Dave Debo
Senior Multimedia Reporter & HostDave Debo's journalism career runs the gamut from public radio to commercial radio, from digital projects to newspapers. With over 30 years of experience, he's produced national television news programs and has worked as both a daily and weekly print journalist and web editor.
An award-winning former president of the Greater Buffalo International Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, he's been an assignment editor at two of Buffalo’s three TV stations, and has worked as a newspaper reporter for Buffalo Business First and The Ithaca Journal.
Radio is his first love, having started at WBEN as a reporting intern under former WBFO News Director Brian Meyer in the late 80s, before moving on to two stints at WEBR, the public-all news station that evolved into WNED-AM and merged into WBFO in 2012. He's worked in Buffalo for WBEN, and was the longest serving host of their acclaimed weekend politics news program "Hardline" for over 9 years.
During the 1990's he hosted WEBR's popular Weekend At Your Service program, and after that was a weekend edition host on WBFO. He's also worked n Niagara Falls at WJJL, and was news director at WTKO/WQNY in Ithaca NY.
In Washington DC on 9/11, he was the producer of First Business, a nationally syndicated morning business newscast seen on over 175 television stations. When the Iraq war broke out he was working as a producer and story coordinator in Fox News Channel's Washington DC bureau, and was simultaneously employed as a producer and newscaster at NPR's flagship station WAMU and as a web producer at WUSA-TV. He’s also been an early morning news producer at WGRZ TV
He lives in East Aurora , has dabbled in community theatre there and is an ordained wedding officiant.
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Hear Endorsed Democrat India Walton, and write in challengers Mayor Byron Brown and Ben Carlisle in their debate at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute
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A county by county list of where to go to cast your ballot before election day
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A little over one year after they worked with the city of Buffalo to remove an often defaced statue of Christopher Columbus, the Federation of Italian-American Societies of WNY have fresh designs for a replacement statue honoring immigrant families.
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WBFO’s Mike Desmond worked for the Buffalo Courier Express newspaper at the time of the Attica Prison uprising and was one of the first to uncover a coverup by government officials. He talked about it with WBFO’s Dave Debo.
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The new president of the WNY Area Labor Federation, an umbrella organization of five regional labor councils representing approximately 130, 000 members , talks of past and current struggles.
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Endorsed candidates fall in primary elections.
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Catholic Health in Buffalo is distributing the J&J vaccine despite concerns that it is derived from aborted cells. Some U.S. faith leaders have expressed…
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The KeyBank Center downtown will host a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic for people over 65 years of age next week, becoming the third large-scale…
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COVID restrictions are being loosened to allow bars and restaurants in New York to remain open an extra hour starting this weekend.Beginning Sunday, bars…
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo provided a COVID-19 status update Wednesday, saying the highest infection rate in the state is here in the Western New York Region.…