Jerry Foster, who became Phoenix’s first airborne TV news personality and whose dramatic rescues garnered high ratings, has died. He was 82.

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Jerry Foster, a pioneer in the Valley’s broadcast journalism industry, has died at age 82. Jerry was a helicopter reporter for 3TV in the 1970s and inspired many news ...

Some saw the helicopter pilot as a hero; others as a rule-bending hotdog. But all watched, and Foster became one of the highest-profile and highest-rated personalities in the Phoenix market during ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — For residents who lived through or grown up in the Valley since the 1970s, Jerry Foster should be a familiar name. Though he wasn’t the first helicopter reporter ...