Doug Adair Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Obituary, Death, Mona, and Net Worth

Doug Adair Biography

Doug Adair is an American television news anchor and journalist who has worked in the Cleveland, Colombus, and Dayton Ohio markets. 

His works in the news television industry have garnered him a number of awards and honors as well as prominence. He started off his career in the early 1950s in Dayton, Ohio.

Doug Adair Age

Adair was born on 29 May 1929, in the county seat of Greene County called Xenia in Ohio, United States. Therefore, he would have been 90 years of age as of 2019.

Doug Adair Family

There is no provided information concerning Doug’s parents, siblings or family in general. However, this information is currently under review and will be updated soon.

Doug Adair Wife

Adair was married three times. His first marriage produced three children, and his marriage to former colleague Mona Scott gave him two stepchildren. His third wife, Jean, is a former Roman Catholic nun, and they resided for many years in the Dublin, Ohio area. Adair was involved in harness racing and owned horses.

Doug Adair Death

Doug died in Pleasanton, California in 2019 at the age of 89. Family members tell the Columbus Dispatch that Adair died Monday in Pleasanton, California, because of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Citing this, he is survived by his third wife Jean, three children, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. A celebration of his life will take place one month from today on June 1 at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Brecksville. Calling hours will be from 10:45-11:45 a.m. with services to follow.

Doug Adair Obituary

A member of the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame, Adair interviewed a number of notable newsmakers, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy and several U.S. presidents.

Former Cleveland and Columbus news anchor Doug Adair died Monday in Pleasanton, Calif., of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Adair was 89.

Born in Xenia, Adair was a Northwestern University graduate and served in the Air Force in the Korean War.

He started his broadcast career in Dayton but moved in 1958 to WJW in Cleveland, where he was a reporter and an anchor.

Adair and Joel Daly became the first two-man anchor team to report news from the same desk.

He moved to WKYC in 1970 and became a staple in Cleveland broadcasting until his 1983 move to WCMH in Columbus.

The height of his popularity in Cleveland came during his marriage to fellow WKYC anchor Mona Scott. Al Roker was the best man at the couple’s wedding in 1980.

The couple went to the Columbus market together and divorced in 1992 after 13 years. Adair went on to marry Jean, a former 27-year Franciscan nun who he met in the Columbus suburb of Dublin.

When Adair retired from the station in 1994, he was Ohio’s longest-serving TV news anchor.

″[He] relished his role to report on the important societal and civic issues of the day,” said his grandson James Adair, who lives in Akron. “Despite his many honors, [his] biggest thrill was meeting the many viewers that invited him into their homes on a nightly basis.

“He loved being a trusted friend and a part of their lives, which was evident when watching him personally connect with each fan that he met.”

Adair received local and national accolades for his series “The Crisis in Christianity” and his “Clothes for Christmas” campaign for needy kids.

In his private life, Adair enjoyed golfing and owned racehorses over the years.

He is survived by his wife, Jean, three children, and five grandchildren.

There will be calling hours from 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. June 1 with a service to follow at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, where he was a founder, at 9549 Highland Drive in Brecksville.

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Doug Adair and Mona

Doug Adair and Mona Scott are Columbus’ really nice news team. When he reports an auto fatality, he tells us it’s a “terrible, terrible thing.” When she tells us about a kidnapping or about someone left homeless after a disaster, there is compassion in her eye, in her voice, in her whole manner.

A put-on? Oh, no, Doug and Mona are … really nice people, really.

Remember that nice talk with Channel 4′s sports anchor Jimmy Crum about the nice fish Doug caught? And the nice way they ask Jym Ganahl if the weather is going to be nice? And how nice they smile? At each other. And at us.

It’s really nice. So nice in fact that critics—the fiends—have jumped all over them for it. One man said they were the “Mr. Rogers and Miss Linda—of the Romper Room—of television news.” And another insisted they were “too sweet even for Columbus.”

Doug and Mona try to ignore such criticism. After all, in the first month, they were together as a team, the station finished a solid second in the ratings. “There isn’t any reason why we can’t overtake WBNS-TV,” says Doug, referring to the number-one news channel.

Doug and Mona have been a TV team since 1976; married since 1980. They met in Cleveland, where she went from Columbus after having worked at all three commercial television stations here.

A minister’s daughter, Mona’s start on TV came when the Northwest Christian Church in Upper Arlington decided to put together a half-hour religious program, to be broadcast on WTVN-TV every Sunday in the early ’70s. She was the “star,” and the program lasted about a year and a half. Then she went to WBNS-TV, where she had her own children’s show for two or three months. Then they replaced me with cartoons, she says. “They were only paying me $25 a week, but cartoons were even cheaper.”

Mona spent a period doing freelance voice work, then became a booth announcer at Channel 4. After just a couple of weeks at that job, she was promoted and became the weather person, making $9,000 a year. Along the way, she had married and had two children.

In 1976, a call came from WKYC-TV, the NBC-owned and -operated station in Cleveland, and she and her family moved as she became the KYC weather person. Her salary was better: $25,000. And she met Doug Adair.

“We met in the studio,” Doug remembers. “We were doing promos for her. In the beginning, she wasn’t very good … and she was replacing someone who shouldn’t have been taken off the air.” Mona says: “It was not loved at first sight.”

Mona was new and young and scared. Doug was a Cleveland television institution. For 12 years, he had worked at the CBS affiliate there. In 1970, he had made a jump to WKYC-TV, at the then-unheard-of salary of $65,000 a year. He had been the top-rated anchor when he was at his original station; the WKYC management hoped he could bring his audience along and help their third-place rating.

He didn’t. In recent years, Adair was still one of the most recognized names and faces on Cleveland television, but the station’s ratings started to sag even lower. The addition of Mona to the news show, first as a weather person, then, in 1979, as Doug’s co-anchor, was one more effort to boost ratings. Cleveland media experts say it never really helped.

“WKYC is traditionally last in the ratings,” says Bill Hickey, for 16 years the TV critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “It was last when Doug Adair went there, it was last when he left and it will be last when he and I are in our graves.” Yet, he adds, Doug and Mona did have a hard-core following. They worked well together. They were a good team on the set.

They began to become a team off the set. Mona divorced in 1977; Doug in 1978. He had three grown children from that marriage. “Doug, the sportscaster and I often went to dinner together,” Mona recalls. “Doug insisted. And we got to be very close. But we had a friendship no more than that—for years. Our first official date was in January 1980.” Their marriage came 11 months later.

Clevelanders loved it. “Little old ladies thought they were marvelously romantic,” Hickey says.

The station loved it, too. WKYC even shot tape of Doug and Mona’s wedding reception, which later ran as a special (beaten in the ratings by, among other things, “Popeye” and “Woody Woodpecker”).

But by 1982, the station’s love had faded. The team was split up, with Mona given her own news and feature show at 5:30 p.m. (called “5:30”) and Doug made what was euphemistically termed a “field anchor” at 11 p.m.

“WKYC moved Judd Hambrick in as anchor at 11 p.m.,” Hickey says. “He was young, good looking. … Doug had his age [he’s now 54] going against him. When gray started tinging his hair, the station didn’t really care if he stayed or left. It had already milked him for everything it could.” Mona, who’s now 37, was another story. “She was just coming into her own. … I know Channel 3 didn’t want her to go.”

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Doug Adair Cleveland

Doug Adair, a long-lasting TV commentator in the Cleveland region who got his beginning at WJW Channel 8 during the 1950s, has passed on at 89 years old, as indicated by reports.

Relatives tell the Columbus Dispatch that Adair passed on Monday in Pleasanton, California, in view of intricacies from Alzheimer’s malady.

As indicated by WCMH Channel 4, Adair was conceived May 29, 1929, in Xenia, Ohio, and moved on from Northwestern University. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War.

His communicate profession started in Dayton. Adair turned into a columnist for WJW Channel 8 out of 1958, at that point turned into a co-grapple on the station’s “City Camera News” appear in 1964. He collaborated with Joel Daly to progress toward becoming to initial two-man stay group in Cleveland to report news from a similar work area, and it turned into the most-stared at the TV news program in the city.

He joined WKYC Channel 3 of every 1970 and co-moored the nightly news program. Adair in the long run wedded co-grapple Mona Scott and they progressed toward becoming on-air pair until they moved to Columbus to stay WCMH in 1983. They separated in the mid-1990s.

Doug Adair Awards and Honors

He has received a number of awards and honors for his various works in television news. Some of them are:

• Best TV News Writer by the state of Ohio.
• The Distinguished Service Award of the Society of Professional Journalists.
• The National Faith and Freedom Award from Religious Heritage of America for his work on The Crisis in Christianity
• The Catholic Church’s National Gabriel Award for his work on The Crisis in Christianity
• Named as Cleveland’s Outstanding Citizen by the Holy Name Society
• First Bishop’s Award of the Episcopal Church due to his massive efforts on behalf of needy children in Cleveland and his “Clothes for Christmas Campaign.”

Doug Adair Net Worth

Adair sits at an approximate net worth of $3 Million as of 2019. He has earned his net worth from his career as a television news anchor and journalist.

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Doug Adair Journalist

He started as a journalist in Dayton in the early ’50s. Some years later, he moved to Cleveland and joined WJW-TV, an affiliate to CBS as a reporter and news anchor. In 1964, he was paired with Joel Daly and together they co-anchored City Camera News, the first two-man television newscast in Cleveland. City Camera News equipped reporters with Polaroid instant cameras, allowing them to take pictures that can be used on the air. Around 1968, the two reporters got jobs at WLS-TV in Chicago. Joel Daly accepted the job whereas Doug Adair was inclined to stay in Cleveland.

During his time in WLS-TV in Cleveland, he had worked with notable people like the radio and television personality, horror host, and announcer Ernie Anderson, legendary Cleveland meteorologist Dick Goddard, and the duo, Bob “Hoolihan” Wells and “Big Chuck” Schodowski. He left WJW-TV and joined NBC News in 1970 as a co-anchor for the evening news program at WKYC-TV. Here, he worked with notable news anchors like Virgil Dominic, Dave Patterson, and Judd Hambrick. He also met the future Today Show meteorologist Al Roker; and Mona Scott, a reporter-turned-weathercaster-turned anchor who he later married.

He next moved to Colombus in 1983 to take on a role as an anchor for WCMH-TV, Colombus’ NBC affiliate. Several months later, he was joined by Mona Scott and they began an on-air partnership that pushed forward WCMH’s evening newscasts to becoming the most-watched in Columbus. However, in 1990, the couple got divorced both on and off-air. He kept working at WCMH for four years after the divorce then retired from TV news. Two years before his retirement, he was inducted into the Broadcasters hall of fame in 1992.