ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Weather Longtime WPTA Weathercaster Jay Walker Dies at 74 By Merrill Knox on Jun. 8, 2012 - 2:54 PM Jay Walker, a longtime weathercaster for Fort Wayne ABC-affiliate WPTA, has died. He was 74. Walker spent 30 years, from 1976 to 2006, as a weathercaster for WPTA, from 1976 to 2006. “Even though the weather was really impor ...