Alex Crichton
Alex Crichton is host of All Things Considered on WXXI-AM 1370. Alex delivers local news, weather and traffic reports beginning at 4:00 p.m. each weekday.
He was born in Rochester, but “raised” in several other spots as part of an Army family. Those locations included Ft. Rucker, AL, Ft. Sam Houston, TX and Ft. Sill, OK. Alex returned to Rochester in 1969 and has been here ever since.
After graduating from Ashland College (now University) in 1981, Alex landed his first radio job at WGMC in Greece. He also worked at WRTK Talk Radio (1370 on the AM dial, coincidentally) stayed on when the format was changed to country, and even worked a couple of weeks as a full-time country disc jockey. Alex also worked at WBBF when it had a talk lineup as Toby Gold’s engineer for his show, for those who remember. Also during this same time period, Alex was the regular fill-in for a service called Rochester Radio Sports.
In 1984 Alex joined WXXI, going on the air with a news/jazz/public affairs format. Here at WXXI he has done sports, produced news and music programs, hosted a daily then a weekly jazz show, produced live remotes, worked on TV auctions, done interviews with all sorts of people from musicians to politicians, engineered talk shows, started doing newscasts for All Things Considered in the mid-90s, then moved to Morning Edition in 1997.
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The current state average for regular gasoline is $4.569 a gallon, up 20 cents from last week. In the Buffalo area, it’s $4.416 a gallon, up 12 cents from a week ago and the highest recorded average so far. -
Paul Zuber, the head of government affairs at the Business Council of New York State, says there are a number of laws, particularly those affecting liquor stores, that were the result of Prohibition-era fears, but he doesn’t think that liquor stores would suffer from making alcohol-to-go a permanent policy.
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Inflation and the war in Ukraine are on the minds of many people these days, and that combination is having an impact on the personal finances and way of life for many New Yorkers. That's according to a new survey from Siena College, which found 69% of those polled said they will buy less in general in response to price increases due to inflation.
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There will be an opportunity Thursday to learn more about six Black women who helped shape the nation as the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls…
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Tuesday was National Poll Worker Recruitment Day and good government organizations such as Common Cause New York are encouraging young people to sign up…
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New Yorkers should be proud of their hard work and discipline, which led to another day of record low numbers for COVID-19…
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Sixty-five percent of farmers in New York State say their business has been negatively or very negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. That’s…
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This weekend, a local organization dedicated to building strong children and ending systems of exploitation and oppression, announced the winners of a…
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Monday marked the 21st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that allowed people with disabilities the right to live in their community and not be…
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A coalition of people with family members in jail joined public health experts and others to release what they call a series of "COVID-19 Community…
