The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

Tony Hanson has spent his entire illustrious 37 year career at KYW Newsradio, covering breaking news including the World Trade Center attacks, the 1985 Move siege, the air crash death of U.S. Senator John Heinz, the Republican National Convention and related protests in 2000, as well as every aspect of the judicial system. And he has earned many awards along the way.

Hanson won a Sigma Delta Chi national award for his coverage of the Move event. He’s won numerous awards from the
Philadelphia Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the New Jersey Bar Association for his reports on topics such as prison overcrowding, the death penalty, and child abuse.

In 1983, Tony received the prestigious William A. Schnader Memorial Award. He’s also received a Freedoms Foundation certificate of excellence, a UPI statewide first place award for sports coverage of Villanova University, and the New York Grand Award at the 1982 International Radio Festival with Larry Litwin for “Schools Strike Out.”

Hanson joined KYW as a desk assistant after graduating with a degree in communications from Temple University. He was soon promoted to writer correlator, and shortly thereafter to reporter. Tony is a graduate of West Catholic High School in Philadelphia. He and his wife Martha have two daughters.

The e-mail address of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia is pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com