Forty-seven years ago, I secured my first reporter job in Scranton, Pennsylvania. My task at WNEP-TV was to be a consumer advocate and find stories that would help regular folks.
The station was family owned and didn t have much money, so I had to work a lot of overtime in order to afford room and board. Therefore, I filled in doing the weather (absolute disaster) and wrote gag lines for the Saturday night monster movie program Uncle Ted s Ghoul School.
Uncle Ted: His legacy lives on at 100
The late host of Uncle Ted s Ghoul School on WNEP is remembered by his daughter on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Author: Chelsea Strub Updated: 6:19 PM EDT May 14, 2021
TRUCKSVILLE, Pa. For you, May 14, 2021, might be just another Friday on the calendar, but for Beth Bessmer, it s a special day to remember her father. It would have been his 100th birthday, and as my father would say, were he still alive, I would have been 101, but I was sick a year. That was his humor, said Beth.
Beth s father was Edwin Ted Raub, known to many in northeastern and central Pennsylvania as Uncle Ted.