Bay News 9’s first GM talks 25th anniversary

When Bay News 9 hit the airwaves in 1997, those inside and outside its original building in Pinellas Park had no idea it would remain a Tampa Bay staple 25 years later.

Elliot Wiser was among that group. He was the first general manager - the first employee, for that matter - of Tampa Bay's first 24-hours news station. Wiser said he oversaw the construction of the building, designed the programming and hired the initial workforce and on-air talent.

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Lauded bay area dance photographer Tom Kramer dies

St. Petersburg’s arts community lost one of its most vocal – and creative - supporters Thursday when photographer Tom Kramer died at 87.

Kramer and his wife, dancer and choreographer Paula Kramer, came to the bay area in 2001, following 40 years in Detroit. She was a founder of Detroit Dance Collective; he always said that he’d been an amateur photographer who got “recruited” to shoot dance pictures, “and then I got good at it.”