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| Ruth Weisberg (1956-2026) |
Weisberg, formerly of Philadelphia, spent nearly 50 years as a media personality in Pennsylvania and Florida. She was the radio voice of Shadow Traffic in the late 1970s and early 1980s, then anchored news and reported features at WXTU, WCAU, WIFI, WPEN, and WSNI in the mid-1980s. From the late 1980s until recently, she hosted radio, television, and online talk shows.
In 1988 and 1989 she hosted Frank Talk With Frank Rizzo on WCAU radio. Working with the former Philadelphia mayor, she told The Inquirer in 1989, was like flying a “careening aircraft for three hours.” She later hosted Storytime and Show ’n Tell with Miss Ruth on local cable television and online in 2015, and Funny You Should Ask, a Florida radio show and podcast about comedy, in 2023.
She also worked as a voice-over artist for Bell Telephone and other clients, taught voice-over, and performed as a writer, speaker, pianist, art model, actor, volunteer, and stand-up comedian. She was Miss Greater Philadelphia 1980.
She graduated from Northeast High School and Pennsylvania State University, where she studied special education and began producing radio and television programs. As a senior exchange student in England, she cohosted a local rock-and-roll radio show. “All of the sudden,” she told The Inquirer in 1989, “I had this new-found love of radio. I never pursued it. It just came calling.”
In 1988 and 1989 she hosted Frank Talk With Frank Rizzo on WCAU radio. Working with the former Philadelphia mayor, she told The Inquirer in 1989, was like flying a “careening aircraft for three hours.” She later hosted Storytime and Show ’n Tell with Miss Ruth on local cable television and online in 2015, and Funny You Should Ask, a Florida radio show and podcast about comedy, in 2023.
She also worked as a voice-over artist for Bell Telephone and other clients, taught voice-over, and performed as a writer, speaker, pianist, art model, actor, volunteer, and stand-up comedian. She was Miss Greater Philadelphia 1980.
She graduated from Northeast High School and Pennsylvania State University, where she studied special education and began producing radio and television programs. As a senior exchange student in England, she cohosted a local rock-and-roll radio show. “All of the sudden,” she told The Inquirer in 1989, “I had this new-found love of radio. I never pursued it. It just came calling.”