After over 30 years on KDKA Radio, Chris Moore has announced his retirement from the airwaves.
Moore made the announcement during his show Sunday afternoon and said his last show will be February 15.
“Having our meaningful discussions about world and local issues, as well as more mundane issues with you has been one of the highlights of my career,” said Moore.
Chris says that is health and mobility issues, combined with the recent winter weather forced him to consider his future.
“The Moore of Pittsburgh” has been a local weekend staple since 1994 and Chris has provided countless hours of entertaining radio that made listeners smile, think and participate.
“That’s going to be it for the kid,” said Moore.
Chris won multiple Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards during his other career as a producer and host at WQED and was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Gold Circle Award last year for his over 50 years of “exemplary service.”
Some of Chris’ documentaries at WQED Multimedia include: Unity & Healing: The Tree Of Life Tragedy, The Good Fight, Pittsburgh and The Great Migration, Pittsburgh’s Soul Food, For Jeron, Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania Tuskegee Airmen, Jim Crow Pennsylvania, In Country: A Vietnam Story that was produced after his travels back to Vietnam in 2006 with soldiers with whom he served, Hip-Hop Pittsburgh, an hour-long documentary focusing on Hip-Hop Culture, Wylie Avenue Days, a show about Pittsburgh’s Historic Hill District, a show from his popular Black Horizons series, Barber Shop: PA Stylin’, Prescription RX for a Healthy Pittsburgh, Co-Producer and Narrator of The House, a one-hour documentary on Westinghouse High School, The Torch Bearers, a fight for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh and in Ohio Narrator on one of the series of It Takes A Whole Village. In April 2013 at the Art Rooney Dinner, he was awarded The Bill Burns Award for journalistic excellence in the community.
In 1972, Chris was first employed as a Camera Person for three years by KETS-TV in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. He has worked continuously in the field from KETC-TV in St. Louis, Missouri for five years as a Producer/Journalist, at KWMU-Radio as a street reporter, and as Producer/Host at WQED Pittsburgh since 1980. He worked for WPXI-TV for 10 years as a Television Host.
Chris is the founder and co-chairperson of the educational committee of the Frank Bolden Urban Journalism Workshop of the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation where a CHRIS MOORE INTERNSHIP was named in his honor in 2024.
Chris also received, with his wife Joyce, The August Wilson House Legacy Award in April 2024. He received the Key to the City of Pittsburgh from Mayor Ed Gainey last year.
Chris is a graduate of Grambling State University, Grambling Louisiana, where he was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 2006.
Chris is currently producing a documentary on Grambling State University World Famed Marching Band.
You have two more chances to hear Chris on KDKA Radio, this Sunday, February 8 and his final show, February 15.