PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Bill Steinbach, a 36-year radio reporter who was host of KDKA-AM's afternoon news, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 63. During the spring Pittsburgh Marathon, he covered the race for KDKA from a perch on top of Pittsburgh Brewing, where Iron City beer is made. He was on the air for coverage of both Kennedy assassinations, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the 1993 Pittsburgh blizzard. Steinbach began at KDKA after graduating from Duquesne University in 1956, worked in the Washington, D.C., bureau for Group W stations during the late 1950s and returned to KDKA in 1960. He retired in 1993. He had four terms as president of the Pittsburgh Press Club and was a member of the national board of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He also wrote an auto racing column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and during the 1960s and 1970s was an announcer at southwestern Pennsylvania race tracks. Steinbach is survived by his wife, Mary Patricia Kelly; children Debora Steinbach, Mary Gingrich, Nancy Steinbach, Janet Garber and William Steinbach; and five grandchildren. Copyright ©1998 Observer Publishing Co.Last updated Wednesday, September 9, 1998Bill Steinbach
Veteran radio reporter dies at age 63
Funeral arrangements were incomplete for Steinbach, who had esophogeal and lung cancers.