{"id":125068,"date":"2026-02-27T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125068\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:48:26","slug":"looking-back-on-michelle-wrights-sitdowns-with-oprah-crosby-and-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125068\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on Michelle Wright\u2019s sitdowns with Oprah, Crosby and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big interviews: Looking back on Michelle Wright\u2019s sitdowns with Oprah, Crosby and more<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Wright conducted several big interviews during her decades with Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHERE\u2019S PITTSBURGH\u2019S ACTION NEWS FOUR ANCHOR MIKE CLARK WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING THE BIG INTERVIEWS. MICHELLE WRIGHT IS AMONG THE BEST. AND IN 1997, THERE WERE FEW BIGGER INTERVIEWS THAN MR. TELEVISION HIMSELF. UNCLE MILTY. MILTON BERLE. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING YOUR FAMOUS CIGARS? MY FAMOUS CIGARS? WELL, LET\u2019S SAY THIS. IT\u2019S A GOOD QUESTION TO ASK IF MILTON BERLE WAS THE KING OF TV. MICHELLE ALSO INTERVIEWED THE QUEEN OF DAYTIME TV, OPRAH WINFREY, ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. AND THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS COMING. THAT\u2019S THE THAT\u2019S THE FASCINATING THING ABOUT IT. THAT\u2019S THE FASCINATING THING ABOUT IT. IT DOESN\u2019T COME IN ONE TIME. THAT\u2019S WHY, IF YOU ASK ME WHAT, I\u2019M A WOMAN IN PROCESS. BUT MICHELLE\u2019S INTERVIEWING SKILLS WEREN\u2019T LIMITED TO TV INSIDERS AND CELEBRITIES. IN AUGUST OF 2024, SHE WAS THE FIRST REPORTER TO INTERVIEW HELEN COMPARATOR, THE WIDOW OF COREY COMPARATOR, THE LOCAL FIRE CHIEF KILLED DURING AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP IN BUTLER COUNTY. YOU HAVE SAID THAT COREY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN THAT DAY. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT. COREY DIED A HERO. I MEAN, HE HE THERE WAS NOTHING IN VAIN ABOUT ANY OF IT. HE WAS JUST THE BEST GUY. HE HE WAS JUST THE BEST. AND. YEAH, I MEAN, HE TOOK A BULLET FOR. THAT WAS MEANT FOR. POSSIBLY THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. MICHELLE ALSO HAD A KNACK WITH INTERVIEWING PROMINENT PITTSBURGH SPORTS FIGURES, SUCH AS PENGUINS STAR SIDNEY CROSBY, BACK WHEN HE WAS JUST 19 YEARS OLD. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU\u2019LL DO AFTER HOCKEY? I DON\u2019T KNOW. YOU\u2019RE 19, SO YOU PROBABLY DON\u2019T EVEN HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT. I DON\u2019T KNOW. YOU NEVER KNOW. I MEAN, WHAT WOULD YOU. I DON\u2019T KNOW IF I WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW? YEAH. WE WANT YOU TO FOCUS AS LONG AS I CAN AND SEE WHERE THAT GOES. BUT MAYBE SOMETHING IN HOCKEY AND LEGENDARY LOCAL WRESTLER KURT ANGLE FOR AN EPISODE OF FOR THE RECORD THAT MICHELLE HOSTED LAST YEAR, DURING WHICH ANGLE RECALLED WINNING THE GOLD IN THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS IN ATLANTA. YOU WON THE GOLD. DID YOU FEEL THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH AND ALL OF OUR SUPPORT WE WERE SENDING ALONG TO YOU? YES, I DID, YES I DID, AS A MATTER OF FACT, RIGHT AFTER I WON. FIRST THING I SAID IS, I LOVE YOU, PITTSBURGH.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The big interviews: Looking back on Michelle Wright\u2019s sitdowns with Oprah, Crosby and more<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Wright conducted several big interviews during her decades with Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769019068_844_wtae.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WTAE logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:50 AM EST Feb 27, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>During her decades with Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4, anchor Michelle Wright conducted several big interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Among them were sit-downs with TV greats such as Oprah Winfrey and the late Milton Berle.<\/p>\n<p>She also got a lengthy interview with Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby when he was just 19 years old.<\/p>\n<p>And, as a frequent host of WTAE\u2019s 4 The Record, she conducted several memorable interviews, including with local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/kurt-angle-wrestling-career-pittsburgh\/65009453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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&hellip;\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-125068","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\/125068","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=125068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125068\/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=125068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}