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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania · Outdoors

KDKA-TV studios

Someone Is Still Reading the Papers at KDKA

Exterior of the KDKA-TV Gateway Center studios with Channel 2 signage.

History & local legend

KDKA-TV's ghost tradition identifies Julian Drob, the station's former director of production facilities, as an employee still attending to unfinished work. Broadcasting reported his death in May 1963.

The story collected by the Pennsylvania Researchers Organization describes lights switching on and off and, more distinctively, pages turning by themselves as if someone were reading. People associated that apparent interest in the paperwork with Drob and his responsibilities at the Pittsburgh station.

Sources

  1. Pennsylvania Researchers Organization, KDKA-TV Station, facilities director and turning pages
  2. NewscastStudio, interviewing KDKA, history of the Gateway Center station
  3. CBS Pittsburgh, studio at Gateway Center
  4. Broadcasting, May 20, 1963, page 82, Julian Drob death notice
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Visiting

Operating broadcast facilities on Fort Duquesne Boulevard.

Image credit

Jgera5 via Wikimedia Commons · License