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Ron Bruno worked in TV his entire life.

I used to work at a CBS affiliate right here in our hometown at Pittsburgh.

After that he started his own production company shooting TV shows and commercials.

And I looked around one day and I had almost as much equipment as they had at the TV station

that I worked for.

Which was when Ron decided he might as well start running his own TV station.

He partnered with a woman named Debbie Goodworth and built 11 stations.

And hence we became Bruno Goodworth Network.

WBGN.

Ron Bruno was the president.

He prided himself on broadcasting local events.

Oh my gosh, we did everything under the sun.

I mean football, basketball, crates, news, the immune name that we were doing.

I showed reruns of Cagney and Lacey in a show called US Bounty Hunters.

On Saturday nights there was a horror movie show called It's Alive.

The local commercials were incredible.

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