Legendary Buffalo Broadcaster Tom Jolls Passes Away at 89.
Tom Jolls, the affable weatherman on the legendary WKBW-TV (Channel 7) anchor team alongside news anchor Irv Weinstein and sports director Rick Azar that dominated local news for decades, died Wednesday in Buffalo Hospice in Cheektowaga. He was 89. Jolls was the last of the legendary trio to retire and the only one who stayed in Western New York after exiting television, even after he briefly lived in Florida.