Slim Bryant is a country guitarist and songwriter with a performance career stretching back over 75 years. At age 99, he is known by many Pittsburghers for having performed on the first television program to air in this city, a musical variety show broadcast live on WDTV (later to become KDKA TV) from the Syria Mosque in Oakland in 1949. 

Read more about Slim Bryant at The New Old Times: Old Time in the Media  

Rick Sebak profiles Slim Bryant in a special report for OnQ viewers tonight at 7:30 p.m. (Thur., 12/13/07)  WQED TV, Ch 13, Pittsburgh