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There was hardly a role in the WNEW news department that Andy Fisher did not play. Because of his experience as a cub reporter for The Knickerbocker News, Albany's evening newspaper, he was hired as a copy boy in December 1962, when the station intensified its news coverage during what was to become a long newspaper strike. He kept that job until his graduation from Columbia in 1965, adding the duties of political researcher during the 1964 presidential campaign.
After military service and a year at WNEW's Philadelphia sister stations, WIP and WMMR, Andy returned to WNEW as news writer and night editor. In 1974, he moved through the role of reporter to become overnight newscaster and was named morning newscaster on WNEW-FM when the FM station established its own news department in 1979.
 | | Andy at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul |
In 1981, NBC News hired him as a correspondent, and he worked as anchor, reporter, documentary producer, religion correspondent and sportscaster until 1989. He anchored coverage of the 1988 Olympics in Calgary and Seoul, and was awarded the gold medal of the International Radio Festival, New York. After spending a semester as a member of the adjunct faculty at Columbia's graduate school of journalism, he became the principal news writer of the Today show.
In 1999, he moved to CNBC as a business news writer and ended his career in 2009 as writer of the highly successful stock blog on CNBC.com, concluding a journey that began in a newspaper city room and included college radio, local radio, network radio, network television, cable television, and the Internet. In 2008 he was part of the CNBC.com news team that won a "Webby" award from the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Until her death of cancer in 2006, he was married for 37 years to Sharon, a versatile and talented musician, internationally acclaimed for her harp-and-voice interpretations of traditional Irish music. She even worked as weekend desk assistant at WNEW News during the summer of 1972.
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