Fred Walters, Westinghouse And KYW/Philadelphia Radio Newsman, Passes Away

FRED WALTERS, the former longtime KYW-A/PHILADELPHIA and WESTINGHOUSE News Director, died FRIDAY (2/1).  He was 91.

According to the BROADCAST PIONEERS OF PHILADELPHIA, WALTERS' career began in his senior year at the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA when he joined the ASSOCIATED PRESS as a reporter, where he worked for 11 years and spent a year as then-Senate candidate (later Governor) MILTON SHAPP's Press Secretary before moving into broadcasting in 1964 at WIP-A/PHILADELPHIA.  A year later, he joined KYW as Editor and was there when WESTINGHOUSE flipped the format to all-News; he became WESTINGHOUSE HARRISBURG Bureau Chief in 1966, then moved back to KYW as News Director in 1969 and Executive Editor in 1970.  WALTERS later worked at WESTINGHOUSE sister News WINS-A/NEW YORK, as National Political Correspondent for the WESTINGHOUSE stations, as News Director at ABC News-Talk WXYZ-A/DETROIT, and as Executive Editor at WESTINGHOUSE News KFWB-A/LOS ANGELES before leaving radio in 1985 to become a consultant, then in various capacities with PENNSYLVANIA state government and as an adjunct professor and advisor at LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE.

A celebration of WALTERS' life is planned for SATURDAY (2/9) at 2p (ET) at ZIMMERMAN-AUER FUNERAL HOME in HARRISBURG, following visitation 1-2p.  Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to ST. JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

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