Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille was Pittsburgh's horror TV host from 1964 to 1983 on WIIC, Channel 11 (now WPXI). Like many such personalities across the country, Cardille had other jobs at the TV station and took the movie host job as a side gig. So popular was??Chiller Theatre,??Channel 11 ran it instead of??Saturday Night Live??for five years, forcing fans of that show to watch it on WJAC, Channel 6, from Johnstown, PA. Chilly Billy was also the inspiration for the character of Count Floyd on??SCTV, created by.??Joe Flarherty, a Pittsburgh native.
