Obituaries
Longtime Pittsburgh Radio & TV Newsman Dies
A decades-long veteran of the Pittsburgh broadcasting community has died. Get the details here.
PITTSBURGH, PA — PJ Maloney, a fixture during two stints at former all-news radio station KQV-AM and a local TV reporter and weather forecaster, died Saturday.
Maloney, 77, of Shadyside, died of complications from leukemia.
When listeners tuned in to KQV during its all-news existence from 1975 to 2018, they likely would hear Maloney delivering the latest stories.
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Maloney also was familiar to Pittsburgh TV viewers, serving as a reporter and weatherman at WPXI-TV during the 1980s.
According to his Facebook profile, Maloney studied journalism at Marquette University and went to high school at St. Meinrad.
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According to local broadcasting website PBRTV, Maloney also was an announcer at WQEX-TV and worked as an editor for a local regional newspaper chain. He also was an avid biycylist and Pittsburgh Pirates fan.
PBRTV interviewed Maloney on a 2019 podcast.
Funeral arrangements were unavailable Monday morning.
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