Al White Barbara Rogers

Al White and Barbara Rogers were hired as reporters. They quickly found their nitch in the local news media. Al eventually became well known as The Trouble Shooter and his walls were full of awards he had been given for his excellence in broadcasting news.  Barbara came to Rochester to work at Eastman Kodak in 1968 as a computer programmer. In 1972 she was hired by WOKR as the first female reporter at the station. She developed one of the first alternative news interview programs. In 1979 she left this market and went to San Francisco where she had a full life career as the top anchor at KPIX, CBS5.

Both Al and Barbara developed a public affairs half hour program called Black Dimensions, which we taped in the studio one night a week. Al collected news stories from the past week of interest to the black community and did a compressed newscast at the top of the show. They invited guests from the community to come to the studio to talk about current issues. My responsibility was to mic up guests.

This program morphed in the following years to become Shades of Gray with Wanda Miller and later Many Voices Many Visions with Charlotte Clarke. I enjoyed talking with the many guests over the years and I became friends with many of them.