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The opening as it read in 2010
Steve Bartelstein is an American television news reporter .1He was most recently employed by WCBS as a weekend anchor alongside Mary Calvi , but perhaps is best known for the time he spent at WABC where he anchored the morning and noon newscasts with Lori Stokes . Prior to that, he was the weekend sports anchor for WABC. WCBS-TV announced on November 7, 2007 that it had hired Bartelstein as a weekend anchor. The station soon began airing promotional announcements featuring Bartelstein and making reference to an upcoming feature story about the anchor's battle with cancer. (In September 2007, Bartelstein told newspaper columnist Cindy Adams that he was battling testicular cancer .) On March 18, 2009, WCBS-TV announced that Bartelstein had stepped down from the station. He told the New York Daily News that he was unhappy and felt unappreciated with his job. Bartelstein had been fired from WABC-TV for persistent tardiness; It has even been reported by the NYDN and WABC sources that he has fallen asleep and missed the live news cut-ins during Good Morning America. Bartelstein began his broadcasting career as a weekend anchor at age 19 in Evansville, Indiana . He also worked in Durham, North Carolina , Providence, Rhode Island , Indianapolis , Charleston, South Carolina , and Portland, Oregon . Then he came to WABC-TV from CNN in Atlanta, Georgia . NY Daily News account of Bartelstein's firing Steve Bartelstein hired by WCBS2
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Steve Bartelstein is a former American television journalist .He was previously a news anchor in New York City , first at WABC-TV (1999–2007), a flagship station of the ABC television network, WCBS-TV (2007–2009), a flagship station of CBS and later in Chicago , Illinois at WBBM-TV (2010–2011), a television station owned and operated by the television network CBS .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Steve Bartelstein is a baseball umpire and former American television journalist . He was previously a news anchor in New York City , first at WABC-TV (1999–2007), a flagship station of the ABC television network, WCBS-TV (2007–2009), a flagship station of CBS and later in Chicago , Illinois at WBBM-TV (2010–2011), a television station owned and operated by the television network CBS .
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Steve Bartelstein is an American former television journalist . He was previously a news anchor in New York City , first at WABC-TV (1999–2007), a flagship station of the ABC television network, WCBS-TV (2007–2009), a flagship station of CBS and later in Chicago at WBBM-TV (2010–2011), a television station owned and operated by the television network CBS.
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American journalist Steve Bartelstein is an American former television journalist . He was previously a news anchor in New York City , first at WABC-TV (1999–2007), a flagship station of the ABC television network, WCBS-TV (2007–2009), a flagship station of CBS and later in Chicago at WBBM-TV (2010–2011), a television station owned and operated by the television network CBS.
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american television news reporter
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american former television journalist
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