12 things you didn't know about the longtime morning news anchor hired in 1983 as Nick Clooney's Channel 12 newscast rose to No. 1 in local news ratings.
Courtesy Bina Roy
Update 9 a.m. Tuesday Feb. 23: Jerry Springer called from his Sarasota home to talk about his old pal Pat Barry, and told me how and why Pat left radio to become WLWT-TV s main weatherman in 1984. It was Springer s idea.
Springer says he suggested to general manager Tony Kiernan that they hire Barry in an attempt to replicate the success of Willard Scott, NBC s hugely popular
Today show weatherman who was not a meteorologist.
Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie Pat Barry was a big name on local radio, on Q102. Instead of hiring a meteorologist, I told Tony, Why not spice up our newscasts with this big, funny, boisterous personality? He could be our Willard Scott.