He served for four years in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War before earning a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1956 from Pennsylvania State University.
Bill Kuster's broadcast career began with a six-month period at WARM (AM) in Scranton as a substitute game show host and weatherman.
[2] After he left KYW in 1979, he moved to Denver, Colorado, station KUSA-TV.
He continued the tradition of his Kuster Garden in Denver and expanded it to enlist a restaurateur to prepare meals with the annual harvest for Denver-area homeless shelters.
[4] The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Kuster posthumously into their Hall of Fame in 2008.