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Old 11-26-2012, 06:13 AM
 
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People still listen to AM radio?
City-Data's Pittsburgh forum does. Apparently.
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Old 11-26-2012, 06:49 AM
 
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I think thats they guy I listen to in the morning. But whoever is on 1020, he has a lot of common sense.
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Old 11-26-2012, 06:51 AM
 
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Mr. Sebak has a new documentary, "Twenty-Five Things I Like About Pittsburgh," which airs on Thursday, November 29th at 8:00 PM on WQED.
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Old 11-26-2012, 08:05 AM
 
Location: Western PA
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Rick Sebak is the Voice of Pittsburgh. In addition to his new documentary on WQED Thursday, they're airing a documentary on WQED tonight at 7:30 called "What Makes Rick Tick?" Should be interesting - kind of a behind-the-scenes look at what he does.
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Old 11-26-2012, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Umbrosa Regio
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"Ricky" Sebak played a gentle self-parody in the film short "Letter Die: A Gamut Sibling Mystery", which was shown with a bunch of other shorts during the Three Rivers Film Festival recently. It was a lot of fun.

I think his documentaries, including the older ones, make for a great intro to Pittsburgh for newcomers.
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Old 11-26-2012, 09:59 AM
 
Location: somewhere near Pittsburgh, PA
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I think his documentaries, including the older ones, make for a great intro to Pittsburgh for newcomers.
Yes they do. To a transplant such as myself, Rick Sebak is the voice of Pittsburgh. I never heard of Larry Richert.
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Old 11-26-2012, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I'd be willing to bet that more have heard of Richert. I'm not a fan, but when you have a 50K watt station, chances are you would hear Richert more than the few times a month Sebak is on WQED.

And I've never heard of Sebak being called The Voice of Pgh, either.
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Old 11-26-2012, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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I've never heard of Richert but I know who Sebak is. I've never watched WQED except for the kids shows and never listened to WQED on the radio.
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Old 11-26-2012, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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I've never heard of Larry Richert, either.

I did stumble across a a digital cable channel that seems to be All Sebak, All the Time. I like trying to guess the date of the program by hair and cars. You have to wonder how many of the people he profiled 20 years ago are dead, or the businesses closed, etc.
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Old 11-26-2012, 10:14 AM
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Myron Cope was the old voice of Pittsburgh.
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