Pat Barry who was a Cincinnati DJ and weather anchor for WLWT and WXIX passed away from COVID-19 on Saturday. He was 69 at the time. He worked in various places of TV and radio stations area for forty years.
How Pat Barry started his Career
Pat Barry started working at the age of 16 in broadcasting. It was at WIZE-AM radio in Springfield in the year 1968. At that time, he was helping out a DJ at WIZE. In an interview, he said he was supposed to be a band director and was to go to Ohio State University. But he somehow got into radio and worked all over Ohio, Indiana, and also in Florida. In 1974, he arrived at Cincinnati to work at WSAI-AM but left in 1978 to work in Hamilton at WOKV. Pat Barry was also a famous DJ for Q-102 in 1976.
After that, he switched his profession to weather broadcaster at WLWT News 5. He used to be a host for a daytime talk show for WLW live. He also worked at WKEF/WRGT in Dayton and WXIX.
WXIX-TV is also known as Fox 19 employed Pat Barry in 1995. He was the first weather host for ’19 in the Morning’ news which was established in 1996. In 1999, he left Fox 19 but he came occasionally to work as a weekend weather anchor. He worked like that for 15 years.
Pat Barry as described by his colleagues that he used to give advice to youngsters who are pursuing in broadcasting career And most of the people admired him.
Comments from his Colleagues when they heard the news
- One of Pat Barry’s friends Cranley who is a mayor said,
“Pat Barry succeeded in multiple careers; primarily, I think because he loved Cincinnati so much and that love endeared him to our people.”
- Luken who was a former mayor and who also used to work in media said,
Barry was a fountain of information about Cincinnati. He further included saying he had an infectious laugh.
Only the formal arrangements for the funeral will be done for Pat Barry because of the COVID-19 protocols. They further stated donations will be done to the Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund and the Society of St.Vincent de Paul in honor of him.
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