Former Buffalo Traffic Reporter Jack Sharpe Dies

Condolences to family and friends of longtime BUFFALO radio personality and pioneering helicopter traffic reporter JACK SHARPE, who died this week at 80. SHARPE started in radio in 1952 as night news editor at WEBR-A/BUFFALO, becoming the second helicopter traffic reporter in the nation in 1959, a position he held through 1974. He also served as a Supervisor for the Town of AMHERST, NY in 1975-1990 before his retirement and was inducted into the BUFFALO BROADCASTERS HALL OF FAME in 1999.

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