// Do not change anything below this line He started with sports reporting, even covering the inaugural year of the United States Football League when the Michigan Panthers won the leagues first championship. Franklin, the first Black man to anchor a primetime news broadcast in Birmingham, signed off from CBS 42 for the last time on Friday. Franklin said telling those stories contextual, meaningful stories about the community he loves is something hell continue to do in Birmingham, even if its not at CBS 42. I will listen to Gods voice.. He replaces former Chief Patrick Russell Jones is thrilled to be back in his hometown of Birmingham. He's worked at television stations in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana, before joining the WBRC FOX6 News team in October 2007. Since first coming to Birmingham over 30 years ago, Franklin has known every mayor. Caresse Jackman is a national consumer investigative reporter with a focus on exposing scams and digging into consumer concerns. Please see our Privacy Policy. Quotation[0] = "'Mr. In a December interview with The Birmingham Times, Franklin said impact is what keeps him going, whether on television or with his clothing line. My pastor said that sometimes you climb the ladder of success only to find your ladder is leaning against the wrong building. We wish him great success in all of his endeavors. Is Today My Birthday Yet? I have time, he said. Richard Arrington appointed him to the Birmingham Youth Commission. Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" Before long, he made the move to TV news, working at WILX in Lansing, Michigan, where he was the first Black man to anchor a regular news broadcast in the city. Surprised is not the word I would use. His son, Byron York, said his dad died Sunday morning, August 1, 2021. She began her broadcast career here in 1990 as a reporter at CBS 42, where she worked for three years. Thats the Google street view, but if you could just pull out and see the Google Earth view of your life and see that youre going to make it, you would calm down at that detour, Eunice says. Tracking the Tropics. He wasnt familiar with the South, and the regions reputation was less than ideal. Moving into production, Art hoped, would give him the ability to use those skills and also avoid the misery that physics had caused him. We will miss working with him, and being with him every day, but we look forward to his future accomplishments., Art Franklins service to our community as a journalist, and as a leader, is inspirational to anyone who knows him, and we at CBS 42 have had the privilege to have worked with him over the past few years, said James Cromwell, Vice President and General Manager of WIAT CBS 42.
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