Lynn Cullen
Born
Ida Lynn Miller

(1948-01-18) January 18, 1948
Wisconsin
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
OccupationTalk show host
Spouse
William Lee Cullen
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(m. 1972; div. 1980)​
Career
ShowLive at Five (1978 – 1980)
Station(s)WISC-TV
ShowThe Pennsylvania Game (1986 – 1993, guest; 1993 – '94, host)
Station(s)WITF-TV
CountryUnited States

Lynn Cullen (born Ida Lynn Miller, January 18, 1948)[1][2] is an American liberal radio talk show host in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Career

Cullen hosts an internet radio talk show on the Pittsburgh City Paper's website on weekdays from 10 - 11 am.[3] She was also a regular panelist on WQED (TV)'s Friday evening program, 4802.[4] until leaving the show in 2015. Prior to this, Cullen was briefly on radio station WAMO-AM 860 weekdays from 5-7 p.m. EST.[5] As of May 15, 2009, WAMO and several sister stations are in the process of being sold, and Cullen and all other employees were abruptly laid off.[6] On July 7, 2009, it was announced that she will broadcast a one-hour Internet radio show on the Pittsburgh City Paper's website starting on August 18, 2009[7]

From 1999 until a format change in August 2008, Cullen was a radio talk show host on radio station WPTT AM 1360.[8]

Cullen's reporting for WTAE-TV from 1981 to 1992 garnered her numerous awards, including a 1991 Emmy award, four Golden Quills for Journalistic Excellence from the Pittsburgh Press Club, and three Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcaster Awards for feature reporting.[9]

Cullen hosted a radio talk show on WTAE Radio from 1987 to 1997 and was twice named "Best Talk Show Host" in Pittsburgh by the readers of both Pittsburgh Magazine and In Pittsburgh Newsweekly. Vectors Pittsburgh honored her as the 1997 Person of the Year in Communications, and the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition similarly honored her as its Person of the Year in 1998.[9]

Cullen also hosted two weekly public television programs: the statewide award-winning quiz show The Pennsylvania Game and the prime-time public affairs program Cullen-Devlin on WQEX-TV.[10][11]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette named Cullen one of Pittsburgh's fifty most influential cultural power brokers.[12] She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in American Media.

Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1981, Cullen was a television anchor and reporter at WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin.[12] She attended Green Bay East High School,[13] the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received her degree in journalism.[10]

Personal life

Cullen is the sister of author and University of Michigan Law School professor William Ian Miller.[14][15][16][17][1] She acquired her professional surname via marriage to William Lee Cullen on June 4, 1972.[13] By the time the couple divorced on November 10, 1980,[18] she was already well established as Lynn Cullen, news anchor and talk show host.[19]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jewish Rite to Honor Miss Ida Lynn Miller". Green Bay Press-Gazette. January 19, 1961. p. 11. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Lynn Cullen from Pittsburgh, PA". Nuwber. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Lynn Cullen Live 3/15/19". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "WQED Multimedia: TV: 4802". Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  5. ↑ Talk host Lynn Cullen returning to radio, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 4, 2009
  6. ↑ Questions remain about future of WAMO radio after its sale, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 19, 2008
  7. ↑ Lynn Cullen to stream on City Paper site, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 7, 2009
  8. ↑ Radio talk host Lynn Cullen out at WPTT, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 18, 2008
  9. 1 2 O'Connor, Bob; Cohen, Dan (May 12, 1998). "Resolution No. 274". Pittsburgh Municipal Record, 1998, Vol. B. City of Pittsburgh. p. 229. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  10. 1 2 Lawler, Sylvia (September 1, 1993). "Cullen brings new spirit to 'The Pennsylvania Game'". Indiana Gazette. p. 22. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  11. ↑ Vancheri, Barbara (February 14, 1995). "WPXI to Add Two-Hour Talk Show to cable Channel on Weeknights". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. D-1. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  12. 1 2 Moe, Doug (December 27, 2006). "Talk Show's 'Our Marine' Dies". The Capital Times. p. A2. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  13. 1 2 "Wedding Plans Told: Miller-Cullen". Green Bay Press-Gazette. April 13, 1972. p. 6. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  14. ↑ McCoy, Adrian (April 10, 1997). "The Buzz: Celebrity Sightings". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 10, 1997. p. D-5. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Miller Lecture Series Discusses Peace, Justice". Green Bay Press-Gazette. September 17, 2016. p. A3. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Obituaries and Funerals: Miller, Norman". Green Bay Press-Gazette. p. 14. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Bar Mitzah Rites for William Miller". Green Bay Press-Gazette. April 9, 1959. p. 8. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  18. ↑ "Wisconsin Divorce Index, 1965-1984," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK9K-BNQ : 4 December 2014), William Lee Cullen and Ida Lynn Miller, 10 Nov 1980; from "Wisconsin Divorce Index, 1965-1984," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing Dane, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Madison.
  19. ↑ "Lynn Cullen to Leave". Wisconsin State Journal. November 1, 1980. p. 23. Retrieved November 15, 1980.

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