When you think back to Cleveland TV in the mid 1980s, the name Doreen Gentzler quickly comes to mind. Although, Doreen was only here at WKYC for 4 years, she had a big impact on local viewers and certainly deserves a place in our monthly Hall of Fame feature we call "Where Are They Now?"Doreen became the 6 & 11 PM co-anchor on "Channel 3 News" and had four male co-anchors in four years who she fondly remembers: Judd Hambrick, Leon Bibb, Dale Solly and Bob McBride. Through it all, she developed nice memories with each and got to cover some great stories about missing children and the John Demjanjuk trial in Israel. But soon, she moved on.
After leaving WKYC-TV in late 1987, Doreen went to work at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, which was a CBS owned and operated station at that time (today, it's an NBC station). In 1989, she moved back to her hometown of Washington D.C. and WRC-TVToday, Doreen anchors the 6 & 11 PM news on NBC 4 (see anchor desk picture) and has been working with the same co-anchor, Jim Vance, for more than 18 years. Their chemistry has helped WRC reign as a ratings leader the entire time.
When not anchoring news, Doreen is busy covering health and medical news. This is an area she tells the Director's Cut Blog she really enjoys reporting on. She has brought viewers into hospital operating rooms, profiled medical breakthroughs, and has shown the latest technology helping to save lives. Her reporting has taken her to Bosnia, Ecuador and the Persian Gulf, where she reported live from the USNS Comfort - a navy hospital ship tending to U.S. troops during the war.Doreen is married to a Plain Dealer reporter named Bill Miller and they have two children: a 16 year old son and 13 year old daughter and currently reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
She says "I hardly recognize Cleveland TV anymore ... so much has changed! I guess that's true everywhere and I'm just getting old!"
Ah, but age is just a frame of mind...and so we hop aboard the Director's Cut Video Time Machine and take a look at Doreen in action over the years.
You can email Doreen at: doreen.gentzler@nbcuni.com
Here are some videos of Doreen. If you can't see them on this page, CLICK HERE
Photos are Courtesy of WRC-TV/NBC 4
