WSMV Anchor Dan Miller Dead
Posted on April 9, 2009 at 8:08 amFrom the station:
Longtime WSMV-TV anchor Dan Miller died Wednesday night of a heart attack at the age of 64 in his hometown of Augusta, Ga.
Miller was in Augusta to watch practice rounds of the Masters Golf Tournament with fellow friends and longtime co-workers Terry Bulger and Rudy Kalis.
From Ken Whitehouse:
In addition to his work as anchor, Miller also hosted a Sunday night talk show on WSMV during the 70’s and 80’s called Miller & Company, a show that was eventually picked up by the national cable channel TNN. The show featured Miller at his best, sitting in a restaurant booth casually speaking to guests in his own friendly but engaging style. Perhaps the best remembered episode of that show was one Miller was barely on.
It was during the Christmas holiday season in the early 80’s and Miller said on-air that many families in Nashville didn’t have the opportunity to gather around a yule log and talk to each other. Maybe they lived in apartment buildings or homes without a fireplace he said, so his gift that year to the city was a broadcast of logs burning in a fireplace for the entirety of the show.
NashvillePost.com, The Nashville City Paper, and the entire SouthComm family of publications extends its deepest sympathies to Miller’s family, colleagues and friends at WSMV-News Channel 4, and all those who knew him well.
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3 Responses to “WSMV Anchor Dan Miller Dead”
So sad to read this news. What a terrific anchor and journalist. Condolences to his family, friends and co-workers.
Saw Neil Orne announce this before 8:00 this morning and it was obvious he was trying to hold it together. Big hit for that community. God bless ‘em all.
One of the funniest things I can remember was getting Reba McEntire in a laughing fit over her favorite thing to cook in a 1982 “Miller & Company” interview which McEntire replied “Mountain oysters” (Cattle testicles). Miller tried to find out what they were and Reba could not stop laughing.
Whenever I visited relatives near the Nashville area, I always looked forward to watchin The Scene at Six and The Scene at Ten with Dan and the crew. He will be missed in Nashville.