Alvin Saltzman fell victim to a massive brain annuerism on July 20, 1999 and passed away on Thursday July 22, 1999.All the bears everywhere will miss Al very much.
Al's Bears
This is Alvin Saltzman.Al was the chief engineer at Channel 31 in New YorkMost chief engineers have other engineers on staff.Al has Bears.

Orson
This is Orson, with an Henry, a clerical bear friend.Al's Bears are all over channel 31. Orson is shown here wearing safety glasses.Al says that"Orson sees himself as the bear in charge" Orson just got back from a trip to UniversalStudios Hollywood in Los Angeles, during early December of 1998.Orson is a well traveled bear.

Hiram
Up there on the cabinet by the first aid kit and above the Bird wattmeter is Hiram. Hiram lives at the transmitter most of the time too. Hiram is named for Hiram Beck, a broadcast engineer from the past, who worked for WPIX in New York.

Eddie
This is Eddie. Eddie is named for Eddie Kazursky, a late broadcast engineer that used to work for WNJU in New Jersey.Eddie was really good at keeping the 2" quad tape machines running.Eddie has been exiled to the transmitter of late.

Chuck
I don't have a picture of Chuck. Chuck is a polar bear with a baseball cap that he wears backwards. Chuck ridesin the station Jeep, to go check on the downlink over in East Orange, New Jersey. And, there's Commander Bear,a Star Trek bear from the Las Vegas Hilton.Not all of Al's staff are bears, like this one looking at the Hudson River from the roof of World Trade 1 in December, 1999. But most of Al's staff are bears. I'd say it is at least a 3 to 1 ratio, bears to people.<