Career
Miltner"s association with the then-National Broadcasting Company-owned Cleveland outlet began with its radio station, WTAM, in 1947, where he frequently appeared as a singer. When in 1948 National Broadcasting Company launched its television station, originally called WNBK on channel 4, Miltner joined as announcer and newscaster. He was reportedly one of the first to interview survivors of the Bataan Death March.
He remained with the station all through its nine-year (1956-1965) run under Westinghouse Broadcasting ownership as KYW-television, and stayed after National Broadcasting Company was forced back to Cleveland in 1965.
After the station adopted its current call letters of WKYC-television, Miltner was one of the first hosts (with Bud Dancy and Linda Hunt) of a mid-afternoon show, Three on the Town, which ran with a succession of hosts through 1968. He continued, over the years, as a live booth announcer with channel 3, to the point where he became known as the "Voice of WKYC." In his final years with the station, he was the opening announcer for the morning show Department of Administration and Management Cleveland.
He retired from WKYC in 1986. Miltner died in Cuyahoga County, Ohio of lung cancer at age 73.
