After a 40-year career with WTAE, Sally Wiggin announced Monday during a prime time lead in for the Steelers on Monday Night Football she was retiring.
Wiggin's retirement will take effect in November 2018.
“My decision to retire next year is something I've been planning for quite some time now,” Wiggin said in a prepared statement. “Serving southwestern Pennsylvanians as a news anchor, Black & Gold Primetime co-host, and in my current role as Chronicle host has always been both a joy and an honor. I have worked with the best and have served the best community any journalist could ask for.”
Wiggin joined WTAE in 1980, and in January 1981 became co-anchor of the weekend news, a position she held until November 1986, when she was named anchor on the weeknight newscasts. She anchored the 11 p.m. news for 16 years and the 6 p.m. news for 22 years. During her legendary career Wiggin has earned numerous awards including a George Foster Peabody Award, regional Edward R. Murrow Award, a National Headliner Award, and the Board of Governors Award for the Mid-Atlantic Emmys, and she was inducted into the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
“Sally is and will always be a Pittsburgh Icon. Pittsburghers remember her as a trusted news anchor, a born story teller, but her real legacy is the countless lives she's impacted with her unmatched commitment to community service,” said WTAE President & General Manager Charles W. Wolfertz III. “We, and our viewers, have enjoyed and benefitted greatly from the remarkable career of Sally Wiggin.”
