DEATH OF ANN BISHOP - WPLG NEWS NOV 1997

This is the 11pm WPLG Eyewitness News that day legendary South Florida TV icon Ann Bishop passed away. Though Bishop left the anchor desk in 1995, she is still a legend, on par with Ralph Rennick IMO. She was nationally recognized and respected as seen in this broadcast. Sorry for the schmaltz, but I was a fan.

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[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

[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.

[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.

[jhshifris1]

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

[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.!

[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