{"id":125042,"date":"2026-02-27T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:12:16","slug":"looking-back-on-michelle-wrights-sitdowns-with-oprah-crosby-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125042\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on Michelle Wright\u2019s sitdowns with Oprah, Crosby and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The big interviews: Looking back on Michelle Wright\u2019s sitdowns with Oprah, Crosby and more<\/p>\n

Michelle Wright conducted several big interviews during her decades with Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDuring her decades with Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4, anchor Michelle Wright conducted several big interviews.Among them were sit-downs with TV greats such as Oprah Winfrey and the late Milton Berle.She also got a lengthy interview with Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby when he was just 19 years old.And, as a frequent host of WTAE\u2019s 4 The Record, she conducted several memorable interviews, including with local wrestling legend Kurt Angle.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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During her decades with Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4, anchor Michelle Wright conducted several big interviews.<\/p>\n

Among them were sit-downs with TV greats such as Oprah Winfrey and the late Milton Berle.<\/p>\n

She also got a lengthy interview with Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby when he was just 19 years old.<\/p>\n

And, as a frequent host of WTAE\u2019s 4 The Record, she conducted several memorable interviews, including with local wrestling legend Kurt Angle<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big interviews: Looking back on Michelle Wright\u2019s sitdowns with Oprah, Crosby and more Michelle Wright conducted several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11614,900,58539,12485,26604,58543,58545,58544,32920,58538,73,75,74,58542,58540,58541,10254,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-125042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-4-the-record","9":"tag-action-news","10":"tag-big-interview","11":"tag-crosby","12":"tag-decade","13":"tag-frequent-host","14":"tag-late-milton-berle","15":"tag-lengthy-interview","16":"tag-michelle-wright","17":"tag-oprah","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","20":"tag-pittsburgh-news","21":"tag-sit-down","22":"tag-sitdown","23":"tag-tv-great","24":"tag-wtae","25":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}