Pittsburgh won't be the same without her.
After 40 years with WTAE, anchor Sally Wiggin revealed Monday she's retiring.
Wiggin dropped the news during WTAE's lead in segment to the Pittsburgh Steelers game on Monday Night Football. Her 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. "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."
It's been a full career for Wiggin, who joined WTAE in 1980 from the anchor desk in Birmingham, Ala. Here's a look at her before she made the move to Pittsburgh.
In January 1981, she began to co-anchor WTAE's weekend news. In November 1986, Wiggin became the weekend anchor.
She was the 11 p.m. news anchor for 16 years, and the 6 p.m. anchor for 22 years.
Wiggin has earned a ton of 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.
Her Hall of Fame induction intro is a slick ode to a Pittsburgh's icon.
"Sally is and will always be a Pittsburgh Icon," WTAE President & General Manager Charles W. Wolfertz III tells tribLIVE. "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. We, and our viewers, have enjoyed and benefitted greatly from the remarkable career of Sally Wiggin."
"This has been a passion for me, in the perfect place. I welcome my upcoming projects in 2018, and then as Steelers legendary coach Chuck Noll said: 'I will get busy with my life's work,'" Wiggin said.
Wiggin sure has had some memorable moments.
In 1983, she kicked it on the Mon in the Three Rivers Regatta's Tube Race with Rod Daniels and Bill Hillgrove.
In 2007, she participated in the "Dancing with the Stars for Cystic Fibrosis" event at the Four Points Sheraton in Cranberry.
In 2008, radio jock Buckhead (of then B94's "Buckhead and Bubba" show) professed his love for our sweet Sally on the air in poetry form. (We all feel you, Buck!)
Fitting for this time of year, back in 2012, she struggled through a reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to the Kennywood crowd.
And, of course, you can't overlook the hair through the years.
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