Friends and family are mourning the death of longtime Pittsburgh media personality PJ Maloney.
Maloney Saturday died morning following an ongoing battle with cancer and having suffered a recent seizure.
Maloney worked at WIIC (now WPXI) as a weatherman and former station WQEX as a host.
Retired KDKA Reporter Joe DeStio worked with Maloney at WNUF in Millvale, and for several years at all news 1410 KQV in the 1980s.
“I always admired him because he was never afraid, in anyway, to ask a hard question,” said DeStio.
Maloney worked at KQV from when the station switched to all news in 1975 until 2017 when the station went off-air.
He attended the former Holy Innocents Catholic School in Sheraden and St. Meinrad Seminary in high school, with intentions of becoming a priest.
After he decided the priesthood wasn’t for him, he went to Marquette to study journalism and was drafted in to the Vietnam War.
He was also an avid Pittsburgh sports fan, especially the Pirates and Penguins.
Maloney’s son wrote a beautiful obituary that you can read that here.
In lieu of flowers, the Maloney family is asking for donations to be made to the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, where he was a board member.
There will be no visitation, but a celebration of life is planned for a future date.
Maloney was 77.