DEATH OF ANN BISHOP - WPLG NEWS NOV 1997

[Ginger515]

WOW!!!  Thank you for posting this.... I adored Ann.

[ghwallimann]

This was my dear Aunt Harriet Himes. The family misses her and regrets that she withdrew from family for no apparent reason.

[altfactor]

A friend who grew up in South Florida onmce said that if Ann Bishop and Ralph Renick had co-anchored the same newscast, they would have gotten 99 44/100% of everyone watching TV in South Florida at 6 P.M.!

[jhshifris1]

@altfactor Everybody loved seeing Ann doing the news, right?

[fjones1914]

I grew up watching Ann Bishop and Dwight Lauderdale broadcast. RIP.

[mjcamck71]

While Ann Bishop was an intelligent & highly professional news anchor, my respect dropped during the disastrous Mariel Boat Lift. As violent Cuban criminals & mental hospital patients poured into South Florida, infuriating & SCARING the locals, Ann B. failed to offer ANY understanding of their views. Instead, she CHASTISED objectors with scolding statements such as "We are a Nation of Immigrants!" Later, many of those immigrants MURDERED innocent people. Still, RIP Ms. Bishop.

[Airman241]

never forget I think it might have been 94 or 95 when she was on Oprah when they introduced local anchor persons

[dkickdrum]

. I worked as a News Cameraman @ WPLG....

.I still remember a night when we were shooting a traffic accident , and car was coming right on my blind side... She grabbed me by my belt! And pulled me backwards out of the way.......

She put her own life on the line that day....

This wasn't something we put on the news... We just continued to report on the accident... Ann will always be one of the most courageous, people I've ever known.....

Harold Smiley Davis, WPLG former News Photog

[pjvalisnochannel]

death of ann bishop is from november 14 1997 just like charles kuralt in july 4 1997 after battle with lupus...

[pjvalisnochannel]

1:50 peter jennings remembers ann bishop saddly he pass away at age of 67 after battle of lung cancer in 2005...

[ricktelevision]

Thank you for posting this. I worked with Ann for many years & she was inspiration in my life. I learned of her death as I thought of her while flying to New Mexico. I had said to myself that I needed to call her when I returned to South Florida. That wasn't to be, upon landing in New Mexico I received a call that she had passed away. She was a dear friend for many years. After leaving WPLG we always kept in touch, but the news of her being ill was always private. Ann, you are missed.

[saturnday]

Thank you for posting this. I grew up in South Florida and moved away in 1994. On the day Ann Bishop died I got four different phone calls nearly at the same time from my sister and friends who reacted the same as the loss of a close relative.

I also had the great opportunity to meet Ann Bishop a couple times. When she came to my school and as an adult when she was simply shopping for groceries. She was a kind person who wasn't full of any "celebrity". She was the real deal and really great.

[Buswaylocal]

I remember this newscast. Ann Bishop passed away on Friday November 14, 1997. Channel 10 also aired a special tribute program at 7 O'clock that evening, I had it recorded on tape but I unfortunately have since misplaced the tape. The interview segments were recorded and aired during 1996 as part of a recurring special segment entitled "Ann Bishop Remembers". Rest In Peace, Ann.

[WREYNetwork]

I still have that special... Haven't gotten around to converting it to DVD yet, but I remember them doing it in a darkened studio with one light on over the empty anchor chair... one of the saddest local newscasts I can remember...