Sendoff from Jim Miller
Jim Miller, WBRE's longtime sports anchorman, gives former co-worker Sid Michaels a sendoff in a letter to the editor in today's Times Leader...
Miller retired from WBRE in the late 1990s after nearly two decades in Wilkes-Barre.
It saddens me that one of the great links emotionally to sports in Northeastern Pennsylvania has to be silenced by the ever-changing bottom line of television, but for those who know and care about Sid, he has made all of us richer for his work and more importantly his personality and touch in the sports world over the years.
Miller retired from WBRE in the late 1990s after nearly two decades in Wilkes-Barre.
posted by Howard Beale at 9:58 PM
8 Comments:
Sid is truly a good man and just another victim of Deathstar 50.
A bit OT, but we once had three Jim Millers here at King's. Two were teachers (tv Jim, theater Brother Jim, student Jim). Their mail used to get mixed up pretty regularity.
Damn straight, Mr. Miller! You were no slouch yourself, ya know.
Best of luck, and continued success, to you, Sid, and all others who find themselves basking in the warm glow of life outside the dark, overcast day-to-day that is Nexstar.
A good man like Sid will succeed elsewhere. I can't say the same for his now-former employer and their tactics. People around here support the respectable on-air staff of all the stations. When they are treated unfairly, the public has a long memory. Good luck, Sid. We're all behind you to succeed at a much higher level than the place you left.
Sid Michaels is a great broadcaster, and NEPA is a little worse off because he won't be doing sports there.
Best of luck, Sid. You deserve it!
Jim Miller returned to WBRE in 2001 as a nightside assignment editor and fill-in sports anchor.
I just want to say...that was definitely classy Sid.
Best of luck!
You stay classy...Sid Michaels...
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