Ron Weiner, a Daytime Emmy-winning director for Donahue who additionally labored at WGN Chicago for 25 years, has died. He was 93.
He died on March 18, his household introduced. His reason behind dying was not instantly out there.
Born in 1930 in Chicago, Weiner was the primary in his household to attend school. He accomplished a two-year undergraduate program on the College of Illinois at Navy Pier earlier than enrolling at Columbia Faculty, the place he earned a bachelor’s diploma in speech.
After attending the Navy’s Officer Candidate College and spending three years at Naval Station Argentia as a communications officer, Weiner started his profession in tv in 1956 with Chicago Tribune-owned WGN-TV. Beginning as a prop man, he ultimately labored his method as much as workers director by 1960, directing a number of totally different WGN applications.
Then in 1974, when Phil Donahue moved his discuss present to WGN, Weiner was assigned to direct Donahue. His work scored him three Daytime Emmys for excellent particular person route for a chat or service present/selection program (He was nominated for seven Emmys complete).
Following Donahue, Weiner labored on different discuss exhibits and pilots for Tribune Broadcasting, together with Be a No-Restrict Particular person with Wayne Dyer, The World of Anne Frank and An Night with B.B. King. He additionally did some industrial voice-overs for tv and radio.
Weiner taught lessons in tv route at Columbia Faculty for a number of many years, and was lively within the arts group, serving on the boards of the Shakespeare Venture of Chicago, the North Shore Chamber Orchestra Society and the Chicago coordinating committee of the Administrators Guild of America. He was additionally named a Chicago/Midwest Silver Circle Award honoree by the Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts and Sciences in 2003.
Weiner’s spouse of 53 years, Phyllis Weiner, died in 2008. He’s survived by his 4 kids, Deborah, Lauren (Diana Schaub), Vicki (Joseph Koelbel) and Howard; and two grandchildren, Griffin and Jameer.