Mrs. Orien Reid Nix, 79, a former Cheltenham Township resident, retired Hall of Fame reporter for KYW-TV and WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, owner of Consumer Connection media consulting company, and former chair of the international board of the Alzheimer’s Association, died Tuesday, June 17, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at Wyncote Place assisted living. She was 79.

Mrs. Reid Nix worked as a consumer service and investigative TV reporter from 1973 to her retirement in 1998, her obituary says. She became a household name for NBC10’s The Market Basket Report, which compared food prices at local groceries in the 1970s and ’80s, and earned several Emmy nominations and awards from the Philadelphia Press Association, Institute of Food Technologists, Woman’s Day magazine, and other organizations.

She was also a social worker for the School District of Philadelphia in the early 1970s and founded Consumer Connection as a media consultant company in 1999, her obituary said.

In 2018, she was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame. Her acceptance speech is below:

Visitation with the family is to be from 9 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday, June 28, at Bethlehem Baptist Church, 712 Penllyn Pike, Spring House, Pa. 19477. Celebrations of her life are to follow. A funeral service is to be at noon.

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