(The agreement would subsequently be amended to include four additional stations that New World acquired later that month from Argyle Television Holdings. Currently, she serves as Marketing and Communications Officer for the Department of Employee Relations in the City of Milwaukee. [37], On July 18, 2018, the FCC voted to have the SinclairTribune acquisition reviewed by an administrative law judge amid "serious concerns" about Sinclair's forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict properties; with the future of the deal still uncertain, 21st Century Fox reached a multi-year agreement with Tribune to renew the affiliations of WITI and five of the group's other Fox affiliates on August 6, 2018. I shouldn't have been surprised. From there, it was off on a six-year journey as a sports anchor and reporter. It was one of the few Storer stations which used a more modern and open design for its studio building, compared to Storer's traditional use of Georgian and Colonial facades on its other studio facilities. Harry got a kick out of that. Julie Banderas was born in 1974. [71] The station formerly served as Milwaukee's "Love Network" affiliate for the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. On July 23, 2009, after a series of tests of a new digital subchannel, WITI began carrying programming from the Retro Television Network on digital channel 6.2, featuring a customized schedule heavy on public domain programs as much of RTV's program rights were held locally by Weigel Broadcasting-owned MeTV on WBME-TV (channel 49, now WMLW-TV) at the time, which was then independently programmed before Me-TV's December 2010 national launch. When I was 9 or 10 years old I used to "broadcast" weather reports in our basement. [7] The final CBS program channel 6 aired before it switched to ABC was the original broadcast of the Gunsmoke episode "Little Girl", which ran the evening before the switch at 9:00p.m. Central Time. Jonathan Hardison anchors WBRC FOX6 News Live at Five, 5:30, 6 and 10 p.m. He's worked at television stations in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana, before joining the WBRC FOX6 News team in October 2007. The Marinette, Wisconsin native anchors the CBS 58 News at noon and 4:00 P.M. and is host of CBS 58 Sunday Morning. FOX6's Carl Deffenbaugh and photojournalist Eric Litsheim accompanied Stars and Stripes Honor Flight on its most recent flight, the last before Veterans Day. Josh Elliot was abruptly fired by CBS News on Monday and escorted out of the building by security. WITI-TV officially became a Fox affiliate on December 11, 1994, when the network's programming lineup moved to the station from WCGV; the first Fox network program to air on the station as a full-time affiliate was Fox NFL Sunday at 11:00a.m. Central Time that day, leading into that afternoon's NFL doubleheader: the 1994 Chicago BearsGreen Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field (which served as one of Fox's early regional games that day and saw the Packers win in a 403 blowout victory) and a mid-afternoon national game between the San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers. The respective owners of WCGV and WVTV at the timeABRY Communications and Gaylord Broadcasting (the latter of which had already reached deals to switch two fellow independents, KTVT in DallasFort Worth and KSTW in SeattleTacoma, to CBS)also turned the network's offers down. The station has entered into an agreement with Amazon to broadcast the November 17, 2022, Packers game against the Tennessee Titans on Prime Video in the Milwaukee market.[75]. Milwaukee Night . I went on to graduate school at UW-Madison and earned a Masters Degree in Meteorology and began wo. Starting on Wednesday, anchor Jessob Reisbeck will be the newest crew member on the "Fox 6 Wake Up" team on WITI-TV . In April 2017, she left her position reading headlines as a news anchor on Fox & Friends, the morning program the president watches religiously, to become spokesperson for the State Department. I took a circuitous route to Milwaukee. 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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 0. If you know of a cool event, a fun activity or a great story, Im all ears! Her nickname is Nic. February 13, 2017. Obama to launch leadership training in Chicago, 2 more cities. On Oct. 27, 1954, WISN-TV signed on for the first time. She lived in Madison for three months trying to sell the house while I lived here, working every day. Charter Communications began carrying the 6.2 subchannel on channel 967 (now 189) on August 11, followed by its addition to Time Warner Cable on digital channel 991 on October 13, 2009. But this year, for the first time, there is a picture to go with every single name on the Wall. Harry Volkman was at the awards ceremony and it was a full circle moment to have my picture taken with him. 51,630 talking about this. Published February 28, 2023 10:35PM. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: In May 2012, the station activated its second audio program feed three years before FCC requirements for network-provided audio description went into effect for the Milwaukee market, which was done for all Local TV stations at the master control level. ), On July 17, 1996, News Corporationwhich separated most of its entertainment holdings into 21st Century Fox in July 2013announced that it would acquire New World in an all-stock transaction worth $2.48 billion. Aug. 5 marks 10 years since a gunman opened fire on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. I just missed out on the film era (fortunately!). The digital transition resulted in the loss of ability to listen to WITI's audio feed over 87.7 FM; television stations broadcasting on VHF channel 6 were audible over this frequency during the analog television era, although this is no longer possible due to the transition, even for stations that broadcast their digital signals on channel 6. We even produce separate weathercasts for our website 4 to 5 times per day. Discovery library after being colorized by then-rights holder Republic Pictures in the late 1980s) as of 2023. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after. A few months before, the station's 20 year-old weather deck received a full-scale overhaul and redesign in a sponsored arrangement with both a deck-building company and a landscaper which handles the station's landscaping services. Its bridging the gap between generations -- with lessons in technology. The station carries all Fox programming available with Descriptive Video Service audio, along with Spanish-language audio broadcasts of Fox Sports telecasts. [86] WITI is one of the few stations that had broadcast on VHF channel 6 prior to the digital transition to restore its audio feed legally; WRGB in Albany, New York attempted an audio subcarrier service after the transition that was subsequently pulled at the FCC's request. [66][67] Occasionally as time permits, TV-6.2 may air the station's 9:00p.m. newscast whenever it is unable to run it on the station's main channel in the event of sports overruns or extended movie broadcasts aired by Fox as well as to simulcast the station's severe weather coverage, including closings and weather warning graphics. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Generally, Real Milwaukee led or placed a strong second in the ratings to all other programs in the 9:00a.m. time period. 1. former WITI-TV (Channel 6) news anchor and. MILWAUKEE, WI -- A longtime TV news anchor is leaving the airwaves after 21 years for a career change. It maintained a news schedule similar to its latter days as a CBS affiliate. ADVERTISEMENT. First Fox Television Stations ownership period, Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 06:26, 1994-1996 United States broadcast TV realignment, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, "Whitefish Bay Ch. Two longtime . It . Despite Tribune's purchase of the station, it never carried This TV; Tribune had assumed Weigel Broadcasting's operational responsibilities for that network on November 1, 2013 (the network was carried on WYTU-LD2 from January until September 2018 after several years on WMLW-DT3, before WIWN agreed to carry the network for their fifth subchannel in November 2018 and its sale to Entertainment Studios in 2020). WITI (channel 6) is a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, airing programming from the Fox network. Fox Television Stations announced before its debut that its stations would carry the streaming service Fox Weather as a subchannel in their local markets at the start of 2022, with WITI doing so on its fourth subchannel in February 2022.[80]. According to a Milwaukee Business Journal report this week, longtime anchor and. When I first began, I worked seven days a week, appearing on the weather segments on TV6 News at Noon and a new show called Live at Five during the week, and the TV6. In 1961, WITI lost the NTA network due to its closure, and CBS decided to affiliate with WISN-TV (channel 12), as its sister radio station had been a longtime affiliate of the CBS Radio Network. At that time, WITI moved from its original studio facility in Mequon to WXIX's former studios on North 27th Street in Milwaukee (which were later used by WCGV-TV from 1980 to 1994). The station also preempted the Late Show with David Letterman in favor of airing M*A*S*H reruns from the former's August 1993 debut until the December 1994 switch to Fox, continuing a long-time practice of substituting local and syndicated programming for CBS's late night offerings, including the Late Movie and Crimetime After Primetime (though it did carry The Pat Sajak Show, albeit delayed); WCGV carried the Late Show instead, under arrangement by CBS, until it moved to WDJT upon the switch. In its run as an ABC affiliate, it carried coverage of the Milwaukee Bucks winning the 1971 NBA Finals, the teams only championship until 2021. On December 5, 2009, WITI became the second station in Milwaukee (behind WTMJ-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. Elliot, who has been a CBS daytime anchor for about a year, had first shocked . By Matt Mueller Culture Editor Published Mar 10, 2020 at 12:36 PM. Subsequently, in April 1998, WITI simplified its branding to "Fox 6", (Coinciding with this, the station introduced the "Milwaukee's Newscenter" set that would remain in use until 2011, along with a "Weather Deck" located outside of Brown Deer Road studio facility that was used as an outdoor setting for forecast segments. Although WCGV had become a formidable competitor to rival independent WVTV, Fox found the prospect to having its programming carried on a VHF station too much to resist, considering that WITI had a relatively stronger market position despite its then-third place placing behind WTMJ-TV and WISN-TV in total day and news viewership, though its news department has been long-respected and well-awarded. As an owned-and-operated station or affiliate of Fox, which obtained the partial (now exclusive) over-the-air network television rights to the league in 1996, WITI has carried certain Brewers games that have been regionally televised (and, since 2013, select national telecasts scheduled during prime time) by the network during the league's regular season and postseason. My dad taped a large map of the United States onto a metal sheet. Although it sounds like a cliche, this has very much been a dream job for me. Nicole Koglin, a shorthaired woman with a love of animals almost as great as her love of the Packers, is a renowned TV anchor and reporter. Marty Burns-Wolfe Years active in Milwaukee: 1985-1996 On the surface, Jerry Taff and Marty Burns-Wolfe seemed like the perfect TV news team: Taff was older and measured; Burns-Wolfe was. Would you want to? [78] The new Studio A was partially introduced on February 11, 2013, with modifications to the secondary set continuing for a couple of weeks after. The station also carries Builder's Showcase, which is also carried on Madison Fox affiliate WMSN and Green Bay/Fox Cities NBC affiliate WGBA, and a longtime fixture of the station produced since July 2000 by the station's advertising department where homebuilding services are offered. Management turnover is typically much greater. Notably, channel 6 is the only commercial television station in the Milwaukee market never to have held the local broadcast rights to the Milwaukee Brewers. It's a special show and promises to be the most. By Mohammad Samra. Good thing we were young! In February 2010, WITI expanded its weekday morning newscast a half-hour early to 4:30a.m., extending the program to 4 hours. Former Milwaukee News Anchors Dies Suspended | Anchor Fired Death Nicole Koglin Fox 6 Salary, Married Husband, Age (Wikipedia Biography) by Marathi.TV Editorial Team Feb 10, 2023 2 Comments Introduction : Nicole Koglin, a shorthaired woman with a love of animals almost as great as her love of the Packers, is a renowned TV Read More By Matt. [83] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 6. By Jim Piwowarczyk & Jessica McBride. This allowed me to stick the symbols on the map and move them around the country as I explained the weather to our imaginary viewers. In 2018 and 2019, to tie into high-profile Packer games ending in prime time Sunday nights, the station delayed The Simpsons to air in late night to carry extended local postgame coverage. He also autographed a weather book my mother gave me as a youngster. The 9 a.m. WakeUp extension was eventually made permanent a few months later. The purchase of WITI would have given Sinclair control of the three Fox affiliates in Wisconsin's largest markets (Sinclair already owns WMSN-TV in Madison and WLUK-TV in Green Bay). I would love to hear from you so if you have a story idea or would just like to say hi, please do! Will climate-conscious viewers take it seriously? Here are 10 such ridiculous moments, culled from both the "hard" and the not-so-"hard" broadcasts of Milwaukee's TV news past. )[22][23] The last CBS network program to air on WITI was a first-run episode of Walker, Texas Ranger at 9:00p.m. Central Time on December 10; this led into a message by then-station president and general manager Andrew Potos shortly before the start of that evening's edition of TV-6 News at 10:00, informing viewers about the pending network changes. 6 grant made effective by FCC", "A Brief History of Milwaukee Television (the Analog Years)", "SCI Television Has Trouble with Loan Payment", "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Perelman Agrees to Acquire Control of SCI Television", "SCI Television and New World Entertainment. For fans of Fox 6 news, you may have noticed something this week. Marc Lamont Hill. In October 1956, the station affiliated with the NTA Film Network, which provided the station with 52 films from the 20th Century Fox library and syndicated programs. It also carried the team's Thursday Night Football games involving the Packers from NFL Network locally early on in that package's life before it began simulcasts on CBS (2014 and 2015), along with NBC starting in 2016, before returning to Fox exclusively in the 2018 season until the end of the 2021 season. Ted Perry, the longtime anchor of the evening news on Fox6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was ousted after joking on his personal Facebook page that "2020 takes Alex Trebek but leaves Mitch. A Saukville World War II soldier is being honored half a world away. Here are some that elected not to air the opening ceremony, and what they showed instead.", "No "Osbournes Reloaded" on Milwaukee TV", OnMedia: Baseball or not, you can watch the news, OnMedia: Jerry and his kids return to Channel 6 after a long absence, "Radio's Brian Kramp resurfaces on WITI-TV's new 'Studio A', "Don't worry, (some of) you will be able to watch the Packers on your regular TV channels for 'Thursday Night Football' in November", "Fox 6 to 'suspend' two weekend newscasts, bring back 'Ask Gus', Back to Weekend Morning News for Channel 6, "TV stations cashing in on elections, but ready for season to end", "Fox News gets into the weather business. After receiving her journalism degree in 1972, she served two years there as a news and sports reporter before shifting to WITI-TV in Milwaukee, where she served 5 years as a news reporter. On March 28, 2009, the station suspended its morning and early evening newscasts on weekends during the Great Recession; the weekend morning newscasts were briefly replaced by reruns of Ask Gus on April 4 (Gnorski was forced by his physicians to retire, ending WITI's plans to revive Ask Gus, with the program ending its 15-year run on November 24, 2007).[76]. That is unusual in a 30 year period at a local TV station. In addition, Gus Gnorski's Saturday morning DIY program Ask Gus, was put on hiatus, with Gnorski's segments integrated into the Saturday morning newscast; the program's former studio began serving as the new studio for Wake-Up in May 2008. Fired Fox News anchor files defamation lawsuit against network, CEO over misconduct allegations by Dominick Mastrangelo - 07/01/21 7:51 AM ET Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry is suing the. Almost everyone in my family works in the medical field in some shape or form. The trend started in July 2020 . The station's original call letters were WTVW. In its first period as a Fox-owned station, WITI's syndicated programming inventory largely came from 20th Television and it has served as a test station for many of the distribution unit's series, a role it has resumed with Fox First Run; 20th Television was absorbed into Disney-ABC Domestic Television in 2020. Amy DuPont, a reporter with Fox 6 television in Milwaukee, has spoken out for the first time about a physical attack she suffered at the hands of Wauwatosa demonstrators, one of whom was armed. Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee girl was arrested for shooting a boy on the city's south side Wednesday, March 1. A different kind of class is in session this fall at Kewaskum High School. My dad is a doctor. I enrolled in Penn States College of Communications, joined the Universitys student-run television station, started my own TV show called The U (which is still produced to this day) and got myself some good internships including at WCAU-NBC10 in Philadelphia in the investigative unit and Entertainment Tonight/The Insider in New York City. CHICAGO - Former President Barack Obama . WITI shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. (Cleveland sister station WJW used a very similar branding technique at that same period, branding itself as "ei8ht is News" and "Fox is ei8ht", playing off the on-air branding that the station used as a CBS affiliate during the 1960s and 1970s. Virtually out of desperation, on December 6, CBS reached a ten-year agreement with Weigel Broadcasting to affiliate with WDJT, despite the mediocre quality of its broadcast signal and the absence of a news department. On November 22, 2017, FCC documentation was released confirming that WITI would begin to share their channel bandwidth with independent religious station WVCY-TV (channel 30) on January 8, 2018. MILWAUKEE (AP) - Television anchorman Vince Gibbens, praised by co-workers for his cool handling of newsroom emergencies, died of an apparent heart attack Wednesday at the age of . Ted Perry has been with FOX6 News since 1993 and anchors evening newscasts. October 9, 2020. -. FOX6's Stephanie Grady sat down one-on-one with District Attorney John Chisholm to talk about the status of Milwaukee from his perspective as a prosecutor. [16] WITI-TV was among the stations involved in the Fox agreement, which also initially included four of New World's other existing CBS-affiliated stations WJBK-TV, WJW-TV, WTVT and WAGA-TV and four additional stations CBS affiliate KSAZ-TV in Phoenix, ABC affiliates WBRC-TV in Birmingham and WGHP in GreensboroWinston-SalemHigh Point, North Carolina, and NBC affiliate WDAF-TV in Kansas City that were part of New World's concurrent $360-million acquisition of Great American Communications's television properties. Some other syndicated programs seen on WITI include Judge Judy, TMZ on TV/TMZ Live and Extra among others, along with Access Hollywood, the latter three forming a late night entertainment news block. Storer purchased KCST the following year, but ABC was not happy with being forced to surrender an affiliation with VHF station in favor of a UHF outlet. With interests in the arts, athletics the great outdoors and food definitely food let me know what I should check out around town. We now have two kiddos Jack and Harper and a furrier one, Rileigh (Portuguese Water Dog) . In 1978, WITI moved its operations to a new facility located on North Green Bay Road in Brown Deer, just outside Milwaukee; the upstart WCGV-TV (channel 24), which would eventually air programming from CBS that WITI refused, purchased WITI's former studios and used them from 1980 until 1994. A former state lawmaker who once served as Wisconsin's tourism secretary has been sentenced to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to failing to pay nearly $200,000 in employment taxes.. That support began when we decided to accept the job offer at Channel 6. Keep in mind that I was bitten by the weather bug at an early age. Seven people died because of that day, but many more likely would have if it wasnt for one Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy. I've covered the Packers and Brewers in the playoffs, performed on stage with Milwaukee's wonderful arts organizations, flown with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, made a fool of myself on live TV and eaten all manner of food (even bugs) while most viewers are still sitting down to their breakfast. While at least one station offered a separate broadcast on 87.7,[85] WITI opted to restore the audio feed via an HD Radio subchannel of WMIL-FM (106.1) in August 2009 through an agreement to provide news and weather content for WMIL owner Clear Channel Communications's Milwaukee radio cluster (a forecast-only content agreement between WITI and Entercom's three local stations and occasional check-ins during WakeUp News on WXSS and WSSP's morning shows continues without any audible forecasts from channel 6's weather staff). 10. Owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, WITI maintains studios on North Green Bay Road in Brown Deer (though with a Milwaukee postal address), and its transmitter is located on East Capitol Drive (just north of WIS 190) in Shorewood. Among the NTA programs aired by WITI were The Passerby, Man Without a Gun and This is Alice. All of its existing newscasts were retained. As a CBS affiliate, WITI aired M*A*S*H starting with the 1977 CBS/ABC affiliation switch, in both its original CBS run and in syndication. In the fall of 1995, WITI dropped its longtime branding as "TV-6" and began branding itself as "Six is News", in order to emphasize the station's newly expanded news schedule. 1 morning newscast. That demo tape was an unintentional resume tape, too.I have often said that a large part of my success is due to my wife's support and advice through the years. Studio A was again redesigned in the summer of 2019, with updated technology and design tying into a new graphics package (debuted by former sister station WDAF-TV in Kansas City) introduced in October 2019, and by coincidence Arnold's new "Beyond" package mainly utilized by the Fox-owned stations since 2018. From September 9, 2013, to July 11, 2016, WITI aired a weekday afternoon talk show, Studio A, which aired at 4:00p.m. and was hosted by anchors Ted Perry and former news anchor Katrina Cravy, who left to launch a consulting firm, and former WLUM-FM (102.1) morning host Brian Kramp, the program focused mainly on community issues and events in Milwaukee, and provided breaking news coverage if needed. On September 7, 2010, WITI debuted a local talk show, titled Real Milwaukee, which aired after the station's morning newscast at 9:00a.m.; it was produced by WITI's news department, and focused on current events and community issues. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush sat down with FOX6's Stephanie Grady Thursday, in town to speak with college students. FOX6's Stephanie Grady sat down with Milwaukee mayoral candidate Bob Donovan for an interview ahead of the April 5 election. From Blue Ridge Cable-11 (deep in the heart of Pennsylvanias Amish country), I then immersed myself in the ACC with the great team at WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia (with a healthy dose of NASCAR on the side). Since there wasn't The Weather Channel to watch continuously, like some weather fans do now, I would check out weather books from the library, and my parents would buy me weather books for my birthday and Christmas. The problem is I hate needles. FOX6's Stephanie Grady sat down with Milwaukees Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson for an interview ahead of the April 5 election where he faces former Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan. [68][69] It also occasionally carries the 9 p.m. newscast in rare cases where Fox requires national coverage of a breaking news story. Here's to a few more years at Channel 6. I grew up a competitive figure skater so I was used to performing since the age of six. The subchannel also aired coverage of the December 2010 funeral of Chicago Cubs legend Ron Santo from WGN-TV; it previously aired a same-day encore of Real Milwaukee at 8:00p.m. weeknights. I am thrilled to be one of the anchors for FOX6 WakeUp, Milwaukee's No. We Energies workers save people daily, but they never imagined they would save a woman from a 75-foot embankment on Saturday, Jan. 14. On December 3, 2018, Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group announced it would acquire Tribune's assets for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. I would make colorful weather symbols such as clouds and the sun (just like Harry Volkman used on TV) and attach magnets to the back of them. Michelle Obama's brother, Craig Robinson, and his wife are suing University School of Milwaukee and discussed it with FOX6 News' Stephanie Grady. Eventually, OLTL, Bandstand, and ABC News were later cleared by WITI until the switch to CBS. In addition, the station produces the Fox 6 Blitz, a Green Bay Packers wrap-up program that airs Sundays during the NFL season at 10:35p.m. and also serves as a post-game show following Milwaukee Brewers Fox broadcasts. Former FOX 6 anchor Nicole Koglin lands new job at CBS 58 Local media fans didn't have to miss Nicole Koglin long as she's found her new gig after leaving FOX 6 last year. I got promoted to morning anchor and after about a year took a job at WSAZ Newschannel 3 in Huntington, WV. WITI resumed the Saturday and Sunday morning newscasts (which now aired from 7:00 to 9:00a.m. on both days) after a two-year absence on April 2, 2011. The network concluded it was better to have its programming on a VHF station, even if it was only an affiliate. In addition to expanding its local news programming at the time it joined Fox, the station replaced CBS daytime and late night programs that migrated to WDJT with an expanded slate of syndicated talk shows as well as some off-network sitcoms, game shows and documentary-based reality series, and also acquired some syndicated film packages and first-run and off-network syndicated drama series for broadcast in weekend afternoon timeslots on weeks when Fox did not provide sports programming; most notably it still holds the rights to a package of colorized RKO Pictures films (now a part of the Warner Bros. From there, I took the morning anchor job at News10 ABC and FOX23 (WTEN/WXXA) in Albany, NY allowing me to get closer to my now husband, Joe. The purchase by News Corporation was finalized on January 22, 1997, folding New World's ten Fox affiliates into the former's Fox Television Stations subsidiary and making all twelve stations affected by the 1994 agreement owned-and-operated stations of the network. Previously, Angelica worked for WITI-TV Fox 6 News based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. I have been fortunate to work in a stable environment. (In addition, channel 6 continues to share news footage and other resources with Fox's Chicago O&O WFLD through the Fox NewsEdge affiliate service.) Prominent Milwaukee news anchor Ted Perry has been suspended by the Fox-owned station WITI-TV, sources told the New York Post, following a Facebook post in which the weeknight host seemed to suggest that he wished Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had died over the weekend rather than beloved "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek. 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