Gabe Pressman on WNBC in 2005.

Gabe Pressman (born February 14, 1924) is the senior correspondent for WNBC-TV. Pressman has been a journalist in the New York City area for over 60 years. He is considered one of the pioneers of United States television news. Pressman currently hosts Gabe Pressman's News Forum, which airs on Sunday mornings at 6:30 AM and does mainly political commentary. Image File history File links Gabe Pressman of WNBC-TV in 2005. ... Image File history File links Gabe Pressman of WNBC-TV in 2005. ... WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... Television news in the United States has evolved over many years. ...

After serving in World War II, Pressman worked for various New York City newspapers before becoming a reporter in 1954 for what then was NBC's radio station WNBC, and moved over to television in 1956. Since 1945, Pressman has covered the lives of ten New York City mayors, nine New York State governors, and 12 United States Presidents. Each of those politicians and other world leaders have said "Well, Gabe" at least once in response to Pressman's pointed questioning. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... WFAN (660 kHz), often referred to as Sportsradio 66 or The FAN, is a radio station in New York City. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... For a list of the Dutch Director-Generals who governed New Amsterdam (as New York City was called when it was a Dutch-run settlement) between 1624 and 1664, see: Director-General of New Netherland. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... A governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. ... The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States. ...

Pressman was also the co-anchor (with Bill Ryan) of New York's first early-evening half-hour newscast, the "Pressman-Ryan Report", borne out of a devastating 1963 New York City-area newspaper strike. Bill Ryan (right, with Frank McGee) on November 22, 1963 Bill Ryan (full name William Emmett Ryan II) (April 4, 1926 – February 18, 1997) was an American broadcast journalist with the NBC television network and its owned and operated local station WNBC-TV in New York for 26 years. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

During the opening of the New York World's Fair in 1964, he reported live on television that a number of young men with long hair wearing denim jeans were protesting the Vietnam War and fighting with police on some escalators. During his report, he became the first person on television to use the word "hippie". There have been two Worlds fairs in New York City: 1939 New York Worlds Fair ( 1939- 1940) at Flushing Meadows in Queens gave us Futurama, the Trylon, and Perisphere. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Singer at a modern Hippie movement in Russia Hippie or Hippy refers to a subgroup of the 1960s and early 1970s counterculture that found its earliest beginnings in the United States, becoming an established social group by 1965 before declining during the mid-1970s. ...

Pressman covered the New York region for NBC News, WNBC-TV and WNBC-AM radio. He was sent by the network to report on many historic events, including the 1956 sinking of the Andrea Doria, Elvis Presley's Army stint which went through Brooklyn, one-on-one interviews with Marilyn Monroe, Harry S Truman and Fidel Castro, the 1964 arrival of the Beatles at Kennedy Airport, the murder of Malcolm X, chasing after newly inaugurated New York mayor John Vliet Lindsay in the streets during a 1966 transit strike, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he reported on the clashes between demonstrators and police, and the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinations. NBC News plug 2002-Today. ... WNBC, channel four, is the flagship station of the NBC television network. ... WFAN (660 kHz), often referred to as Sportsradio 66 or The FAN, is a radio station in New York City. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrea Doria may be: Andrea Doria (1466-1560), Italian (Genoese) admiral Ships: Andrea Doria (1951-1956), passenger ship SS Andrea Doria Andrea Doria (1913-1956), Italian battleship Andrea Doria Andrea Doria (1964-1980s), Italian cruiser Andrea Doria (C553) Andrea Doria class battleship (1910s-1950s), ship design Andrea Doria class cruiser... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. ... For the victim of Mt. ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... John F. Kennedy International Airport is the main international airport in New York City, and is one of the largest airports in the world. ... Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, also known as Detroit Red and Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 in New York City) was a Muslim Minister and National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam. ... John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician who served as a Congressman (1959-1965) and mayor of New York City (1966-1973). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Featured at the Democratic National Convention are speeches by prominent party figures. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works. Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. ... assassin, see Assassin (disambiguation) Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald in a very public manner. ...

Pressman was a reporter for NBC News at the Woodstock music festival in upstate New York in 1969. He is seen in the motion picture Woodstock (film) that came out of the festival. NBC News plug 2002-Today. ... Woodstock may refer to: Woodstock Music and Art Festival, a 1969 U.S. rock festival which inspired a 1970 Warner Bros. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Woodstock is the name of the 1970 documentary film about the Woodstock rock festival, directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited by Martin Scorsese. ...

Pressman spent the bulk of his broadcast career with NBC, except for a period 1972 -- 1979, when he reported for what was then the Metromedia station WNEW-TV (now WNYW). 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was a conglomeration of radio and television stations in the United States that existed from the demise of the DuMont Television Network in the 1950s until the formation of the Fox Network in the 1980s. ... WNYW, channel 5, is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. ...

In Pressman's later WNBC-TV years, he was sent to Israel quite often to cover Middle Eastern crises and conflicts, and often dealt with Israeli, Palestinian and other Mideast politicians and diplomats back in his home base of New York. It was always joked amongst New York television insiders that Gabe had covered Middle Eastern politics since the time of Moses -- Robert Moses -- but on a serious note Pressman's reporting on Israel pre-dated the state's official 1947 existence. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... NY redirects here. ... Moses with the Tablets, 1659, by Rembrandt This article is about the Biblical figure. ... Robert Moses with a model of his proposed Battery Bridge Robert Moses (December 18, 1888–July 29, 1981) was the master builder of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and other suburbs. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ...

Gabe Pressman worked with producer Inara De Leon for over 12 years, until the long-time NBC producer's contract was bought out in December 2006.

Every Christmas, Pressman re-tells the story of the famed New York Sun column Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus set to drawings by graphic artist Roy Ruan. Gabe's interpretation of the classic tale has been featured every Christmas for over 30 years. The modern New York Sun is a daily newspaper published in New York City. ... Francis Pharcellus Church, writer of the famous editorial. ... Christmas is an annual holiday that marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. ...

A reporter billed as "Gabe Pressman" was played by actor J.D. Cullum in Billy Crystal's HBO film 61*, reporting unfavorably on the baseball exploits of Roger Maris (played by Barry Pepper). Billy Crystal (born Israel William Krisstalsterne on March 14, 1947 in Long Beach, New York) is a Jewish American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ... 61* is a United States baseball movie, made for HBO, directed by Billy Crystal and written by Hank Steinberg. ... Roger Maris signs a baseball for President John F. Kennedy Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for breaking Babe Ruths 34-year-old single-season home run record in 1961 on the last... Barry Robert Pepper (born April 4, 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born actor. ...

Pressman is a proud son of the Bronx, and has been known to root for the local baseball club, the New York Yankees. He attended public schools there and was graduated from Morris High School. Pressman is a graduate of New York University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is a past president of the New York Press Club, and as head of that organization fought like a bulldog for the rights of New York's journalists, both print and electronic, especially during what was viewed by some as the anti-press administrations of New York mayors Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. Housing projects in the infamous South Bronx area. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 32, 37, 44, 49 Name New York Yankees (1913–present) New York Highlanders (1903-1912) Baltimore Orioles (1901-1902) (Also referred to as... Morris High School, or MHS, is a public four-year high school located in Morris, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of the most prestigious schools of journalism in the United States. ... The New York Press Club is a professional organization of and for working journalists and media professionals. ... Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, KBE (born May 28, 1944) served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994 through December 31, 2001. ... Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is a prominent American businessman, the founder of Bloomberg L.P., and the current Mayor of New York City. ...

Pressman's many awards for his work include eight Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a Peabody Award. He won many of those awards for his intense coverage of the plight of New York City's homeless population. An Emmy Award. ... The Edward R. Murrow awards are presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in recognition of what the Association terms outstanding achievements in electronic journalism. ... The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. ... A homeless man pushes a cart down the street. ...

Pressman lives with his wife and son in the New York area. He has three children from a previous marriage.

He is now working on his memoirs.

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