Apr 10, 2021
Capital Region news and broadcast legend Ernie Tetrault has died.
Tetrault started at WRGB in 1951, and he became a fixture in the newsroom as the lead anchor in the 1970s. He interviewed Presidents and went to Vietnam to cover America s long war in that country.
He also went to Saudi Arabia to cover U.S. Forces engaged in the Persian Gulf War.
Back here, he did a highly regarded investigative series on the homeless in our area and Tetrault lived on the streets to more effectively cover the story.
He also did some reporting for WGY News when WGY and WRGB were in the same Balltown Road studios in Niskayuna.
Apr 10, 2021
Capital Region news and broadcast legend Ernie Tetrault has died.
Tetrault started at WRGB in 1951, and he became a fixture in the newsroom as the lead anchor in the 1970s. He interviewed Presidents and went to Vietnam to cover America s long war in that country.
He also went to Saudi Arabia to cover U.S. Forces engaged in the Persian Gulf War.
Back here, he did a highly regarded investigative series on the homeless in our area and Tetrault lived on the streets to more effectively cover the story.
He also did some reporting for WGY News when WGY and WRGB were in the same Balltown Road studios in Niskayuna.
Ernie Tetrault, courtesy of WRGB
A titan of Capital Region broadcasting has died. WRGB says Ernie Tetrault died at age 94 after an illness.
He was an anchor and reporter for the CBS affiliate for more than four decades. The station says Tetrault, who was born in Watervliet and grew up in Troy, began working in radio in high school, served in World War II, and started his television career in 1951.
In a video obituary, the station showed Tetrault reporting from the Capital Region, as well as war zones and political conventions.
Tetrault retired from the nightly newscast in 1993 after 42 years at WRGB.
Pioneering broadcaster Ernie Tetrault dies at age 94 | The Daily Gazette
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Ernie Tetrault, one of the founders of the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville, is pictured in this Gazette file photo.
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NISKAYUNA Early broadcasting pioneer Ernie Tetrault “the” anchorman at WRGB Channel 6 to many people who watched TV news in the Capital Region from the 1970s into the 1990s was recalled Friday as a friend, colleague and dedicated newsman.
Tetrault died Thursday night at a Schenectady nursing home. He was 94 and had been in declining health.
The CBS affiliate station, which is based on Balltown Road in Niskayuna, broke the news early Friday. Tetrault remains a legend there, and in the public mind, though it has been nearly 30 years since he regularly appeared on a newscast.